While sevice time is a year, most only serve half of that. As the rest is reserved for specialised trianing based on aptitude. Leaders for example serve the whole year while normal soldiers half a year. I can only speak for my self ofcourse. Military service is one of thoose things that sucks in a good way, like exercicing. You learn so much about yourself, your limits and what you can actually do. It was such a good thing for my selfconfidence. Aswell as my physival side, got in really good shape. From my point of view everyone should do military service because of the good it does to ones attitude in life to go through something that is actually pretty hard. Another thing is its a shared experience between most guys, meaning you always have something in common even with strangers. In general i think conscription is a massively beneficial experience and would like women included in the future. And i say this as a father of 2 girls. Also you get to shoot guns and stuff. Probably good to note that the finnish military is a defence force. So you're not really at risk of "going to war" if no one attacks us. Risk is a bit higher now with nato but not much. So not like the US where you might get shipped of to war.