<P> Military rank, either as NCO or reserve officer, is highly valued as a merit in Finland by employers when recruiting a male employee . In general, serving as an NCO or, especially, as a reserve officer, has a clear positive impact on future earnings and achievement of a high career position of the individual . </P> <P> As of 2009, Greece (Hellenic Republic) has mandatory military service of 9 months for men in the Army and 12 months for the Navy and Air Force . Some are entitled to reduced service due to serious family reasons (single parent families, parent serving in the army etc .). Although Greece is developing a professional army system, it continues to enforce the 9 - month mandatory military service . It has been stated that the draft is to be reduced to six months in future . Women are accepted into the Greek army as salaried professionals, but are not obliged to mandatory conscript service . Conscript soldiers receive full health insurance and a nominal salary of € 9 per month for privates and € 12 for the rank of draft corporal and draft sergeant . There is the option of serving as a non-regular officer designate . In that case the received salary is € 569 (with an additional € 150 if the cadet is sent far from his home) after basic training is over . The duration of cadet training is roughly 4 months and 9 more months are dedicated for the actual service . Adding the 1 month spent in rookie training, a cadet's conscription will last a total of 14 months . In the last month of his service the cadet takes the rank of second lieutenant . The minimum wage for an unskilled worker stands at around € 650 per month in Greece, while professional soldiers are paid upwards of € 800 . This results in reservist corporals and sergeants receiving a wage that is 1 / 70th that of a professional soldier, whom they outrank . This inconsistency was partly dealt with by abolishing the rank of sergeant for conscripts . </P> <P> The length of alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors to military service is 15 months . Amnesty International was also concerned that the determination of conscientious objector status fell under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, which breaches international standards that stipulate that the entire institution of alternative service should have a civilian character . </P> <P> Iran has mandatory military service for men which starts at the age of 18 . Duration of military service is normally 24 months but it can be also varying according to some conditions and circumstances . There is a 24 - month military service for general, 22 months for destitute areas and 20 months for boundary areas; there is two months for military education . There are exceptions for those who cannot serve because of physical or mental health problems or disabilities . Students are exempt as long as they are attending school . The higher the education of a man, the higher his rank will be in the military service . Since 2008 and the commence of Iran's National Elites Foundation (Bonyade Mellie Nokhbegan), students or university graduates who are accepted as members of this organization (because of their special achievements, e.g., recognized researchers with proven accomplishments, national and international olympiad medalists and winners of invention competitions) can have a "scientific research" substitution instead of mandatory military service, and the research grant is given to these members from military universities, otherwise, formally these members are regarded as "soldiers" who are spending the mandatory military service program, and in any publication related to that research, their citations have to be that of the military university giving the research grant . The 45 - day mandatory military training is applicable even for those who are members of Iran's National Elites Foundation . </P>

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