What is the Thai Army and Special Forces?

The Thai army is somewhat similar to the Russian army in its formation. Let us find out what is it like? The quantity of soldiers serving there is both contract and conscription (65% of them are under contract, like in Russia), in Thai army there is a special period – the spring call-up, beginning on April 1.

For the rest, there are absolute discrepancies. Thais serve two years in the Army and three years in the Navy. They do not have an autumn conscription, the spring one lasts 11 days, not three months. The conscripts are much older than ours, they are 21 years old. Those who graduated from any Thai or foreign university and received a bachelor’s degree serve one year, and can expect to be drafted from the reserve until they are fifty-five years old.

Joint Thai and U.S. Army exercises

Lottery-or-call-in-Thai army

Even more striking is the difference in conscripts’ attitudes toward military service. For a Thai, serving in Thailand’s armed forces is winning the lottery. And in the literal sense. All those who have passed the medical commission draw lots – a black or white ball. The action is so exciting that friends and relatives of Thai recruits come to watch. It’s a special patriotic education, well forgotten in us in Russia. Any Thai boy dreams of serving in the army. This desire has a solid material reinforcement. Immediately after the draft the pay of a Thai soldier is about 7000 baht, and during the service it also increases. As a result of the lottery, only 20 percent of candidates are drafted into Thailand’s armed forces, and the rest can go home.

This abundance of potential draftees allows Thais to plan their draft date. Once in a lifetime they have the right to come to the draft office and declare the reason why they cannot serve in the army in a given year. There is no need to prove anything. The conscript’s name is simply transferred to the next year. Thai students are not even summoned to the medical commission during the whole period of training. Also, those with elderly parents in their care are treated with respect, if there is no one else to take care of them.

We recommend you watch a video that shows how this lottery works!

With large potential human reserves, the Chinese army has the luxury of choosing the best of the best based on physiological parameters. The medical board only considers those who are at least 160 cm tall and have a chest circumference of more than seventy-six centimeters fit for military service. Conscripts must not have chronic diseases, doctors are strictly watching to ensure that AIDS patients do not get into the armed forces of Thailand. Military doctors are especially picky about transgender people because sex-change operations are common in this country.

Are trans men drafted into the Thai army?

In Thailand, a man who changes gender to “female” is called a katoy (how to recognize a tranny in Thailand? ). Until recently, trans people did not serve in the Thai army at all. The conscription law passed in 1954 required that anyone who had a cosmetic sex change (men with female breasts) or a complete sex change (replacement of genitals) be considered mentally unfit to be drafted. At the same time, in Thailand an external or complete sex change is not a legal basis for changing a person’s status. A man born male remains one for the country’s authorities, regardless of what he has done with his body.

Don’t think that ladyboys aren’t fit to serve in the Thai army, most of them have iron nerves and leftover male strength (even though they take hormonal female drugs). If a Thai was a choleric before surgery, he will remain so.

Society in Thailand has now become a little less conservative, so the question of whether trans people can serve in the Thai army came up. By order of the King, it was decided that in peacetime only men without physiological differences would be drafted into the army. In special cases or if desired, those who have created female breasts. Men who have had a complete sex change are still considered mentally incompetent.

Photo of Thai special forces

Now I want to show you pictures of Thai Special Forces. The training of soldiers for the special forces is amazing with its “perversions”. In my opinion, such people are worthy of respect!