conscripts

The pool of potential conscripts is so tainted that they would seriously impair the ability of the armed forces to accomplish their missions.

Sound Politics: To Draft or Not to Draft 2006

A new category of soldiers called "single-term conscripts" will discharge the total time of service of about 300 days of active duty in one go.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

A new category of soldiers called "single-term conscripts" will discharge the total time of service of about 300 days of active duty in one go.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

As even some Russian military officers admit, it is their infantry, composed mostly of teenage conscripts, that is unprepared for the war.

'Like A Meat Grinder' 2008

Even the cathedral, even the company of half-starved conscripts that straggled past him in the tail of three generals, dismayed him no longer, for the cathedral was but the symbol of a frozen Christianity which he need no longer fear, and the conscripts were his people -- his -- or soon would be.

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But the idea of conscripts is an integral part of German identity, for reasons having to do with Germany's troubled relationship with war.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

The Spetsnaz are mostly conscripts, which is in sharp contrast to Western career commandos.

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Christian boys were not "conscripts" as in the Western sense of draftees; they were required to be handed over on pain of death to them, their families and their villages/towns.

In the harem 2006

And see, too, what kind of conscripts the Tempter draws from the ranks of respectable and especially of fashionable life.

Humanity in the City 1847

The row over foreign secretary 's attack on the Conservative party chairman, Eric Pickles, for suggesting that Latvians who had joined the Waffen SS volunteer legion were only "conscripts"

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