Military Duty in your Land ?

i ll join on May. I thought special forces for the reasons Xristar wrote but then i loose all the comunication with my work. So i try to join the IT department. Cleaning toilets for the first 6 months and then go to an office near athens. For the greeks who are coming from abroad and wants to stay in Greece permanent they need to join the army for 3 months. It is not much.

Nowadays very few has to do military service in Sweden, around 10% - it used to be 90%. Not many believe the Russians will come anymore, so the requirements have been reduced a lot. The service ranges from 8-15 months, I made my service a few years ago. I certainly don't regret it, but it wasn't the most interesting 8 months of my life.

I think that is particularly true but it depends on the army base were you are paying your duty. Anyway , armie's role is to produce disciplined men into our society ho know the basics . All the others are work of prof's.
The main reason is not that we have lack of manpower but the  postponements.They create big confusion. As i've heard , the graduates of polytechneio( mechanics etc.) were very useful for some duties ,related to their occupation, into the army. Are the prof. soldiers capable enough to accomplish those specific duties?
I'd rather prefer to finish the army until my 19s than waiting until my 27s and stressing myself.


Styrbiorn , your country has its own high - tech weaponry industry. That is very important for you, even more important from recruitment of young soldiers .
You only have to train professionals on how to use them.  

Nothing obligatory here in America, though there is a lot of respect for our troops, and sort of a cult of 'hero' veneration is shown to guys who have been deployed to active service in Combat Zones. I know my buddies in the Marines can't walk into a bar without being offered free rounds all night.

Guys who have been in the service very seldom get in trouble with the law over misdemeanors (and they never get speeding tickets). All the service types I know (firemen, cops, soldiers, sailors, EMTs) have asort of shared-bond, and they help each other out, as well as party together.

However, the reason such veneration and respect is afforded to the troops is because a) they're some of, if not the, best soldiers in the world, and they've earned it, and b) their terms of service are incredibly long by most standards. Officer commissions (regardless of branch) are 8 years. Enlistments are 6 years. That's a very substantial chunk of one's life to give up in defense of their country and countrymen, and people respect that alot, and appreciate it (if they don't, well, some people are scummy).

I could not imagine why anyone would dodge or resist military conscription. I mean, the country you live in provides you with security, education, utilities, infrastructure, etc (everything you need to live by our modern standards, essentially). In a lottery system, if your numbers is picked, I see no reason why a person should be so-self righteous as to refuse. I mean, you have almost a moral obligation; after everything they provided you with, you can't show your gratitude by giving up some 18 months (especially in a country like Germany or the Netherlands; I mean honestly, it's not like you'll ever have to go to war, fer chrissakes)? To me, that seems extraordinarily selfish and implies an inflated feeling of self-importance. I guess Edmund Burke was right: "The age of gallantry and chivalry is dead, and the glory of Europe extinguished forever. [Reflections of the Revolution in France, 1792]"

Cheers.

We do not have a lottery system or anything. We just do not have a draft. Only professionals. It is advertised as a great learning opportunities for people just out of school. You can learn a profession while in payed service for about 4-5 years. Of course nowadays, it is pretty sure you will be send to Uruzgan, Afganistan.

I'm 17 and from Austria. In december I have to go to the FLAK (Anti Airplane gun) brigade. We only have to go for a period of 6 moth to the army. Is it true that austria is not allowed to have artillery systems which have a range over 40 kilometres?

we Turks had to serve in 21.for 15 months.coast guard to mountain commando,its your luck where will you serve.I hope I would be a Tourism Gendermarie in Marmaris.: everything is for the nation!!!

I think in turkey not all go to the army. At least officially Turkey uses like 350,000 of her 670,000 men that come of age annually.