If you don´t want to, no you don´t have to serve in the Swedish Armed Forces under the particular circomstances you wrote in your original post.
Furthermore, if you don´t want to serve don´t take up a slot that someone really wants by applying only to have a change of heart a few weeks/months into your service..The spots are few and far between as is.

Having said that.
IF you decide you want to serve and actively apply to do so you will have an oppurtunity at your (mönstring) to ask for a specific assignment.
Your wishes will be taken into account but you will be placed where the Armed Forces needs you the most.
If you decide to go to one of the original Jägarschools you will have to do a second screening.
This to determin if you are physically and mentally fit enough for the training and service at one of before mentioned schools.
If this is the road you choose you will be given a reserve place of service if you should not make it through the training.
The job of the mönstrings station is to put the right man at the right job.
They don´t always succeed, but they will not put a guy with a 2 in strength in a Jägar unit for example.

There are several units trainng in the area you mentioned and getting an assignment for one of them should be rather easy.
That is my opinion and don´t take it for gospel.

If you have further questions that I have not addressed post them and I will answer them when I can.
It may take awhile though because I am rather busy right now.

And as for you reference to when Sweden were last at war.
You have a point in that Swedish soil haven´t been occupied in a few hundred years.
That doesn´t mean you can´t apply for a unit that is out in the world making a difference.
I´ll let you do your own research on that if you are interested in following that path.

The few, the proud, serve.

//KJ.

Yes, it is possible to influence your assignment, but they will probably put you in one that you fit in the most. (This is what they said when i did it), they will look for a place near your home, but you can be put anywhere.
The won't call you but will send a letter.
Your right that you wan't have to worry very much about getting shoot at, beacuse the limited combat and few losses that have occured is by volunters in Afghanistan.

It's only a year. Suck it up, be a man, go and do the job the Swedish military tells you to do.

Yep, sometimes the military can be absolutely brilliant in terms of putting you in the right place.
They gave me NBC specialist, the most book and eye intensive MOS... basically gave it to a guy who didn't speak much Korean at all, read slower than most 1st graders and got a D- in chemistry.
Funny enough, it turned out really well. Just how did they know? Sometimes it scares me.

Originally Posted by AussieNick

It's only a year. Suck it up, be a man, go and do the job the Swedish military tells you to do.

Well it's not like I'd have any other choice. I don't really have a problem with serving, it's just not very convenient at that age.

I say it'll be good for you at that age.

There's no 'convienient age' to serve in the military. If it happens to interfere with your studies, get ahold of your recruiting office and try to work something out where you can serve your time after graduation.

[quote=EagleHammer;413183Your right that you wan't have to worry very much about getting shoot at, beacuse the limited combat and few losses that have occured is by volunters in Afghanistan.[/quote]

What source do you have for that statement?
How do you know where Swedish troops perform combat operations?

Do not guess.
This young man deserves to get good intel from people that knows what they are talking about.
IF you have input on the screening portion feel free to share.
You have no clue when it comes to the operational side, lets leave it at that.

KJ sends..

Originally Posted by Mammoth

Well it's not like I'd have any other choice. I don't really have a problem with serving, it's just not very convenient at that age.

Everyone who serves makes a sacrifice, however the military will let you get an extension to let you finish school first.
Much like the US DEP program.

//KJ.

I guess for someone living in canada its not obvious to serve in a military force of anykind. think of it this way, you are lucky enough to have two diffrent countries that wil recruit you, and one of them even has mandatory service. why lucky? because no matter what education you interrupt, no matter what job you get, serving in the military will, and i gurantee it, change your life. you will go from being a kid to being a man. I say go for it.