There are some common points between your questions and the thread I started on conscript armies. For US, UK, Canada (may be Russia), Special forces require terms in the military. If your characters is from a country relying heavily on concript, you'll always have a term in military (shorter than a four years term) but the following term could be a mix civilian/army as many concript were members of special forces or crack troops. Then, secondary activity is not enough and you need to work it out as such character could spent 6 month on duty/6 month in civilian activities (before the war of course).
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