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Hmmm....pioneer were you in the Greek army?
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I was in the army and all I got was an olive green t-shirt."On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
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Sir Ralph... 14 years? German army? What position?Comment
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Jaako, the ppl who wear military effects after their year of service are either farmers or gimpers.Comment
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Yes - mandatory.
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Yup, only for six months becuse I am what you call a Greek in Diaspora (basically an immigrant that has been living outside Greece for all his life). Of course six months is not a lot but it was enough to tell me that from that army and its training I am not going to learn much!Originally posted by Lars-E
Hmmm....pioneer were you in the Greek army?
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Well, if I was borned then, I would have joined the Roman legions.
If it wasn't that I'm 4F material, I would of signed up on 9/12/01.
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I never did, I just "acquired" an extra shirt after they made me pay for a pair of ancient, busted up gloves that fell from my pocket when I was hauling ammo boxes from a bunker on some tiny island.Originally posted by Lars-E
Jaako, the ppl who wear military effects after their year of service are either farmers or gimpers.
"On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
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Originally posted by Pekka
But Rasbelin what are you talking about? Our army pays good money. 3 euros per day, now that's good for 24h a day!
hehe I got 90-100 kr a day which I think is a lot more than 3 euros.
but I'm sure you gyus had much better equipment
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Army yeuch what a waste of good people.Comment
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I'm a year short of being of age to join the army, but I'm planning on it. So bananna."Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
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tho im 1/2 korean, i was born in seoul, even tho i moved right away to US when i was an infant. So, when the draft notice came, we had to avoid the draft with valid reason (resident of anothe country) This shouldnt have come up if my dad wasnt lazy enough to do paper work to change my citizenship, but nevertheless we forgot about it and I would have been charged with military crime so I went for three months of boot camp during summer while they cleared the papers. My korean family has some deep military background in the marines so thats where i naturally got asigned to. I got off easy tho since they knew id leave and I was son of etc. It was an interesting experience nevertheless.:-pComment
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US Navy. 3 years 1 month 13 days. They call it a kitty cruise. Discharge was automatic 1 day prior to 21st birthday. My birthday was on Sunday that year so they let me out on Friday 24 hours early.Comment
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I've joined the United States Navy for a 6-year hitch. Free Healthcare, housing allowance (when living off base), get to see the world, free education (including tuition for university classes).Originally posted by Tassadar5000
I don't see why anyone would want to go through the amount of lack of control and most of all the brainwashing that goes on...
Enlighten me
Also, it's the Navywide sport to gripe and moan about superiors. Very little brainwashing occurs.
Plus, you make good friends, or, "shipmates" as we would call them in the Navy for life.
The (American) Armed Services also provides a way to improve the adult life of people who come from the lower socio-economic bracket. I have friends I wouldn't have hung out with back home. Or at Texas A&M.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Yes, that's true, but it's still not a real salary, right? It's only the daily "allovance" you get for being nice and being there. Your not awarded for any skills you get, IMO. Compare that to what you basically earn as the salary in the e.g. British army, it's still little as your not paid for being a professional soldier. Reason: if you get there for mandatory service, you don't get paid for it as your real profession. To in a paid army it would be trippled or even more (e.g. 3 x 3 €). And as this little capitalist plan goes on, the army could offer paid services to foreign friendly countries (sidenote: being in the NATO wouldn't make this possible, as they woudn't allow us to charge nice little sumsOriginally posted by Pekka
But Rasbelin what are you talking about? Our army pays good money. 3 euros per day, now that's good for 24h a day!
). This would mean less tax money would have to be spent on the military and we would get an army for highly motivated soldiers that also get paid (not paid some daily "allovance"), plus as you have been waiting for Pekka; some little action every and now and then.
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