The top brass and politicians in the second Yugoslavia loved to say, that Yugoslavia was one of the few countries that had its own defensive military policy, doctrine and strategy. In accordance with that, Yugoslavia had a fully developed system of military education, which educated the personnel for the needs of the general national defense and social self-protection. To understand the system of military education in SFR Yugoslavia, we at least need to know the basic elements of its development path. In general we can say that the postwar development of the Yugoslavian military education had important characteristics of continuity and stability. With an in-depth analysis we can see that certain periods had, depending on changes that have occurred in the basic definitions, minor or major particularities. The article will show the educational path of young (generally between the age of 14 and 22 to 24) boys and girls, who wanted to become NCOs or officers, and were, as they often said themselves, the offspring of the “famous” army.