Talk:Military of Brazil
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Yes, there is. The constitution mandates military service, but what ends up happening in practice is that the overwhelming majority of people are dismissed for either medical purposes or "recruiting excess" because the army can't take every single 18 year-old.--Dali-Llama 12:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- can you explain it more please?
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- For males, not enlisting in the year when one reaches 18 years of age constitues a military crime, according to the constitution. This is the only sourceable information I can give you at the moment.
- To try to explain further, while every male enlists, few are actually recruited, or drafted, so to speak. The military has something of a quota to reach every year, and while millions of men become fit for military service each year, the army ends up drafting around 80,000 soldiers every year, which I was told by my lieutenant when I served, voluntarily. By the way, the age for voluntary service is lower than 18, 16 I believe. These 80,000 might be chosen ramdomly, but the army can be somewhat selective, and the officers usually ask the civilians who are enlisting themselves for those that are actually willing to serve, and they might also discriminate based on physical stature, and be condescending to those who are in the middle of studies or have some limiting medical condition. Those who enlist and are not drafted, become part of the 3rd category reserve. Those who serve the compulsory 1 year period become the 1st category reserve, and are more likely to be drafted first in the case of war. Usually one remains in the reserve for a period of 5 years before being permanently discharged.
- Hope some of this helps. PHF 21:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I have something that makes me curious about the people reaction.
- does people who don`t go to the military because of reason that exist by law and are exempted from service because of does reasons.
- such as medical condition,to much personal,pacifist.social problems.
- do they get discriminated in the civilian life because they didn`t do military service.
- such as people will not be their friends, don`t give them a job, take their driving licence.
- would they be called shirkers and people will think them no to be a citizens anymore.
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- People don't suffer discrimination in their day to day lives because you can't tell if they enlisted or not by simply looking at them. I think nobody really cares and the military is not a prominent thing in the normal citizens life and is usually resumed to the tiresome bureaucracy of the many hours it takes to enlist. Most people aren't aware of the armed forces and it is seldom that you see someone involved. If anything, people will brag for having relatives in the army who by some shady manoeuvre helped them get discharged. However, to have a regular job, and maybe some other things such as acquiring a driver's license, passport, voting, whatever I am not really sure, you must present documents to prove that you are ok with your military duties. I think even to enroll college that might be necessary. Otherwise you won't be able to do most of those things and the work will have to be informal. Make sure to sign each of your comments with ~~~~ and use :'s to keep this in an orderly thread fashion. PHF 15:35, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Redundancy
- "The armed forces of Brazil (Portuguese: Forças Armadas do Brasil) are the armed forces of Brazil,"
No, really? --Pikolas 23:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
