Ground Forces (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (VDV), Strategic Rocket Forces (Raketnyye Voyska

Military branches:
Ground Forces (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (VDV), Strategic Rocket Forces (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN), and Space Troops (Kosmicheskiye Voyska, KV) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the three branches; Russian Ground Forces include the following combat arms: motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and artillery troops, air defense of the ground troops (2010)
Military service age and obligation:
18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; service obligation - 1 year (conscripts can only be sent to combat zones after 6 months training); reserve obligation to age 50 note: over 60% of draft-age Russian males receive some type of deferment - generally health related - each draft cycle (2009)

The Conscription Process

Russian law gives detailed guidelines for the various stages of the conscription process. These guidelines, found in the 1998 law on military service and a 1999 implementing regulation, are applicable without exception to all young men of conscription age.

In the year he turns seventeen, a male citizen is entered into the military registry (in Russian: voinskii uchet). At this time, a preliminary determination is made as to whether he is fit for military service or has grounds for a non-medical exemption (освобождение).

When he turns eighteen, a Russian male receives a summons to appear at his local draft board (военкомат) for conscription proceedings. According to the regulation on conscription, he must be directly handed the summons and must sign it. If a young man is handed a draft summons and signs but subsequently does not appear for conscription proceedings, he is considered to be a draft dodger (уклоняющийся) and is prosecuted under the criminal code. If officials are unable to physically hand a young man a summons, the military recruitment office may request the local police precinct in writing to help "ensure" his presence at conscription proceedings. Human Rights Watch did not find any cases in which a man delivered with a summons refused to sign, and it is unclear what consequences ensue in such cases.

Conscription proceedings ordinarily consist of a medical exam by physicians to determine a candidate's fitness for military service, and a determination by the draft board (in Russian, prizyvnaia komissia) as to whether he should be exempted from military service, given a deferral, placed in reserve, drafted, or sent to perform alternative service. It also assigns the candidate to a specific branch of service.

Once the draft board has reached a decision to conscript, it informs the draftee, who is entitled to a copy of the conscription order upon request. The draft board then allows him to go home to await a service summons to appear at the collection point (in Russian, sbornyi punkt) from which he is to depart to his military base. This waiting period typically lasts from one day to about three months. During this time, the young man may appeal the draft board's decision. At the collection point, the municipal or province draft board reviews the decisions of the local commission, and a panel of medical doctors once again examines his fitness. After these procedures, representatives of military units meet the new conscripts and arrange for their departure.

Army Units & Sizes

The table below is an attempt to summarise the relationships between and the sizes of various military units. These sizes (and sometimes names) will vary not only from country to country, but also by the nature of the unit and its particular circumstances. The numbers given for men in each unit is more representative of infantry units than armoured units.

Unit Name	Consists of [1]:	Approx Number of men:	Commanded by:
Army	2 or more Corps	100,000 to 150,000	Field Marshal or General
Corps	2 or more Divisions	25,000 to 50,000	General or Lt. Gen.
Division	3 or more Brigades or Regiments	10,000 to 15,000	Lt. Gen or Maj. Gen.
Brigade	3 or more Battalions	1500 to 3500	Maj. Gen, Brigadier or Col.
Regiment [2]	2 or more Battalions	1000 to 2000	Col.
Battalion	4 or more Companies	400 to 1000	Lt. Col.
Company	2 or more Platoons	100 to 250	Captain or Maj
Platoon (Troop)	2 or more Squads	16 to 50	1st Lt.
Squad	2 or more Sections	8 to 24	Sgt.
Section		4 to 12	Sgt.

Notes:

[1] This column indicates what usually makes up the core of the unit - with larger formations there will be more supporting units as well such as units for headquarters, admin, signals, air-defence etc etc which will increase the overall number of men involved.

[2] Regiment is not usually a deployed unit as a whole, but is more of an "administrative family" or permanent label of a group's identity. So units from a particular regiment may be spread around within an army.

	British Army
Gemeiner, Landser	Schütze	Private
	Oberschütze
Grenadier	Sturmmann	Lance Corporal
Obergrenadier
Gefreiter	Rottenführer	Corporal
Obergefreiter	Unterscharführer
Stabsgefreiter
Unteroffizier	Scharführer	Sergeant
Unterfeldwebel	Oberscharführer	Colour Sergeant
Feldwebel
Oberfeldwebel	Hauptscharführer	Sergeant Major
Stabsfeldwebel	Hauptbereitschaftsleiter
	Sturmscharführer	Warrant Officer
Leutnant	Untersturmführer	Second Lieutenant
Oberleutnant	Obersturmführer	First Lieutenant
Hauptmann	Hauptsturmführer	Captain
Major	Sturmbannführer	Major
Oberstleutnant	Obersturmbannführer	Lieutenant Colonel
Oberst	Standartenführer	Colonel
	Oberführer	Brigadier
Generalmajor	Brigadeführer	Major General
Generalleutnant	Gruppenführer	Lieutenant General
General	Obergruppenführer	General
Generaloberst	Oberstgruppenführer
Generalfeldmarschall	Riechsführer-SS	Field Marshal

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