word | | Military service age and obligation |
| Bulgarian | Bulgaria | 18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; as of May 2006, 67% of the Bulgarian Army comprised of professional soldiers; conscription ended January 2008; Air Forces and Naval Forces became fully ... |
| cadets | Bahrain | 17 years of age for voluntary military service; 15 years of age for NCOs, technicians, and cadets; no conscription (2008) |
| call | Ethiopia | 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; theoretically, no compulsory military service, but the military can conduct call-ups when necessary and compliance is compulsory (2008) |
| calls | Cameroon | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; the government makes periodic calls for volunteers (2006) |
| Canadian | Canada | ... voluntary military service (with parental consent); 16 years of age for reserve and military college applicants; Canadian citizenship or permanent residence status required; maximum 34 years of age; service obligation 3-9 years ... |
| care | Niger | 17-21 years of age for voluntary military service; 2-year service term; women may serve in health care (2008) |
| career | Brazil | ... 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps (2001 |
| chaplaincy | Korea, South | ... 1950, admitted to 7 service branches, including infantry, but excluded from artillery, armor, anti-air, and chaplaincy corps; some 4,000 women serve as commissioned and noncommissioned officers, approx. 2.3% of all officers ... |
| children | Burma | 18 years of age for voluntary military service for both sexes; forced conscription of children, although officially prohibited, reportedly continues (2007) |
| children | Burundi | 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 ... |
| Christians | Israel | 18 years of age for compulsory (Jews, Druzes) and voluntary (Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; both sexes are obligated to military service; conscript service obligation - 36 months for enlisted men, 21 months ... |
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