During these five years, the human contact that has been made especially by the French Army-by its career officers, its reserve officers, its fighting men, its young conscripts-will be continued and developed and, in Metropolitan France, the same must be true, in Paris and n our provinces.
Some 8,000 fewer conscripts than planned will be called up next year; some facilities will close, ending certain civilian jobs; the army will start charging for services like flood relief and emergency transport that it used to offer free.
The conscripts, whose number will be cut to 50,000, could be replaced by professional soldiers.
Besides, the system of dedovshchina has a built-in mechanism to make sure that it perpetuates itself: If old-timers aren't harsh enough on new conscripts, they themselves will be "demoted" back to the level of dukh.
The need for additional security forces has raised concerns among some Afghans that the government will conscript solders.
"One conscript answered, I will surrender you d__ you, and leveled his gun, but just as he pulled the trigger, West pushed the gun up the contents almost cutting a joist in two over the door".
But the newspaper added that even if the problem can be partly solved through a decrease in the number of conscripts, the upcoming reduction will be the widest.
