Denmark is seeking to increase the number of young people in the military by extending compulsory enlistment to women for the first time.

After nearly four months of military training, the young soldier and the rest of her unit spent early June completing their final exercises near the Danish army’s barracks in Hovelte, 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of Copenhagen.

With Europe feeling the threat of Russian aggression, Denmark is bulking up its military by making women subject to the draft for the first time in the nation's history. Both men and women may still volunteer,