They are better paid than conscripts, they get more training and they have higher morale and more esprit de corps.
Sasha's father was one of the 70000 conscripts ordered in to bring in sand to quench the belching nuclear fires.
He shows up at a pub and conscripts the patrons for a two-year tour of duty.
The conscripts were only permitted to be on site for two weeks, during which they might absorb a lifetime dose of radiation.
Do squads or platoons composed solely of contract soldiers perform better than conscripts?
These forces, consisting mostly of state militiamen, volunteers, and conscripts, endured heavy casualties.
In addition, the mobilization of the nation's reserve forces only include retired conscripts rather than retired volunteers.
The success of any campaign to induce volunteers or force conscripts into an army will be decided, to a large extent, by circumstances.
The new army, capitalizing on the advantage of France's vast population, would be made up largely of citizen conscripts.
The most radical workers and peasants, and many of the young conscripts, wanted to use their strength to overthrow the old order.
And what sort of training does this paramilitary police force give such conscripts?
Most armies staffed with conscripts and poorly trained and motivated officers will likewise disappear if hit hard enough.
It would allow Army conscripts who joined the military while in college to earn up to nine university course credits per year.
He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.
We could be front-line conscripts and I'd still have an opportunity to die smiling.
We are not talking teenagers, but trained conscripts and combat veterans.
Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.
Remember the old soldiering wish for volunteers rather than conscripts.
I also knew my military exemption was due to expire, and I would be forced to join the army, where gay conscripts suffer violent and sexual abuse.
Constant readiness units manned by conscripts and those manned by conscripts plus contract soldiers are trained in accordance with a five-month program.
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Wasn't this the century that included millions of conscripts hunkered down in trenches, and millions more innocent civilians herded into gulags and concentration camps?
This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise.
Military conscripts who complete military service within a single period are assigned to special standby units after basic training and are immediately available.
It means that reserve troops, conscripts who have served out their compulsory-service term, would receive more recalls for training in the future.
This was the period when Napoleon was desperately trying to call up conscripts for his armies as he attempted to replenish the troops lost in the fighting.
The military brass insisted that the only way to reduce the term of service for conscripts to one year would be to draft twice as many men as it does at present.
To some extent migrant labour is performing the role once played by military service when ex-army conscripts returned to the villages with new skills and ambitions.
It was usual for the conscripts to get Dear John letters off their girlfriends.
Another exception is army conscripts, who produce the Identity Card of the Russian Armed Forces.
Total armed forces manning numbers about 401,000 active personnel, including moreover especially conscripts.
While sometimes paid, conscripts are not free to decline enlistment and draft dodging or desertion are often met with severe punishment.
The Army currently has about 26,000 soldiers, of whom about 12,000 are conscripts.
The pishchal'niki eventually became skilled hereditary tradesmen farmers rather than conscripts.
Many of them were effectively economic conscripts with little choice but to take the King's shilling or starve.
It was thought that calling the conscripts 'militiamen' would make this more acceptable, as it would render them distinct from the rest of the army.
An estimate of 7,230,660 for the first census held in 1831 is considered a serious undercount, as this census was meant only to register possible conscripts.
Pompey's army, however, was composed largely of untested conscripts.

If he meets with only conscripts and militia he may penetrate as far as Harrisburg, and then let Europe perpend!
They will approach tasks in the civilian world with the same self-discipline that they acquired as young conscripts.
It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.
This year's memorials in Cyprus are dedicated to young conscripts.
In light of the upcoming summer enlistment, Varnava also sought to warn conscripts and their parents that political influence has no pull in this regard.

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