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Conscription goes like this: you get a basic training where they build fitness, you learn what is to be a soldier (learn how you dress, how you talk to the superiors, learn ranks, how to obey orders, etc), learn how to handle your personal weapons. Then you get sorted to a branch (infantry, armor, artillery, engineers, recon, marine, airborne, etc etc etc) and you learn how to be a soldier in that particular branch, context and team. Then you learn how to be a cog in the larger scheme, such as in combined arms applications of the army, when branches cooperate with each other in a battle or operation.
Depending you might or might not have a say where you're going to serve, they might or might not examine your aptitude as well.
So as conscript normally you can learn everything short of becoming a pilot and such, roles which demands professional knowledge.
This takes some time, the bare minimum would be six months. More the better.
War can change a lot tho.