word | | Military service age and obligation |
| candidates | Sierra Leone | 17 years 6 months of age for male and female voluntary military service (younger with parental consent); no conscription; candidates must be HIV negative (2009) |
| candidates | United Arab Emirates | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; 18 years of age for officers and women; no conscription; 16-22 years of age for candidates for the UAE Naval College (2011) |
| card | Kenya | ... obligation (7 years for Kenyan Navy); applicants must be Kenyan citizens and provide a national identity card (obtained at age 18) and a school-leaving certificate; women serve under the same terms ... |
| care | Niger | 17-21 years of age for selective compulsory or voluntary military service; enlistees must be Nigerien citizens and unmarried; 2-year service term; women may serve in health care (2009) |
| 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 |
| certificate | Ghana | 18-26 years of age for voluntary military service, with basic education certificate; no conscription (2011) |
| certificate | Kenya | ... Kenyan citizens and provide a national identity card (obtained at age 18) and a school-leaving certificate; women serve under the same terms and conditions as men; mandatory retirement at age 55 ... |
| chaplaincy | Korea, South | ... service; women, in service since 1950, admitted to 7 service branches, including infantry, but excluded from artillery, armor, anti-air, and chaplaincy corps; HIV-positive individuals are exempt from military service (2011 |
| children | Burma | ... including doctors, engineers, mechanics) serve up to 3 years; service terms may be extended to 5 years in an officially declared emergency; forced conscription of children, although officially prohibited, reportedly continues (2011 |
| children | Somalia | note: since 2005, the UN has listed the Transitional Federal Government and its allied militias as persistent violators in recruiting children (2010) |
| children | South Sudan | ... anyone younger than 18 years of age would be mustered out of the army, but 900 children were estimated to still be active at the end of that year; in April 2011 ... |
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