ALL GEORGIAN MALES TO HAVE MANDATORY MILITARY TRAINING

Armenpress
Dec 05 2006

TBILISI, DECEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: Georgia’s president Mikhail asked a
parliament committee on defense and security issues to draft a bill
on mandatory 18-day military training of all males aged 27-50.

Under the bill all males between 27-50 will have to spend 18 days every
year in military camps to refresh their war skills. The committee
chairman, Givi Targamadze, was quoted by Georgian media as saying
the bill was prompted by ‘increasing threats.’ The only exception
are clergymen, court judges and students. The bill also suggests that
those students who will have this course for 3 consecutive years will
be expected from mandatory military service. Failure to turn in will
be considered as desertion.

Georgia’s defense ministry has set up three special camps to train
reservists. The bill is expected to go through in several days.