When will the 2024 draft be issued?

May I ask what month will the military enlistment in 2024 take place? When must the military enlistment order be delivered to citizens? - Reader Duc Huy

Military enlistment schedule 2024. (Source: TVPL)

What is military service?

According to the provisions of the Law on Military Service 2015, military service can be understood as the honorable duty of citizens serving in the People's Army. Performing military service includes serving in the active army and serving in the reserve force of the People's Army.

Citizens of military service age, regardless of ethnicity, social class, belief, religion, educational level, occupation, or place of residence, must perform military service according to the provisions of the Law on Military Service 2015.

Citizens serving in the Coast Guard and performing their duty to join the People's Public Security are considered to be performing active military service.

Citizens in one of the following cases are recognized as having completed their military service in peacetime:

- Core militiamen who have completed their duty to join the militia, including at least 12 months of regular militia duty;

- Completed the task of participating in the Commune Police continuously for 36 months or more;

- Cadres, civil servants, public employees, university graduates or higher, who have been trained and awarded the rank of reserve officer;

- Young people who have graduated from university, college, or intermediate school volunteer to serve in economic-defense groups for 24 months or more according to the Project decided by the Prime Minister;

- Citizens serving on fishing control vessels for 24 months or more.

Military enlistment schedule 2024

Military service (or conscription) is when a citizen enters the army to serve for a limited period of time in the regular forces of the People's Army and the Coast Guard.

According to Article 33 of the 2015 Law on Military Service, citizens are called up for military service once a year in February or March; in case of necessity for national defense and security reasons, citizens can be called up for military service a second time. For localities with disasters or dangerous epidemics, the time for calling up for military service can be adjusted.

Thus , based on the above regulations, it can be determined that the time to call citizens for military service in 2024 will take place around February 2024 or March 2024.

When should the 2024 military draft be delivered to citizens?

Pursuant to Article 34 of the Law on Military Service 2015:

- The Prime Minister decides on the time and number of citizens called up for military service in provinces and centrally run cities (provincial level); decides on the second call up of citizens; decides on the adjustment of the number and time of call up of citizens for military service in provinces according to the provisions of Article 33 of the Law on Military Service 2015.

- Based on the decision of the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Defense decides the number of citizens to be called up for military service for units under his authority in each provincial-level locality.

- The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee decides to assign the number of citizens to enlist in the army to the district-level locality.

- The commander of a provincial or district-level military agency is responsible for advising the Chairman of the People's Committee at the same level in assigning the number of citizens to enlist for military service to the district or commune-level localities; and directing the selection of citizens to enlist.

- The Chairman of the District People's Committee decides to assign the number of citizens called up for military service to the commune-level locality; decides on the list of citizens called up for military service upon the proposal of the Military Service Council at the same level.

- The Commander of the District Military Command issues an order to call each citizen to military service. The call-up order must be delivered to the citizen 15 days before the time stated in the order.

Thus: Based on the above regulations, the military call-up order must be delivered to citizens 15 days before the time stated in the order.

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