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  2. List of enlistment age by country - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Children in the military - Wikipedia

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    [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]

  4. Military recruitment - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Recruitment in the British Army - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 - Wikipedia

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    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)

  7. History of children in the military - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Child soldiers in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Conscription in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.