Low Information Voter on Nostr: 100%. I do think conscript armies have it much worse. No government gives a toss ...
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I do think conscript armies have it much worse. No government gives a toss about conscripts - they're literally free as in beer, and if their families had any clout they would have gotten exemptions.
Finns I've spoken to have the least-negative experience of National Service. Theirs is merely useless. They leave knowing how to direct traffic, and how to salute snappily for the patriotic propaganda videos their govt makes. Waste of half a year.
Israelis I've spoken to have the most-negative reports. Airforce as well as Army. Pretty girls get used as sex toys by NCOs and officers, other girls learn cleaning and not much more. Boys learn to keep in step, and individual soldier skills, but no more than the first few weeks in any Western army. The issued equipment is third world, and they're not taught simple things like lifting procedures. No wonder they're doing poorly against people they out-gun thousands to one.
Conscription-based armies suck. I guarantee Ukrainian service in the combat zone is if anything even worse than Russian for exactly this reason.
I do think conscript armies have it much worse. No government gives a toss about conscripts - they're literally free as in beer, and if their families had any clout they would have gotten exemptions.
Finns I've spoken to have the least-negative experience of National Service. Theirs is merely useless. They leave knowing how to direct traffic, and how to salute snappily for the patriotic propaganda videos their govt makes. Waste of half a year.
Israelis I've spoken to have the most-negative reports. Airforce as well as Army. Pretty girls get used as sex toys by NCOs and officers, other girls learn cleaning and not much more. Boys learn to keep in step, and individual soldier skills, but no more than the first few weeks in any Western army. The issued equipment is third world, and they're not taught simple things like lifting procedures. No wonder they're doing poorly against people they out-gun thousands to one.
Conscription-based armies suck. I guarantee Ukrainian service in the combat zone is if anything even worse than Russian for exactly this reason.