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Unfortunately these recruits end up serving as mref2in (guards) to politicians and officers, and work for 18 years then cash a hefty retirement bonus, and continue getting salary untiil the end of their life and the end of the life of their unmarried daughter.

We have 40000 in the army. I say train those in non combat positions instead of increasing the financial burden on the state.

Loyalty to the LAF and ISF ONLY, it bothers me when you see HA goons saying they support the Army, yet devote to a foreign militia, shame.

Any soldier from any group should be more than welcomed if he commited to protect Lebanon from ISIS and the Soviet communist Zion ruling regime of Israel

it would be an honor to join.
long live the lebanese army!

try to make your point without talking like an open sewer.

they didnt get much monney until now, and there is no point recruiting 10,000 troops if you can properly train, equip and support them. also, for each recruit you have to plan for decades of salary & expenses + retirement, you cant recruit and then dismiss a few years later because you're out of budget.

meant to say "if you *can't* properly train, equip and support them"

What defections? 5 idiots that have embarrassed their families? Instead of villagers arming themselves they should all join the LAF! God speed to our soldiers... Ya WATANI!

mowaten... conscription accounted for 20,000 soldiers. They have enough weopons and ability to train privates in the army. Instead of bringing back conscription the salaries should be increased. Pay the private soldiers double what they are getting now and see the line up at the recruitment centres. Instead of paying them peanuts and feeding them fasoulia, pay them a decent salary and give them free education at the universities like in Australia. They train them and educate them at the same time! The Government wastes so much money and borrows so much.... for what? What is needed is a strong, professional and confident armed forces.

speakfreely... The LAF has not received any money! All they have received is small arms and hell fire missiles from the USA. All the money that KSA has so famously donated to the LAF i.e. The $3 billion US, is nothing but an arabian desert mirage... bedouin lies. France has agreed to supply the weapons but are frustrated as to why KSA is holding back the money... It's because they don't intend to give anything. Without the heavy weapons, the LAF can only rely on a well trained "Special Forces" army that can fight without the heavy weapons they really need. The aussie ADF only have around 30,000 army soldiers but they are all trained so well, that even the standard soldier is at the special forces level compared to many other armies. This is something the LAF can do without relying on donated advanced weaponry that will never come.

God bless the Lebanese Army, the only protectors of our country.

Excellent news, this recruitment drive. Now here's a little piece of advice for those in charge of the army: Do please consider using some of those extra funds being donated to the army by foreign nations to raise the paid salaries of the soldiers at least to above whatever ISIL is paying them to defect, and not just to buy weapons. In some article recently I remember that ISIL was recruiting part of the 95% of Arsal that are unemployed with as little as a $500 monthly salary...