Official 2024 Military Service Enlistment Schedule: Exemptions for Citizens from Military Service Duty in 2024
Official Military Service Enlistment Schedule for 2024?
On November 6, 2023, the Ministry of National Defense issued Official Dispatch 4267/BQP-TM 2023 regarding the selection and call of citizens for military service in 2024.
According to Official Dispatch 4267/BQP-TM 2023, the time for military service enlistment and induction in 2024 is as follows:
Implementing the Law on Military Service 2015; Decision 82/QD-TTg 2023 of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam on calling citizens for military service in 2024; accordingly, in 2024, the selection and call of citizens for enlistment (recruiting troops) will be conducted in one batch; the time for receiving and inducting troops will be conducted over 3 days, from February 25 to February 27, 2024 (from January 16 to January 18 of the Year of the Dragon, Giap Thin).
Thus, in 2024, the selection and call of citizens for enlistment will be conducted in one batch.
The official schedule for military service enlistment in 2024 is as follows:
Depending on each locality, the time for receiving and inducting troops will be conducted over 3 days from February 25, 2023 to February 27, 2024 (from January 16, 2024 to January 18, 2024 of the Year of the Dragon, Giap Thin).
Official Military Service Enlistment Schedule for 2024? Which cases are exempt from military service in 2024? (Image from Internet)
Which cases are exempt from military service in 2024?
According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 41 of the Law on Military Service 2015 supplemented by Point c, Clause 1, Article 49 of the Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces 2019, the regulations on cases eligible for temporary deferment from enlistment are as follows:
- Not physically fit for active service according to the conclusion of the Health Examination Council;
- The only laborer directly caring for relatives who are unable to work or of non-working age; families suffering severe loss of lives and properties due to accidents, natural disasters, or dangerous epidemics, confirmed by the commune-level People's Committee;
- One child of severely wounded soldiers, persons contaminated with toxic chemicals reducing their working capacity from 61% to 80%;
- Having siblings who are non-commissioned officers, soldiers serving in the active-duty military; non-commissioned officers, soldiers performing their duty in the People's Police;
- Persons under resettlement or population dispersion projects within the first 3 years moved to especially difficult communes as per the State's economic and social development projects decided by the provincial or higher-level People's Committee;
- Officials and public employees, youth volunteers mobilized to work in areas with particularly difficult economic - social conditions according to the law provisions;
- Currently studying in secondary education institutions; currently enrolled in full-time undergraduate programs of higher education institutions, full-time college programs of vocational education institutions during a training course of a training level;
- Standing militia forces.
Citizens who fall under the above categories are eligible for a temporary deferment from enlistment in 2024.
Additionally, the cases regulated in Clause 2, Article 41 of the Law on Military Service 2015 are exempt from military service enlistment in 2024, including:
- Children of martyrs, children of first-class wounded soldiers;
- One sibling of a martyr;
- One child of a second-class wounded soldier; one child of severely wounded soldiers reducing their working capacity from 81% or more; one child of persons contaminated with toxic chemicals reducing their working capacity from 81% or more;
- People performing cryptographic work who are not in the military, People's Police;
- Officials and public employees, youth volunteers mobilized to work in particularly difficult economic - social conditions according to law provisions for 24 months or more.
Also, citizens eligible for temporary deferment from enlistment will be called for enlistment if there is no longer reason for deferment.
Citizens eligible for deferment or exemption from enlistment, if volunteering, will be considered for selection and called for enlistment.
Who must perform military service in 2024?
Based on Clauses 1 and 2, Article 4 of the Law on Military Service 2015, the provisions regarding military service are as follows:
Military Service Obligation
1. Military service is a glorious duty of citizens to serve in the Vietnam People's Army. Performing military service includes active service and service in the reserve forces of the Vietnam People's Army.
2. Citizens within the age range for performing military service, regardless of ethnicity, social class, belief, religion, educational level, occupation, or residence, must perform military service as defined by this Law.
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Military service is a glorious duty of citizens to serve in the Vietnam People's Army. Performing military service includes active service and service in the reserve forces of the Vietnam People's Army.
Citizens within the age range for performing military service, regardless of ethnicity, social class, belief, religion, educational level, occupation, or residence, must perform military service as defined.
Furthermore, based on the provisions of Article 6 of the Law on Military Service 2015 regarding the obligation of citizens for military service as follows:
Active Duty Service Obligations
1. Male citizens within the age range for performing military service are obliged to serve in the Vietnam People's Army.
2. Female citizens within the age range for performing military service during peacetime, if volunteering and the army has the need, can serve in active duty.
Thus, based on the above regulations, male citizens must perform military service within the age range defined by law. In other words, this is a mandatory obligation for male citizens.
For female citizens, the Law on Military Service 2015 expands the regulation, allowing female citizens within the age range defined by law, if volunteering and the army has the need, to enlist. This regulation does not mandate that female citizens within the age range for military service must enlist. Female citizens during peacetime enlist on a voluntary basis and are accepted by the state.
The age range for enlistment is currently regulated in Clause 1, Article 4 of Circular 148/2018/TT-BQP as follows:
+ Citizens aged 18 to 25.
+ Male citizens who have undergone training at college or university levels and have been granted deferment during one training course at one level of training will be selected and called for enlistment up to 27 years of age.
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