The Lithuanian Armed Forces published this year’s military conscription list on Tuesday.
A total of 27,291 Lithuanian citizens are on the list, available online at https://sauktiniai.karys.lt, and 3,845 of them will be called up for a nine-month compulsory initial military service.
Men aged between 18 and 23 are conscripted for military service.
The first conscripts are expected to start their service at the Air Defence Battalion in Radviliškis in early February.
Higher education students are not included in the lists, but they can be called up for one year after graduation until the age of 26.
Volunteer conscripts can serve until the age of 38.
This may be the last time the military draft is conducted under the current model as politicians are considering reforming the conscription system.
The draft subscription reform, which would allow calling up more young men, passed the first reading in the parliament at the end of the fall session.
The bill calls for drafting men aged 18 to 21 after school and it does not allow deferring service for higher education students.
The reform would also allow conscripts to choose either six months or nine months of compulsory military service.
The Defence Ministry says that up to 5,000 young men could be conscripted each year once the reform is implemented.
The parliament reintroduced the nine-month continuous compulsory initial military service in 2015.
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