draft exemption
Conscription avoidance status
Draft exemption is official release from compulsory military service.
Governments grant exemptions for various reasons: physical disability, essential civilian work, religious objection, family hardship, or student status.
He got a draft exemption for bone spurs.
The criteria for exemption often become controversial during wartime, when exemptions can appear to favor the privileged.
- defermentAuthorized delay of obligation
- student defermentDelayed conscription for academics
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
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Mandatory military enrollment
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