Originally Posted by
pajaro
Well, El Senor Presidente, quit sniping at everybody else and knock off derailing this thread. There are many humorous things that happen in the military, war or no war, but you keep sniping at war, and these anecdotes are prevented from being presented. By you and your overzealous crusade against war. We are all against war!! I am a veteran and did my three years, eleven months and twenty-one days. Sat on ground zero--an ICBM launch complex, a big target that couldn't move. You think we enjoyed it? Incoming could arrive at any time. Knock it off. This diatribe against war is naïve, and is preaching to those who already know how terrible it is, and we don't need instruction by those who haven't been there in some way.
Hmmm, I do not remember humorous things happened during my military service.
It was some of the most stupid time in my life.
Here we have compulsory military service duty, but you can choose between military service and alternative civilian service.
I was young and stupid and influenced by my surrounding, so I´ve choosen military service, which I regretted very soon.
Instead of doing something meaningful and help people in the civilian service Iˋve wasted 8 months of my lifetime.
Many of the young guys there learn such important and humorous things like smoking and drinking and wasting their time.
But some really enjoy this club, e.g. because they can dominate others, or those who enjoy being told what to do the whole day, or those who enjoy playing with weapons.
My mother told me: Son when you enter the casern shut down your brain, you can turn it on again when you are out again
And this was a good advise, at least for people who ask and want to get reasons.
Do I now also count as veteran as I served also 8 months?
Or do somebody have to kill or at least shoot at another human to count as veteran?
I see you also counted the days until itˋs over, I did the same thing and it was the best feeling in my life (at that point of time) when I drove out the casern the last time.
Damn I was so happy.....
The only thing which I have to admit that I enjoyed was the target shooting.
Iˋm no weapon fetishist but I liked the precision of the tool in a sportive way.
These days Iˋm a target archer (recurve bow, instinctive shooting) and enjoy the shooting with it. But I would never shoot on an animal or human, only target shooting and 3D parcours (plastic animals).
What was your reason to serve in the military, because as far as I know you do not have a compulsatory military service since quite a time?
Also the same as mine? young and stupid?
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