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Ataxerxes posted:Also, there is a thing contrasted to the US I have noticed while reading these forums. To me it seems that any person who has been in the various US services is considered a veteran. While this might technically be true to persons who have served in any army it really isn't used that way in Finland. Usually if you talk about veterans it means veterans of WW2 (since Finland hasn't been in an actual shooting war inside its borders since that), or the rare few who have seen combat in the armies of other nations (for example in the French Foreign Legion). If you have the official status of veteran you get certain benefits. Since quite a few Finns have been UN Peacekeepers I think there has been talk of recognizing them as "veterans of crisis management", to recognize their efforts but to tell them apart from the veterans of WW2. I would be weirded out if I was called a veteran, since while I did my national service I have never been close to a situation where I could have gotten shot at by actual hostile combatants. Same goes for Norway, you have to be deployed overseas with NATO or otherwise for a set amount of time to be counted as a veteran by the authorities. I've been deployed with the Navy on a NATO article 5 operation, but the duration wasn't long enough to qualify for veteran status 
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The best meal I had during my conscript year was the frozen pizza the cooks fixed up for lunch one Sunday in Crete while I was on duty, hungover as poo poo. The cooks came back to the boat after we did NATO deployments to the Mediterranean in the mid 00's were rough. The worst? Whatever we had for lunch in the North of Norway a few months later, just before a mandatory, on-shore 2 mile run. I don't remember what it was, only that it wanted to get out again, mid-run, in a bloody hurry.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Omelets were the one thing that was never ever bad in the Navy. Y'all didn't get bacon pancakes on Sundays? 
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