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Hundreds of teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription
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The training for the recruits will last two months and will be conducted in barracks in Knin, Slunj and Požega. Half of them volunteered.
Croatia has re-entered the compulsory military service, which was abandoned in 2008, and hundreds of young people have already been present at the houses for the first stages of preparation, reports BBC. The instruction will take place in three locations in Croatia, and recruits must be present at the nearest military unit of their home, where they will receive the equipment ...
The training will cover everything from traditional skills, to drone control, to cyber warfare techniques.
The first conscripts began their compulsory military service in Croatia today. They were accompanied to their barracks by their families, and were greeted in one of the barracks at the start of their training by Croatian Minister of Defence Ivan Anušić and Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Army Tihomir Kundid.
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