What does a Military do?

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Which country are you from? It may help to know. One of my Korean friends was a translator/worked in the offices for their compulsory enlistment, my Norwegian was stationed at a base and just did guard duty..He was very bored.

I have no idea about military, but to cheer you up: men in uniform are sexy :P

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Depends on the nation.

I volunteered to join, so far so good. Been there since Januari 2015.

Most of the time you will be doing training which can be practical (out on the field) or in a classroom. After that you will have your maintenance (weapons, gear and vehicles.) Also you will find yourself having ALOT of free time PAST the initial training weeks. (So in the evenings you will be drinking lager or playing games out of boredom.)

Question for you: What country you will be serving in? You already know your branch/designation? Because your daily work will vary a lot if you are for example a mechanic or a medic instead of a grunt.

never volunteer for anything in the army, most of the time you'll clean external toilets with your own toothbrush.

Training and waiting, mostly waiting. I think that's same pretty much same everywhere. Always in a hurry to go wait for something. Depends a lot on your service branch and tasks though and you have such a long service time. During initial training there is less free time, but after that it's most likely you'll have more free time.

Luckily I only had a 6 month service, which is required by law here.
I also lucked out that due to my bad eyesight it was determined I would not be combat effective if my glasses would break. As a result I was I was offered a move to "B"-category service, which I accepted. Essentially that meant that I was in a support company. Originally I was assigned to combat engineers. Anyhow after the initial training I ended up in the brigade HQ and pretty much had an office job there for most of the remaining service (still had some training now and then).

Forced by law or...?

Every military is different. Some do more then others. For example, here in Canada we are not forced to join the military. Our Military does physical training most of the time. There are different parts of the military, and each part has its own requirements though usually there is basic training for everything and you go onto other stuff after that when you specialize in something.

Our military almost never gets deployed on our own soil. It has happened but not to fight anyone (We did kick the Americans butts a couple of times, but that was before it was actually a Canadian military, btw guys, that White House of your is lookin good now that its rebuilt. ;) ), it was because certain areas got hit with nasty weather and the military was needed to help move snow and large trees. They have also been used to help deliver supplies to areas that have been cut off due to flooding and road/bridge collapse.

Outside of Canada we have gone to fight wars, but we have also gone to bring supplies to places that have been hit with natural disasters. We have specific teams setup to be one of the first groups into a place to help bring fresh water and shelter to people.

So depending on your military, you could be doing some very different things.

No I'm not in the military but I have had friends and family in the military.

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I don't have any first hand experience but I do have some hearsay if you want it. I can type it when I'm at my computer. Good luck! I'm sure it will be better than you expect

If we are talking about Conscription, then yeah. I have served in the army.

I just can say :

This too shall pass.

Don't think much about it and don't busy your mind with thinking about it.
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I have a friend who lies in Greece that had to join the military out of necessity (it might have been required, not sure though), their navy to be more specific. It never sounded like he did much, but he stayed there for 2 years and occasionally had free time for video games and such.

Tell them you are a gamer, maybe you are lucky and you will be assigned to control drones and/or missiles and such.

military service is compulsory here, but theres also a basic military that you can join on your last year of school, and its basically you do army stuff over the weekends for a year.

We excessive, learn some survival and army stuff, salute a lot and sometimes shot guns, it wasent that bad, but i didnt do it for 2 years everyday D:, Good luck.

Never had to because of medical reasons its not really something, but whined to a doctor a while before the examination, and that was enough

Thank you for the gibs and have a nice day. And good luck, don't think it will be that hard. A freind of mine had to protect some military Komplex in the middle of nowhere for a year ^^ So rather boring than exciting/dangerous.

A few basic rules to keep you away from trouble:

• Do what they say
• Do it right
• Don't discuss the orders
• Do not desert!

I was forcefully enlisted as well, not as long though. Mostly you just hurry to one place to wait there. Also you learn to sleep in the most unlikely places. 200 kilometers of crappy roads on a pile of metal stoves and sharp tent poles comes to mind.

In the beginning it is definitely harder, not including that you just arent used to it yet. If you cant, they teach you, if you dont want to, well... they will make you. Beginning phase, everything is done to break your individuality and instill discipline, it makes sense really, no egoist will rush into a place where he can get hurt, while a member of a greater whole will.

After initial phase, you will get specialized job - medic, AT man, heavy gunner, whatever. I was a mortarman, it was really fun at times. I calculated the sights using various tables and transmitted those to the teams (3 81 mm mortarts in my platoon) and watched hail of destruction rain down on the target area kilometers away, thinking: "I caused that to happen"

Overall, I dont think it as wasted time now, although I did at times when I was under conscription. Making your ****ing bed 40-50 times in a day will make you wish for global ebola endemic. I dont think it "made a man out of me," but at the very least I was in excellent form when I got out and now years later I ca n still fall asleep with the drop of a hat.

They will make you wash their toilets

Most armed forces today have "cyber-defense" units. If you computer skills don't grab their attention, think of it as useful experience, you'll probably learn some nifty things.

If males get forced to enlist, I hope females will have too, one day.

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I was in Italian Army for 2 years... first year was hard.. hard work, hard exercises, morning and night, no matter, etc... last years was... fun.. new friends, during the day light work and night disco... best years in my life :D
why only second year was fun? because in the second year come other guys for their first year, and the instructors are focused on this guys, not more on the "second years soldiers"