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draft-age

Portuguese translation: idade para prestar serviço militar, para o alistamento

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English term or phrase:draft-age
Portuguese translation:idade para prestar serviço militar, para o alistamento
Entered by: Danilo Freire (X)

01:23 May 26, 2009
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: draft-age
draft-age youth assessed the resources of their family and village and often decided to rely on them for survival
Danilo Freire (X)
Local time: 19:15
idade para prestar serviço militar
Explanation:
A lottery based on birthdays determines the order in which registered men are called up by Selective Service. The first to be called, in a sequence determined by the lottery, will be men whose 20th birthday falls during that year, followed, if needed, by those aged 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25. 18-year-olds and those turning 19 would probably not be drafted.

On this day in 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37. In September 1940, Congress, by wide margins in ...
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=63...

Conscription in the United States (also called compulsory military service or the draft) has been employed several times, usually during war but also during the nominal peace of the Cold War. The United States discontinued the draft in 1973, moving to an all-volunteer military force, thus there is currently no mandatory conscription.

However, the Selective Service System remains in place as a contingency; men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register so that a draft can be readily resumed. More recently registration is not required, instead information is collected for each person after their 18th birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Stat...

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-05-26 01:37:12 GMT)
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Serivço militar obrigatório
Selected response from:

Carlos Quandt
Brazil
Local time: 20:15
Grading comment
Muito obrigado a todos que colabraram, todas as respostas foram muito úteis.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5idade para (de) alistamento
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
4 +3idade militar
Marcelo Lino
3 +1idade para prestar serviço militar
Carlos Quandt
4idade para recrutamento ou para o sorteio militar
Marcos Antonio


  

Answers


13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
idade para prestar serviço militar


Explanation:
A lottery based on birthdays determines the order in which registered men are called up by Selective Service. The first to be called, in a sequence determined by the lottery, will be men whose 20th birthday falls during that year, followed, if needed, by those aged 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25. 18-year-olds and those turning 19 would probably not be drafted.

On this day in 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37. In September 1940, Congress, by wide margins in ...
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=63...

Conscription in the United States (also called compulsory military service or the draft) has been employed several times, usually during war but also during the nominal peace of the Cold War. The United States discontinued the draft in 1973, moving to an all-volunteer military force, thus there is currently no mandatory conscription.

However, the Selective Service System remains in place as a contingency; men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register so that a draft can be readily resumed. More recently registration is not required, instead information is collected for each person after their 18th birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Stat...

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-05-26 01:37:12 GMT)
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Serivço militar obrigatório

Carlos Quandt
Brazil
Local time: 20:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Muito obrigado a todos que colabraram, todas as respostas foram muito úteis.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas
4 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
idade militar


Explanation:
A idade cívica para o serviço militar.

"Jovens em idade militar..."


...todo homem em idade militar podia ser convocado para a frente de batalha, todos os soldados americanos são, hoje, profissionais.
http://meridiano47.info/2008/01/11/recrutas-ou-profissionais...

Marcelo Lino
Brazil
Local time: 19:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ligia Dias Costa
5 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Ligia!
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
5 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Teresa!
agree  Maria José Tavares (X)
7 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Maria José!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
idade para (de) alistamento


Explanation:


Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Amorim (X)
2 hrs
  -> Maria, grato
agree  Leonor Machado
4 hrs
  -> Leonor, grato
agree  Marlene Curtis
6 hrs
  -> Marlene, tx!
agree  Pedro Mallmann
9 hrs
  -> Pedro, grato
agree  Lúcia Leitão
9 hrs
  -> Lúcia, grato
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
idade para recrutamento ou para o sorteio militar


Explanation:
Sug.


draft: recrutamento ou sorteio militar ( Vallandro)

Marcos Antonio
Local time: 19:15
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 18
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