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premilitary

  • a word derived from military.
    military
    adjective
    of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy.

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The organization today is primarily a premilitary training unit, commanded by a major general and allotted $7.5 million a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

The formal portion of the program initiated in 1968 consists of a schedule of premilitary training, obligatory for all young men and women between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut