Conscription
Technically all Danish 18-years old males are conscripts (37,897 in 2010), and 53% (2010) were considered suitable for duty. There is no need for all of them so only a few of them serve (5129 in 2010). 91% of the conscripts were volunteers. There were additionally 567 female "conscripts" in 2010.
- Conscripts in the Royal Life Guards serve 8 months, because it's preferable to have conscripts guarding the Queen.
- Conscripts in the horse squadron of the Guard Hussars serve 12 months, because it takes time to learn how to ride a horse.
- Conscripts in the Danish army in general serve 4 months.
- Conscripts on the royal yacht Dannebrog serve 9 months.
- Conscripts in the Danish navy in general serve 4 months.
- Conscripts in the Danish air force serve 4 months.
- Conscripts in the Danish Emergency Management Agency serve 6 months.
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Famous quotes containing the word conscription:
“We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator’s power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (1754–1812)