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Drafted into the military. What field do you choose?

Armoured
56
13%
Artillery
65
15%
Engineer
55
13%
Infantry
54
12%
Helicopter pilot
25
6%
Fighter pilot
41
9%
Submariner
19
4%
Sailor
29
7%
Signals
38
9%
Paramedic
52
12%
 
Total votes : 434

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Theodosiya
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Postby Theodosiya » Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:52 am

Just remembered, if i got drafted, I'll ask if i could purchase some stuff. In case i don't get enough ammo, vest or helmet.
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Postby Telconi » Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:57 am

Thermodolia wrote:
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Because forcing a person to fight a war via threat is an absolutely terrible thing. Slave soldiers are wrong, and no amount of pomp and circumstance and flag waving 'patriots' makes a draft without the capacity to object to service anything other than the capture of slave soldiers.

Interesting I'd think that you of all people would be completely for it


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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:02 am

New Clearland wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:Because overconfidence is fucking dumb.


So are most of Russia's claims about... well everything.

It's better to be weary than to be overconfident.
Also while this is just a training exercise it still shows that they can be shot down. https://www.wired.com/2007/07/first-f-22-rapt/
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:03 am

Theodosiya wrote:Just remembered, if i got drafted, I'll ask if i could purchase some stuff. In case i don't get enough ammo, vest or helmet.

Wait you actually would have to buy that stuff? They don't just give it to you?
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Postby Great Minarchistan » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:03 am

Always go to the Marines and Navy branches. Unless if you are literally Great Britain, it's the most useless and calm place among all the military fields.
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Postby Frank Zipper » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:05 am

Ifreann wrote:
Frank Zipper wrote:Why anyone would want to be trapped in a metal box with a bagpiper is beyond me.

Because outside the metal box there are inexplicably world conquering North Koreans.


I'd take my chances with the Norks.
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The Interstellar Federation
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Postby The Interstellar Federation » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:05 am

Strategic Missile Corps. Hey, if they nuke us, we'll nuke em back!
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:11 am

Great Minarchistan wrote:Always go to the Marines and Navy branches. Unless if you are literally Great Britain, it's the most useless and calm place among all the military fields.

The fuck you talking about? Marines are exact opposite of calm
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Postby Fartsniffage » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:30 am

Artillery. Because I already know how to do it...

And you get a lighter pack, and a truck to keep your wok and spice collection in.
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Postby San Marlindo » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:31 am

Bah, such limited MOS options in the poll.

Where is MP?
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:31 am

San Marlindo wrote:Bah, such limited MOS options in the poll.

Where is MP?

Heh I was wondering the same thing
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Postby Great Minarchistan » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:38 am

Thermodolia wrote:
Great Minarchistan wrote:Always go to the Marines and Navy branches. Unless if you are literally Great Britain, it's the most useless and calm place among all the military fields.

The fuck you talking about? Marines are exact opposite of calm


Better than the full shitstorm of infantry/land army and air force.
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:42 am

Great Minarchistan wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:The fuck you talking about? Marines are exact opposite of calm


Better than the full shitstorm of infantry/land army and air force.

In guessing that you've never heard of the USMC before?

They have infantry and air units.
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Postby Great Minarchistan » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:45 am

Thermodolia wrote:
Great Minarchistan wrote:
Better than the full shitstorm of infantry/land army and air force.

In guessing that you've never heard of the USMC before?

They have infantry and air units.


Right, any shit where you stand in a ship is the best branch of military.
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Postby Domina Imperium » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:47 am

Siege Engineer. I have very little upper body strength, so swinging a sword would be hard for me.

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Swindenland
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Postby Swindenland » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:48 am

I would flee to Ecuador and get fake passports, nothing else.

Many people even today flee to Ecuador, although mostly criminals.
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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:49 am

My surviving grandfather was an artilleryman in Korea, and it sounds like it was a pretty comfy job, mainly because he got to be far away from the front.
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Iudaei
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Postby Iudaei » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:50 am

like North Korea is any threat, they are the threatened.


one reason they are the bad guy, No rothschild central bank,

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Postby Old Tyrannia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:55 am

Pasong Tirad wrote:
Telconi wrote:
It's the toilet that does it too...

Ohgod British tanks have a toilet and a teamaker all it needs is a middle-aged butler and a guy in a kilt with bagpipes and we're golden.

Well, I don't believe that every British tank has its own assigned piper, but the Royal Regiment of Scotland does have a pipe band assigned to every battalion. Historically they have played in the midst of battle to rally Scottish troops and intimidate the enemy. Pipers played on the battlefields of World War I, and despite playing the pipes in battle being banned by the War Office due to the high casualties amongst pipers, one piper even played his pipes on the beaches at D-Day.
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Pasong Tirad wrote:Ohgod British tanks have a toilet and a teamaker all it needs is a middle-aged butler and a guy in a kilt with bagpipes and we're golden.

Who do you think is crewing the tank? Sergeant Butler and Captain Kilty McScottish.

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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:56 am

Great Minarchistan wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:In guessing that you've never heard of the USMC before?

They have infantry and air units.


Right, any shit where you stand in a ship is the best branch of military.

Whatever you say. Personally I'm a landlubber
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:57 am

Iudaei wrote:like North Korea is any threat, they are the threatened.


one reason they are the bad guy, No rothschild central bank,

What the fuck?
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Postby Spartan Hellas » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:02 am

Navy, because I have a far-less chance of dying in a war I didn't want to fight in.
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Postby Neu Leonstein » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:04 am

With my skill set, probably some sort of military intelligence analyst. Also has the advantage of being far away from the loud noises.
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Postby The Celtic Union of Ireland » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:06 am

Probably artillery, it would allow me to be on the ground but also be (most likely) a good while away from the front lines

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Postby Fartsniffage » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:06 am

Neu Leonstein wrote:With my skill set, probably some sort of military intelligence analyst. Also has the advantage of being far away from the loud noises.


But the 8th rule of conscription states that if it's your first war then you have to fight.

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