Supposed you had another $10 million...

[Az]

yep. Tanks cost from 1.5 to 4.5 Mil ( Leclerc . Piece of autoloader **** ).

[Pekka]

What choppers you get? New Apaches? How much does ammo cost? It should be fully loaded, ready to destroy too!

It would be so cool to go to work everyday with assault chopper.. no one would mess with you.

[Az]

ahem, well, that's the catch. Ammunition doesn't just pop out of thin air. After every night you get mightily pissed off at the neighbours, you have to reload this bad boy. That and Maintenance! .but you know how it is with military equipment.

I'd save some more, and get a fighter jet, personally.

[Pekka]

Yeah I figure the real cost is maintenance and ammo.. also I think it consumes more than a regular car so.. but we can always dream.
I'd get a fighter jet too.. those are my passion, too bad I can never fly one. Though I'm not sure, maybe they rent those Migs in Russia so people can fly with them.. it's possible I think if you have the money.

Choppers are cool too, you know it costs 98 000 euros to get a pro chopper pilot license and training here? Kind of expensive. Also there are only maybe about 4 to 6 in every two year they choose as assault chopper pilots in cadet school so.. sucks.

[Az]

That's weird, since you people do have conscription... but on the other hand, how many choppers do you have?

[Pekka]

That's the problem. I don't even know.. we just got a deal for new ones, but we don't have lots of them.. There are choppers for transports like mi-8s and stuff, but real assault choppers are not that many.
Also if you get to fly these babies, it means you fly them for long time too, since you're staff then.

So you might already guess, that it's VERY tough to get into the training, because there are lots of good young guys who want to do it.. keeps the quality of pilots very high though.

[Pekka]

So chopper pilots aren't regular army.. you can't even apply to do that, you have to accomplish your service first with excellent discharge (that I got! Woohoo!) and then apply to cadet school and be army for life. And then you have to score top, and that's not enough, you have to be the best of the best. Too bad I'm not best of the best .

Fighter pilots are not regular army either.. actually these things are pro army in it's meaning, no reserve pilots or stuff like that.

[Sava]

I'd buy 10 million dollars worth of lottery tickets, win 300 million dollars, then buy the presidency.

[Az]

Oh, ok, I understand. Though most people would have no problem with returning to the army once in a while to fly fighter jets.

[Pekka]

Azazel, true.. but we see it more important to keep pilots flying all the time with no gaps. At least no gaps going to civil life, they stay in the army and fly all the time, or train others to fly, or at least watch top gun .
Since our materials are limited, we make sure it's top quality. Always been, always will be .

[Ben Kenobi]

Assuming I'm in the situation I am now...

1 million put aside for me to live off the interest.

500 thou to both my brothers held in trust, again as yearly guaranteed income.

Whatever my folks need to retire, again around 1 million.

Pay my girlfriend's tuition and living expenses for the next while.

1 million to my church.

Buy a nice house in the suburbs of Vancouver, around 300,000.

Give the rest away how I see fit.

[Pekka]

You get a nice house at around 300 000?
Or just 'nice'..?

[Arrian]

Already a billionaire, get $10 million more?

I wouldn't know what to do with the billion. The extra ten mil wouldn't even register.

But I'm never going to be a billionaire anyway.

-Arrian

[Ben Kenobi]

I'd rather live some ways from the city of Vancouver.

I don't want or need a mansion.

[Pekka]

Yeah not talking about mansions, but a nice house from suburbs.. I'd compare it to here, if you want a house, it costs you 200 000 minimum. Doesn't matter where, if from popular place, then a lot more. If better than normal little house, then much much more. So.. 300 000 is quite normal, or does it get actually a nice house?