Army deputy spokeswoman Col Sirichan Ngathong said on Friday that 496,748 young men participated in military conscription
conscription
Meaning: the practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces
Thai Translation: การเกณฑ์ทหาร
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, held between April 1 and Sunday. The armed forces accepted 99,373 of them: 75,404 as army conscripts, 7,969 as air force conscripts and 16,000 as naval conscripts.