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Source: https://www.portugalresident.com/law-underway-to-conscript-special-reserve-of-18-35-year-olds/
Law underway to conscript ‘special reserve’ of 18-35 year olds
By Natasha Donn -
17th April 2020
A law is being prepared to define a “reserve” of young Portuguese men and women, aged from 18-35, who could be exceptionally recruited “in terms to be defined”.
The dispatch coming from the Ministry of Defence justifies the measure by saying that “it is more and more expected that situations requiring the effective use of the Armed Force will occur”.
Signed by defence minister Jo?o Gomes Cravinho, the text outlines situations like the combat of forest fires and the Covid-19 pandemic that have involved Civil Protection to the extent that it could do with more ‘boots on the ground’....
Law underway to conscript ‘special reserve’ of 18-35 year olds
By Natasha Donn -
17th April 2020
A law is being prepared to define a “reserve” of young Portuguese men and women, aged from 18-35, who could be exceptionally recruited “in terms to be defined”.
The dispatch coming from the Ministry of Defence justifies the measure by saying that “it is more and more expected that situations requiring the effective use of the Armed Force will occur”.
Signed by defence minister Jo?o Gomes Cravinho, the text outlines situations like the combat of forest fires and the Covid-19 pandemic that have involved Civil Protection to the extent that it could do with more ‘boots on the ground’....
