The Spanish Army is today full professional army, since 2001, I think. When I left the Batallón de Instruccion Paracaidista (Basic Parachute/Legion training) and joined the Parachute Brigade in December 1998, the last conscripts were still serving in the Spanish Army. They were only performing basic tasks (kitchen service, cleaning, administrative tasks) releasing the professional soldiers from these works. These conscripts of the last years before the transition to a professional army, were probably the worst trained soldiers in the history of the Spanish Army. Not only they were unable to avoid the conscription (an easy thing if you had a job or if you were studying), but the army has reserved for them all the non-military duties once they finished the basic training.
Of course things didn't work in that way when the Spanish Army was based in conscription. Then all the units were integrated for conscript soldiers an they assume any the available roles (below NCO rank). The best and hardest units, like the Spanish Legion,the Parachute Brigade, and the COE (Special Forces), were formed by volunteer conscripts. It was usual that, in the first days of his military service, the conscript received in his assigned unit,the visit of a delegation from the Legion, the COE and the Paras, each of them trying to recruit him.
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