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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the netherlands doesn't have a draft bill now does it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I turned 18, I got a letter saying I would have gotten drafted if a war would break out while I was still under 30.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh that must've been relatively recent then. I'm 32 and don't recall such a letter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I was among the last to get drafted (I'm 48). After my year they stopped drafting, but they never cancelled the draft bill.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not too recent, it must have been around 2003.