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According to her, 337 recruits came to the King Mindaugas Hussar Battalion of the Iron Wolf Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Panevėžys.
During 2020, 3,352 recruits, including 137 girls, began serving in units of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
More than half: 54 percent. – 45 percent are volunteers. made up of young people registered on the lists who wish to join the service as a priority. Slightly more than a percentage of all recruits entered service on a mandatory basis.
Although the epidemiological situation in the country is extremely difficult this year, COVID-19 did not have a significant impact on the decision of young people to voluntarily opt for permanent compulsory military service and thus fulfill their constitutional duty. This year, from 8 to just over 1 percent. the number of recruits (…) has decreased, ”the report quotes Arūnas Balčiūnas, Director of the Military Conscription and Recruitment Service of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
According to the Armed Forces, in 2020 the Military Service and Recruitment Service received a total of 6,970 applications for permanent mandatory initial military service, of which 2,725 were voluntary applicants and 4,245 were on draft lists but sought priority service.
After the mandatory procedures of the Military Medical Examination Commission, more than half – about 4 thousand. the youth were recognized as eligible to assume their duties.
Most of the volunteers were registered in the Kaunas, Vilnius and Šiauliai regions.
In 2021, the call lists will be compiled on January 7. It is planned to call 3,828 young people in the coming years.
Recruit lists will be compiled from recruits born in 1998–2002 (inclusive) and graduates between the ages of 23 and 26 who have been deferred due to study at an institution of higher education.
Next year, the recruits will serve in 19 units of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The first departure of the 2021 units is scheduled for March 29.
Starting this year, recruits between the ages of 18 and 23 are called up for permanent mandatory initial military service.
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