National Service Thread - I bent knees to morons and felt ill for 11 months

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Miloshe: Oct 25, 2009; The little chicken girl wants me to ease up!
He can't handle!
He cries like woman!

Ataxerxes posted:

My dad had the same, went in at 26 because he had gotten it deferred due to studies.

Also, back in 2002 it was for us very much like you describe for the NVA. Having a long ground border to Russia is kinda the reason most people take the service rather seriously still. Drills, camping in tent for weeks (though for my unit not for several weeks in a row), the works.
One of my strangest memories was marching in a parade like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdp3LWlyuso

There were cops on horses in front of us and one horse started making GBS threads on the street a few meters ahead of the company. There was no space to avoid it, so one line of the marching soldiers stomped straight through the fresh shitheap, splashing it everywhere.

That is some of the sloppiest drill I have ever loving seen and it makes me love the Finns all the more for it.

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Miloshe: Oct 25, 2009; The little chicken girl wants me to ease up!
He can't handle!
He cries like woman!

So in the USMC from the first day of bootcamp you are forced to submit to rote memory institutionalized "knowledge" of the history of the Corps. Absolute horse poo poo that would make an intelligent 5th grader embarrassed to recite, such as the first commandant, highly decorated Marines, the names of battles like Chosin and Hue City. Apparently it's supposed to imbue a sense of tradition.

If there's anything comparable in conscripted forces I'd be interested to hear about it, especially those sharing land borders with Russia. Did you receive similar simplistic propaganda? Was it openly discussed who you were preparing to go to war with? What kind of unique national military history was taught and how?

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