military 18-35 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for male or female voluntary service; service obligation 7 months of training, followed by an 8-year reserve obligation (2006) www.exxun.com/Austria/h_ml.html
military men between 18 and 35 are liable for military service; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; length of military service is 18 months and 12 months for university graduates (2006) www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/h_ml.html
military 17 years of age for voluntary military service; 15 years of age for NCOs, technicians, and cadets; no conscription (2008) www.exxun.com/Bahrain/h_ml.html
military ... East Pakistan seceded from its union with West Pakistan in 1971 and was renamed Bangladesh. A military-backed caretaker regime suspended planned parliamentary elections in January 2007 in an effort to reform ... www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/a_fg.html
military 16 years of age for voluntary military service; 17 years of age for officers (both with parental consent); conscription legally possible in emergency, but has never been implemented (2008) www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/h_ml.html
military 18 years of age for voluntary military service (younger requires parental consent); no conscription (2008) www.exxun.com/Barbados/h_ml.html
military 18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2005) www.exxun.com/Belarus/h_ml.html
military 18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription suspended (2008) www.exxun.com/Belgium/h_ml.html
military 18 years of age for voluntary military service; laws allow for conscription only if volunteers are insufficient; conscription has never been implemented; volunteers typically outnumber available positions by 3:1 (2008) www.exxun.com/Belize/h_ml.html
military ... 1872 and achieved independence on 1 August 1960, as the Republic of Benin. A succession of military governments ended in 1972 with the rise to power of Mathieu KEREKOU and the establishment ... www.exxun.com/Benin/a_fg.html
military ... age for compulsory and voluntary military service; in practice, volunteers may be taken at the age of 18; both sexes are eligible for military service; conscript tour of duty - 18 months (2006 www.exxun.com/Benin/h_ml.html
military 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008) www.exxun.com/Bhutan/h_ml.html
military ... volunteers falls short of goal, compulsory recruitment is effected, including conscription of boys as young as 14; 15-19 years of age for voluntary premilitary service, provides exemption from further military service (2008 www.exxun.com/Bolivia/h_ml.html
military ... led international peacekeeping force (IFOR) of 60,000 troops served in Bosnia to implement and monitor the military aspects of the agreement. IFOR was succeeded by a smaller, NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR ... www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/a_fg.html
military 17 years of age for voluntary military service in the Federation and in the Republika Srpska; conscription abolished January 2006; 4-month service obligation (2006) www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/h_ml.html
military 18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown (2001) www.exxun.com/Botswana/h_ml.html
military ... half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers. Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth ... www.exxun.com/Brazil/a_fg.html
military voluntary between 16 and 18 years of age and over 70; compulsory over 18 and under 70 years of age; note - military conscripts do not vote www.exxun.com/Brazil/d_gv.html
military 21-45 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer ... www.exxun.com/Brazil/h_ml.html
military ... between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local immigration order that had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the special military status of Diego Garcia www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/a_fg.html
military archipelago of 55 islands; Diego Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in central Indian Ocean; island is site of joint US-UK military facility www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/b_mp.html
military ... a British High Court ruling, though no timetable has been set; in November 2004, approximately 4,000 UK and US military personnel and civilian contractors were living on the island of Diego Garcia www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/c_pp.html
military ... joint UK-US military facility is located. Construction projects and various services needed to support the military installation are performed by military and contract employees from the UK, Mauritius, the Philippines, and ... www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/e_ec.html
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