Editing Portuguese Armed Forces (section)

===Career and voluntary personnel===
In time of peace, the military personnel falls in two main groups: career personnel (permanent personnel) and volunteer (temporary personnel). In case of war, these two groups are added with conscript personnel.

Career personnel (QP, ''Quadro Permanente'') includes the persons who choose the military profession as their permanent life career. Admission to this career requires the [[academic degree|graduation]] in one of the higher education [[military academy|service academies]] for officers or in one of the military technical schools for non-officers. QP personnel only includes officers and sergeants in the Army and the Air Force, but it also includes other ranks in the Navy. Other ranks in the Army and the Air Force are entirely volunteer.

Volunteer personnel includes the persons who usually have a civilian profession, but volunteer to serve temporarily in the military. They might serve in roles related specifically with their civilian professions (e.g.: engineers, [[legal professionals|legal]]s, [[psychologist]]s or [[medic]]s) or in general military roles. They include officers, sergeants and other ranks. Volunteer personnel are further subdivided in two groups: contract regime (RC, ''Regime de Contrato'') and volunteer regime (RV, ''Regime de Voluntariado''). While RC personnel serves for between two and six years, RV personnel serves only for 12 months. Special RC regimes with the duration of up to 20 years are foreseen to be created for roles whose training and technical demands make desirable long periods of service. Personnel in RV can apply to serve in RC after their termination of their period of service.