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I was reading a thread elsewhere on the crap that was routine with basic training in the US Army - stuff like having to get a smallpox shot that caused your arm to be in constant pain, not helped by all the push-ups, having to wake up for 2 hours in rotation every night for firewatch, etc. Of course, it's a trope of the whole shouting drill instructors and such. I'm curious as to what that experience is like in other countries, especially those with compulsory service - I forget if South Korea still does this, Israel, etc. - but volunteer military service is fine too. If you can speak to this, or have interesting stories, I'd love to hear them.
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You might have better luck here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3808722 GiP has a few people from non-US militaries floating around, including a guy from Finland who decided to come here and join the US Army as a medic. He posts in the army thread regularly, but has posted in that one as well.
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Feb 13, 2017 20:27
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From what I've heard it's basically the same in the Australian Army. No personal training punishment anymore, I don't think they can make you do pushups for instance, but the yelling and getting up at stupid times and generally being ordered around like a child seems to be par for the course. Particularly the Army, it's the 'bogans' that go into the Army because squatting in dust and being dirty as poo poo is their default state anyway. I now work in Defence consulting which is very lucrative but I do daily deal with ex and current Defence people and they're all basically retarded in some way or another. If not socially then cognitively. It's all aimed at a certain demographic which is good because I don't really know what that demographic would do if not to be Army people.
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Tony Montana posted:Defence people and they're all basically retarded in some way or another. If not socially then cognitively. Apparently standards have improved since back when my relatives were in the service (long before I was born but post-Vietnam). It was mostly people running from something since you were likely to be parked either in the middle of nowhere or overseas.
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