voluntary
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
voluntary
21 years of 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 ...
www.exxun.com/Benin/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-23 years of age; eligible men required to register for conscription as needed into the Bermuda Regiment, which is largely voluntary; term of service 39 months (2007)
www.exxun.com/Bermuda/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)
www.exxun.com/Bhutan/h_ml.html
voluntary
... 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
voluntary
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
voluntary
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
voluntary
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
voluntary
... 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 professionals; women were allowed ...
www.exxun.com/Brazil/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age (est.) for voluntary military service; non-Malays are ineligible to serve (2007)
www.exxun.com/Brunei/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 9 months; as of May 2006, 67% of the Bulgarian Army comprised of professional soldiers; conscription ended as of 1 January ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for voluntary military service for both sexes; forced conscription of children, although officially prohibited, reportedly continues (2007)
www.exxun.com/Burma/h_ml.html
voluntary
16 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; children as young as 10 years of age have been conscripted into the armed forces; the enrollment of children is still not ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; the government makes periodic calls for volunteers (2006)
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/h_ml.html
voluntary
16-34 years of age for voluntary military service; women comprise approximately 11% of Canada's armed forces (2006)
www.exxun.com/Canada/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2006)
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-45 years of age for voluntary male and female military service, although the right to compulsory recruitment is retained; service obligation - 12 months for Army, 22 months for Navy and Air Force ...
www.exxun.com/Chile/h_ml.html
voluntary
... of age for selective compulsory military service, with 24-month service obligation; no minimum age for voluntary service (all officers are volunteers); 18-19 years of age for women high school graduates who ...
www.exxun.com/China/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-24 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; service obligation - 18 months (2004)
www.exxun.com/Colombia/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for voluntary military service; women allowed to serve (2007)
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/h_ml.html
voluntary
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2008)
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary service; 6-month conscript service obligation; full conversion to professional military service by 2010 (2006)
www.exxun.com/Croatia/h_ml.html
voluntary
... of age for compulsory military service for all Greek Cypriot males; 17 years of age for voluntary service; females are not conscripted; age of military eligibility 17 to 50; length of normal ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/h_ml.html
voluntary
18-28 years of age for voluntary and 19-28 for compulsory military service (2008)
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/h_ml.html
