Mr. Thompson's generation - the teen-agers and 20-somethings born after 1973 - is the first whose fathers never had to face conscription.

In Turkey, all men face conscription for up to 15 months.

The text reels through dozens of ways that young men facing conscription during the Vietnam War could avoid service.

Youths old enough to face conscription into the military held their fingers aloft in an unaccustomed V-sign of peace.

He then started to work as an unskilled laborer before he faced conscription and joined the military in Orosháza.

When he leaves his room, aged 13, Blinkbonny is still a ghost town (albeit one that has a well-stocked butcher), the sky hums with bombers and Billy faces conscription.

Then, facing conscription into the Russian army in the 1880's, the boldest and hardiest fled to the Plains.

He guaranteed that no one would face conscription if voters supported the Liberals.

Since Uchtdorf faced conscription into the newly formed Bundeswehr he chose instead to volunteer for the West German Air Force in 1959, at age 19, to become a fighter pilot.

Under Catherine the Great in 1762, the Russian peasants and Cossacks once again faced increased taxation, heavy military conscription, and grain shortages that had characterized the land before Razin's rebellion.