Recruits have to directly jump into the Military records from Instagram and Facebook: If they don't answer, they can end up in prison (DOCUMENTATION)

First young men who will perhaps have to serve the state, could start soon take an oath in one of the Serbian barracks by 2020. And now, future soldiers will have to enroll in military records, and the call is sent to everybody who is 18 years old or older if they have not yet enrolled for some reason.

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You are watching these bearless young men surfing the city, watching in their virtual world on their cell phones in their lands, scrolling through statuses and posts on Facebook and Instagram, and imagine them in two years in a line and with a gun in their hand. They are already recruits today.

Foto: Tanjug/Ministarstvo odbrane

- Recruits who are turning 18 in this year are legally obliged to enroll in military records and all other older recruit who didn't enroll before. With this in mind, people who were born in the first half of 2000 and older are being introduced to the military records. Introduction to military records is the first activity of the of the recruitment obligation and requires precise planning and alignment with other recruitment activities, so the gathered information is exclusively used in accordance with the Law on Military, Labor and Material obligations - they stated in the Ministry of defense.

Although the obligation to serve a military service was suspended in 2011, the obligation to enroll in military records remained, as well as the obligation to serve in the reserve force.

Recruit data is important for analyzing the state of defense resources.

- In order to properly review all aspects and to analyze the state of human and material resources for the needs of the defense of the Republic of Serbia, a complete record of the persons of the male gender is required in the Ministry.

After the latest announcement that mandatory military service will be brought back, the Ministry of Defense has already begun drafting a study on all modalities and possibilities for a possible return of the military service obligation.  

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The introduction into military records is carried out by the center of the Ministry of Defense for Local Self-Government. Young men who are staying abroad are obliged to report to the competent diplomatic-consular mission of the Republic of Serbia for the purpose of introducing them into military records.

Forms for enrollment in military records can be downloaded on the website of the Ministry of Defense.

- All persons who have immediate tasks and obligations and for justified reasons can not respond to the call of territorial authorities, they need to respond promptly and justify their absence. Otherwise, if they can't justify, the recruit will be subjected to sanctions. At the request of the territorial authorities of the Ministry of Defence to start the misdemeanor proceeding against the person who received a call but didn't respond, the misdemeanor court decided whether there were elements of the offence, responsibility of the defendant and then they will decide about the punishment, in accordance with the law - they stated in the ministry.

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As explained in the Ministry, misdemeanor sanctions are defined by Article 126 of the Law on Military, Labor and Material Obligations.

"Recruit or the person in reserve force will be fined with 10.000 to 50.000 dinars or with imprisonment of up to 60 days, if they don't respond to the invitation of the territorial authority at the time and place designated in the individual invitation for introduction into military records, recruitment, military service, as well as medical and other examinations (Articles 11 and 51 of this Law), for a military practice or other training of the reserve force, which is recognized as execution of a military exercise" - written in the mentioned article.

The idea of Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic is to re-introduce the mandatory military service and it was welcomed by many. 56.83 percent of the readers of Telegraf responded that they supported the idea in a survey, and 38.1% was against because there is a professional army. Those who think that there are many factors make 4.09 percent.

Foto: Tanjug/Ministarstvo odbrane

And there was no end to comments... 

- It should be done like before... There are capable and incapable of going to the military. Those who are not capable for the military aren't capable of doing anything. That kind of people even runs from girls, and if someone has enough luck and money to get married they will soon receive as a "gift" a divorce... and that is why there is a saying, "if you were capable, you would have served the military" - certain Ljubisa is confident.

No, some things that girls also belong in the military. 

- Is there something that would bother us in the military, short and clear YES, women do belong in the military - a reader who calls himself Sevda wrote.

Girls answered as well... 

Foto: Tanjug/Oksana Toskić

- The military service is also for women and men. I am 19 years old and I want to learn some things that will help me as a girl in self-defense. It will last for three or six months, but it will stay for a lifetime. I have over 100kg and I want to move this fat as* and to learn some stuff... Military service is also for women, and men would just harass us and beat us up. Stop to violence, but if you can't defend yourself, you won't be able to defend anyone" - a lady wrote.

"They didn't tell you that you are going to war"

- People, the thing is that you are going to the military... They didn't really say you are going to war... And now, who was never in the army he can't possibly know what's it like. My personal opinion is that the army created a man out of me, I put some meat on the bones and took me to the right path... I trained twice a day for 9 months, I ate at the same time... I improved in every way. My grandpa was a soldier... My father was a soldier... I was a soldier... my son will be a soldier... think about it... - wrote Max.

"I am not giving my child"

- They can go if they want to, I don't understand those who support the introduction of mandatory military service. U am not giving away my child... - wrote "Fizikalac".

And he received an answer:

- Well, we are supporting it just because of people like you and "daddy's sons", just like your son is. If there were less spoiled brats there would be fewer fights - wrote the other reader.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Mateja Beljan - m.beljan@telegraf.co.uk)