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Not nessisarily. Children under 20 could NOT participate buuut had the choice to if it was completely nessesary. some teenagers (18 mostly boys) decided to fight

alongside their country which later on helped the army in many ways cause they managed to get both the Americans and ethipoians out of Somalia. So they answer to your question would be no, they got the choice. hope that helped

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