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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]
[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]
State armed forces set minimum and maximum ages for recruitment. In practice, most military recruits are young adults; for example, in 2013 the average age of a United States Army soldier beginning initial training was 20.7 years. [4]
The minimum recruitment age is 16 years, [35] after the end of GCSEs, although soldiers may not serve on operations below 18 years. As of November 2018 [update] , the maximum age to enlist as a Regular soldier is 35 years and 6 months, and for Reserve soldiers, the maximum age is 49.
Nominally available for limited military service, but below standards for general military service (conscientious objector and applicable to ages 18 to 25 only). May 26, 1945: Oct 27, 1946: I-A-O (H) Nominally available for noncombatant military service, age 38 to 44 inclusive. Mar 6, 1943: Oct 5, 1944: I-A-O (L)
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 ...
However, after the Union army was driven out of Richmond in the Peninsula campaign, and after the Confederate Army began to march to Washington, Lincoln issued a call for 300,000 three-year volunteers. [5] Boys had many of the same motives for joining the military as their adult counterparts did.
In colonial times, the Thirteen Colonies used a militia system for defense. Colonial militia laws—and after independence, those of the United States and the various states—required able-bodied males to enroll in the militia, to undergo a minimum of military training, and to serve for limited periods of time in war or emergency.