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United Kingdom – 18 (voluntary; age 16 with parental consent; age 17 for admission to an officer program; Nepalese citizens can join the Brigade of Gurkhas at age 17) United States – 18 (voluntary registration), 18 (voluntary service; age 17 with parental consent), 17 (compulsory militia service under 10 U.S. Code § 246) [3]
Military age: 17 with parental consent, 18 for voluntary service. [b] Conscription: Male only (inactive since 1973) Available for military service: 17 million [4], age 18–25 (2016) Reaching military age annually: 2 million [5] (2016) Active personnel: 1,374,125 [6] Reserve personnel: 849,450 [7] Deployed personnel: 170,000 [citation needed ...
[152] [153] [154] The committee on the Rights of the Child has recommended that the US raise the minimum age of enlistment to 18. [152] In negotiations on the OPAC treaty during the 1990s the US joined the UK in strongly opposing a global minimum enlistment age of 18. As a consequence the treaty specified a minimum age of 16. [34]
The following list projects the total number of people around the globe that are eligible for military service.The estimates are drawn from demographic projections in the CIA World Factbook as of 2009.
Military age: 17 with parental consent, 18 for voluntary service. [b] Conscription: Only males register at age 18 (conscription inactive since 1973) Available for military service: 15 million (2021) [7], age 18–25: Active personnel: 1,328,000 [8] Reserve personnel: 799,500 [9] Expenditure; Budget: $816.7 billion (2023) [10] Percent of GDP
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This is a list of active duty United States senior enlisted leaders and advisors serving in the uniformed services of the United States. This list is intended to cover senior enlisted leaders and advisors attached to only three-star and four-star positions, with selected two-star [ a ] and civilian positions [ b ] included as well.
The service takes as long as 12 months in the new law project with a draft targeting Moroccan males and females alike in the age range of 19–25 with an exception for people with a medical or psychological condition, college students can delay the date of their enlistment thus being able to serve at the end of their university course. [112] [113]