word | | Military service age and obligation |
| deployed | Luxembourg | ... 17-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 are not deployed into combat or with peacekeeping missions; no conscription; Luxembourg citizen or EU citizen with 3 ... |
| deployed | Mongolia | ... months in land or air defense forces or police; a small portion of Mongolian land forces (2.5 percent) is comprised of contract soldiers; women cannot be deployed overseas for military operations (2006 |
| deployed | New Zealand | 17 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed until the age of 18; no conscription (2008) |
| deployed | Pakistan | 17-23 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed for combat until age 18; the Pakistani Air Force and Pakistani Navy have inducted their first female pilots and sailors ... |
| determining | Botswana | 18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown (2001) |
| draft | Russia | 18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; service obligation - 1 year; reserve obligation to age 50; as of ... |
| drawn | Suriname | 18 years of age (est.); recruitment is voluntary, with personnel drawn almost exclusively from the Creole community (2007) |
| Druzes | 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 ... |
| duty | Benin | ... age for compulsory and voluntary military service; in practice, volunteers may be taken at the age of 18; both sexes are eligible for military service; conscript tour of duty - 18 months (2006 |
| duty | Georgia | 18 to 34 years of age for compulsory and voluntary active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2005) |
| duty | Malawi | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; standard obligation is 2 years of active duty and 5 years of reserve service (2007) |
| duty | Nicaragua | 17 years of age for voluntary military service; tour of duty 18-36 months (2008) |
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