What is a draft board? How is the call? Types of service

Upon reaching adulthood, as a rule, all young men already know what a military registration and enlistment office is. In the Russian Federation, this is one of the military structures subordinate to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The full official name of this structure is the military commissariat.

Military Commissariat Functions

The head of the military registration and enlistment office, together with his subordinates, ensures the performance of certain functions:

1. Organization of registration of young men with the development of the necessary documentation.
2. Call for service in the militarized structures of the Russian Federation.
3. Conducting medical and psychiatric examinations of young men, as well as their psychological selection.
4. Search for those who voluntarily left active service, as well as those who evade the draft campaign. This function includes interaction with divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, raids.
5. Conducting pre-conscription training. This includes events such as giving lectures for students in grades 9 and 11, providing schools with obstacle courses, shooting galleries, swimming pools, meetings with invitations to war veterans. In the absence of funding, the military registration and enlistment office (military commissariat) is obliged to inform the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation about the need for schools to provide any sports facilities.
6. Organization of mobilization (if necessary in wartime).

Who gets refused military service

What is a draft board? This is a place where every young person also has the right to refuse to undergo military service. And although the Commissariat is not very welcome, but practicing. The reasons for obtaining exemption from the draft campaign may include:

• the results of a medical examination, according to which the young man will not be able to study in paramilitary units;
• alternative service;
• serving in another country.

Citizens who are sons or siblings of those killed while the military are on active duty may also apply for the right to refuse to perform military service.

In any circumstances, they do not call on people who are in places of imprisonment, as well as citizens with outstanding convictions and who are under investigation at the time of the call.

How to get a respite?

Moscow military registration and enlistment offices provide a delay in the following cases:

1. Medical contraindications (for up to a year).
2. Care for a close relative in the absence of other family members who are able to carry out this amount of assistance.
3. Guardianship over younger brothers and sisters in the absence of other immediate relatives who can assume the duties of guardians for the duration of the youth military service.
4. The presence of two or more children whom the conscript brings up in a single person.
5. Employees of the Ministry of Emergencies, Customs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
6. Election of a conscript for the post of deputy of the State Duma, Federal Assembly or other objects of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
7. Full-time study at a higher educational institution.

Important aspects of the draft campaign

According to the new military reform, the age of 18-27 years is considered the draft age. The draft campaign is strictly limited in terms of:

• the first period is spring, when the military registration and enlistment offices of Moscow call on young men from 01.04 to 15.07;
• the second period is winter, when the call takes place from 01.10 to 31.12;
• the territoriality of military service does not have any restrictions by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 1999;
• Since 2008, the service life is 1 year.

Telling what a military registration and enlistment office is, one cannot but recall that its representatives prefer to issue summons to draftees directly in their hands, signed. A good reason for not appearing on the agenda can only be a disease. Evasion of military service in the Russian Federation is a crime and is punishable by the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code.

Alternative service

In the Russian Federation, alternative service has often been practiced lately . What is a draft board? This is an organization that is just engaged in the device of their conscripts for this type of service. Under the alternative service refers to work for the good of the country. For this, the young man should not have medical contraindications. Citizens work exclusively at a state enterprise. Employment in private organizations will cancel the request for alternative service.

As soon as the contract is signed on three sides (citizen, military registration and enlistment office and organization), the young man immediately begins to fulfill his duties until the expiration of this document. Work in the militarized structures of civilian personnel is 1.5 years; in other industries - 1 year and 9 months.

To get an alternative service, you need to apply to the commissariat of your locality. Then the military registration and enlistment office allocates a specialist who will conclude an agreement to work with the organization. After which it is necessary to appear for a medical examination. With its positive results, it is necessary to wait for the agenda and arrive at the destination on the specified day. In case of violation of the clauses of the contract, the term of alternative service is canceled, and the citizen is again subject to draft in the army.