March 20th, 1936:
Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas sighed and rubbed his eyes, it was getting late, it felt like he'd only made a slight dent in the paperwork that cluttered his desk. Too much to due, and not enough people to do it, or rather not enough qualified people. The various expansions to the Lithuanian army, navy and air force, had left the administrative apparatus of the ministry of defense hard pressed to keep up. The problem was made worse by the fact that the Lithuanian armed forces only had a limited number of experienced personal, and they had already been used up: the staff and service schools were now taxed to the breaking point, trying to train the new people to help run both the administrative structure of the armed forces, and provide the command staffs, unit commanders, etc. for the new units.
Enlarging the establishments of the existing training schools was one way to tackle the problem, but that would only help in the long term, and in the short term it would only make the dreath of qualified personel worse. The Field Marshal leafed through the documents on his desk, although a solution had been suggested by several of the staffs, although it would require some diplomatic foot work by the Foreign Affairs office to make work, assuming the President agreed to the idea of course.
Ah, found it. Žukauskas, thought triamphiantly, as he shifted some of the clutter and found the combined staffs report under his coffee cup. Let's see... . He quickly read through the document again, murmuring the most important conclusion aloud.
"The armed services staffs are of the opinion that existing staff and command personel even argumented with reservists nor existing training establishments will not be able to supply the numbers required. It is recommended, that we seek foreign sources of training or practical experience, via either active recruitment of foreign officers without commands, having Lithuanian cantidates apply to foreign academies or officer/non-commissioned officer transfer training programs..."