BurzaP wrote:[NH]Shadow wrote:BurzaP wrote:I have no idea how this things will go but I regret that when I was judged in my eighteens by ability to serve in army I got A.. I could ask for D.
I haven't a clue if there will be any war in Ukraine (or if it has already started, I mean, if we can call occupation this way) but if the answer is positive and we know Ukraine won't win it then I wouldn't be surprised if Russia would like to attack Poland. Blitzkrieg, 1 day and with our 30 000 troops against 700 000 I can't see a future. European countries are obligated to help us but it would already be too late. I'm just only speculating without any real knowledge to the situation but I have bad feelings about this :/
Cześć, Burzap
I didn't know you were in the Polish army...that's pretty cool.
hey, I haven't precised enough. I'm not in army because military service is not obligatory min my country. But my category means that if there is a need they will take me to army without any questions. Hopefully, there will not be such situation. Besides that, I don't think that being in army is cool when it comes down to killing others (and in the end it's what it is for). Sad suits better. No er what for, I just don't like idea of killing and being killed as life is too short anyway. People should fight to keep peace if country is facing aggression and formally I can be one of them but being object of slaughter is nowhere near what I call "cool" :)
A little off topic, but your comment deserves an immediate response. Being in the army or any military for that er, is not, in the end all about killing. It IS about enforcing the will of a ruling government. If that means rescuing someone from a flooded home after a natural disaster, distributing food to starving people, setting up checkpoints, inspection stations, walking patrols on city streets, detaining dangerous or suspicious characters, seizing drugs, guns, hostages; protecting embassies, providing secure communications for diplomats, flying reconnaissance missions to gather imagery and maintain satellites for Global Positioning, planting mines, detecting and disarming mines, deterring or capturing pirates, drug smugglers, gun runners, slave traders; or as in the case of ballistic submarines, just being there to give someone pause before doing the unthinkable...
These things are what a military does before a single shot is fired in anger or any life is taken. Knowing HOW to kill and demonstrating that you can do it goes a long way to achieving these things WITHOUT having to kill. Military service in a country run by good and sane rulers is something that any man or woman should be proud of. You don't have to be a rabid, blood thirsty killer to serve (and provide GOOD service) to your country's military. It DOES mean that you must take it seriously enough to kill as a last resort, but in those cases, I think you could generally be proud of even that service too.