When I was soldier in 1998 at Austrian Marines & Guards ...

 

Between 1993 to 1999 several young men (between 17 and 23) arrived from the balkan former Yugoslavia, fleeing from war, where they where shortly before entered as serbian, bosnian and some few as croatian soldiers. Although it is not normally permitted to immediately grant Austrian citizenship to deserters from another army and send them to the Austrian Armed Forces, the General Staff made an exception in this case.

These young men didn't fight longer as 2 months at average for one of the ex-yougoslavian armees and deserted, because they had fear, that they killed an opposite soldier and could get come clear with maybe killing a brother. Or others lost motivation and didn't see anymore sense in this civil war.

Normally, when deserting from any army of the world, the military police brings you back, no matter in which state you currently are. To avoid that, they were cought by balkans military police and forced to return to war, austrian army immediately put them in service.

If you are a soldier in the Austrian army, then no military police of another state is allowed to take you away, even if you were previously a citizen.

All young refugees from former Yugoslavia agreed and liked that solution and wanted to stay in Austria aftter completing military service and almost all 99,9% keept staying here as austrian citizens, most found regular work, the rest found their place in sports NGOs.