GYUMRI INHABITANTS PROUDLY SEE OFF THEIR SONS TO NATIONAL ARMY

Noyan Tapan
May 15 2006

GYUMRI, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The spring call-up has started in Gyumri:
30 conscripts have been already called up for service in the national
army.

According to the Noyan Tapan Gyumri correspondent, the parents had
high spirits and were proud to see off the conscripts gathered in
the yard of the Military Registration and Enlistment Office. “I say
proudly and I do not afraid as I know that the ministers are also
parents, they have sons and see off their sons in the same way,”
many of the parents said. And some of them mentioned: “If neither
our sons nor I and others leave for the military service, who should
serve for our homeland?” As Aram Grigorian, Head of the Call-up
Department of Gyumri Military Registration and Enlistment Office,
informed, various diseases have been revealed as a result of medical
examinations of young men of call-up age this year. At the same time
it was mentioned that the number of young men suffering from diseases
is almost the same as compared with the previous call-ups. According
to A.Grigorian, the number of those evading the call-up and applying
for the alternative military service has considerably decreased this
year compared with the previous years.