(c) The additional service time of enlistees beyond the training period may provide valuable military experience. 71. However, the following aspects might also be considered: (a) By and large, conscripted and enlisted privates perform similar functions; (b) Training time for each type is roughly similar, particularly when account is taken of reservist conscripts or conscripts in refresher training; (c) The conscript system produces a relatively larqer number of militarily trained personnel in the population as a whole than the enlisted system (per man-year of active duty). By providing more trained individuals and a larqer trained reserve, greater overall military worth is created even if not in the form of standinq forces; (d) By conscripting from the general population, d greater commitment to national defence on the part of the entire population may be obtained. 72. A crucial question in this context is the number of months of training a conscript would need before he could be expected to have acouired about the same degree of military skills and capabilities as those of an average enlisted private. This is, no doubt, a highly difficult subject to different national experience. The present Group did not have the time to examine and analyse these differences, either between or within the two types of privates, in any depth. Such an examination would be desirable in the event of further refinement of military personnel PPPs in the future. The Group agreed, however, that conscripts with more than six months of training could be attributed a military value or capacity which would by and large be similar to the one of enlisted privates. It should be noted that this assessment relates to the group of conscripts with more than six months of service taken as a whole and not as much to those conscripts who 
**Analysis**
The text appears to discuss the military personnel policies and the comparison between conscripted and enlisted personnel. It highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each system, including the number of months of training required to achieve similar military skills and capabilities. The text also mentions the potential impact on national defense and the overall military worth created by the conscript system.

**Category**
Employment, Education