YEREVAN (A.W.)—On June 6, Armenia’s Ministry of Defense announced that women would now be allowed to attend military school—specifically, the Vazken Sarkisian Military Institute and the Marshal Khanperiants Air Force Institute—starting with the 2013-14 school year.
Women applicants must be citizens of Armenia, at least 18 years of age, and physically fit, and must excel in math and physics, according to the Ministry. Their health must allow them to engage in military school and, subsequently, military service.
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Honestly speaking I wholeheartedly welcome this fantastic news.
I have been constantly advocating that we should follow Israels’s
conscription systems, before it is too late.
That’s great! Wasn’t so long ago that this happened in the United States too.