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...Soviet navy demands three years of service; army and air force draftees spend two years in uniform. Although women are not being conscripted, an estimated 10,000 volunteers now serve in such noncombat roles as nurse and clerk. Only about 12% of Soviet males escape military service. Many of these fall below the armed forces' physical and mental standards; others are given hardship waivers to stay home and support infirm parents or wives. Some Western experts believe that it is relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university...
...military, of course, enjoys indirect financial benefits: free medical care (though it is not always readily available and not always first-class); cut-rate prices for food and other items at commissaries and a pension that provides half-pay after 20 years in uniform and three-fourths of base pay after 30 years. But with galloping inflation, these fringes no longer offset low wages. Then, too, most civilian jobs also have attractive fringe benefits...
...such a measure are now before Congress. Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer argues that such benefits should be transferable to the children of those now serving in the AVF. General Meyer believes this would induce many experienced NCOS and officers who were family men to stay in uniform...
...Greece and is followed by time in the reserves. Many West Europeans also volunteer for their country's armed forces, of course; of the 495,000 members of West Germany's Bundeswehr, for example, 270,000 are volunteer, and over half of the 590,000 Frenchmen in uniform joined voluntarily...
...remains enrolled in a university, a French medical student, for instance, can delay his military duty until age 27. In addition, every country excuses those facing particular hardships. Spain exempts sons supporting widowed mothers, and The Netherlands excludes those who already have had two or more brothers in uniform. Men can escape induction for reasons of conscience, but they must perform socially useful tasks. Italian conscientious objectors, for example, may serve in the medical corps or work in a civilian defense plant. Such compassion, however, is unknown in Switzerland, where men continue to drill every year in the standing militia...