It is snowing, and 16-year-old Carlotta is standing on the vast military training ground in Grafenwöhr watching a howitzer 2000 fire live ammunition. It is cold and very loud when the shells are fired, so Carlotta has to wear earplugs.

This is not a day like any other for the young school student: While her friends are sitting in warm classrooms in Cologne, she has made her way to Bavaria by train alone. In the barracks of Tank Artillery Battalion 375 in Weiden, she has moved into a room and been given a uniform, in which she now stands in the winter cold on the grounds, together with two dozen other young men and women.

A whole team of supervisors looks after the young people: The German military is sparing no effort to recruit new soldiers. Carlotta also wants to see if the Bundeswehr is really something for her. To do so, she is taking part in the so-called “Discovery Days” — a kind of short internship with the troops, including early morning sports and camaraderie evenings.

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The Nordic nation announced plans Wednesday to implement changes to its conscription policy that will permit women to be drafted, increase the length of service from four to 11 months and see the number of conscripts jump by 300 to 5,000.

Denmark’s Armed Forces is undergoing an “historic strengthening” and an increase in soldiers is needed to staff operational units, which is requiring it to rethink its conscription model, it said.

“Unfortunately, the security policy situation in Europe has become more and more serious, and we have to take that into account when we look at future defense,” Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said in a statement.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/03/14/denmark-conscript-women-military/6691710405978/

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