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Canada – 18 (voluntary; volunteers can join the Reserves and enter the Military Colleges at age 16, or join the regular forces at age 17 with parental consent) Central African Republic – 18 (voluntary) Chad – 18 (voluntary), 20 (compulsory – men), 21 (compulsory – women) Chile – 18 (voluntary)
[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 Army was shrunk to 82,000 in 2015, 82,000 in 2021, and about 72,000 thereafter. [34] The minimum recruitment age is 16 years, [35] after the end of GCSEs, although soldiers may not serve on operations below 18 years.
This lowered the draft age from 19 to 18 + 1 ⁄ 2, increased active-duty service time from 21 to 24 months, and set the statutory term of military service at a minimum of eight years. Students attending a college or training program full-time could request an exemption, which was extended as long as they were students.
Nominally available for limited military service, but below standards for general military service. May 26, 1945: Nov 27, 1946: I-A (H) Nominally available for military service, age 38 to 44 inclusive. Mar 6, 1943: Oct 5, 1944: I-A (L) Nominally available for limited military service. Jul 15, 1943: Oct 5, 1944: I-A, Remediable
He went into the regular army, and retired in 1909 as the last lieutenant general of his era. He was the father of General Douglas MacArthur. Henry Ware Lawton enlisted at age 18 in 1861 and was a brevet Colonel in 1865; Charles Cleveland Dodge at 20 was a captain in 1861 and a General at 23 in 1863
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In 2003, as the Rwandan military presence in the DRC reduced, so did the demand for child soldiers. [22] The government introduced new legislation to raise the minimum enlistment age 18 and the armed forces stopped recruiting children. [22] Nonetheless, armed groups continued to do so, albeit to a reduced extent, for their operations in the DRC ...