Would You Make a Good Soldier?
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Without any training, I would be the VERY first one dead. No question. Especially if my "skills" in FPS equaled to training.
Pfffh ... no ...
Give me 50 pounds of gold and safe passage out of a warzone, I'd probably shoot my sargeant in the back and hightail it out of there.
Fuck governments and their petty struggles ... I'm in it for the dough #.#
Give me 50 pounds of gold and safe passage out of a warzone, I'd probably shoot my sargeant in the back and hightail it out of there.
Fuck governments and their petty struggles ... I'm in it for the dough #.#
If you are inclined, I would very much like to read this story!zHellas said:
"...*that's* Krull the Berserk Barbarian."
"Yes."
"...the one planting corn in the field."
"It's his victory garden."
"That field is too big to be a garden! And why corn?"
"He likes big gardens. Also, he enjoys a balanced diet."
Unquestioning obedience repels me. So no. Still thinking of joining the reserves, for some reason. Probably the lucrative [for a student] pay. And the chance to fire a weapon.
I'd make a lousy soldier, but a pretty damn efficient mercenary.
I get particularly disinclined to cooperate and do as instructed when it comes from some kind of officer-type mouthing off and basically threaten to have me thrown in prison for treason/desertion if I don't do exactly as im told and even die trying.
I do however get a lot more motivated and sharp knowing that there's a sizeable payday to look forward to, and that im in a hostile and lousy situation of my own free will rather than being forced into being there because the government tells me to.
I get particularly disinclined to cooperate and do as instructed when it comes from some kind of officer-type mouthing off and basically threaten to have me thrown in prison for treason/desertion if I don't do exactly as im told and even die trying.
I do however get a lot more motivated and sharp knowing that there's a sizeable payday to look forward to, and that im in a hostile and lousy situation of my own free will rather than being forced into being there because the government tells me to.
If I were to become a soldier I'd promptly disregard everything I've ever done in a game and act like a rational human in actual danger.
If I were thrown into a Battlefield, I would make a terrible soldier :
-I don't have the physical condition (I am not that much into sports)
-I couldn't shoot for shit (I never handled any firearms)
-I don't know the basics of real-life tactics
Plus, I don't know how I would react under such pressure and how I would face deadly danger since I've never delt with it.
You should go to my country, public college is better than the private ones, and it's almost free (at least for now. It's about 300?/Year.)
-I don't have the physical condition (I am not that much into sports)
-I couldn't shoot for shit (I never handled any firearms)
-I don't know the basics of real-life tactics
Plus, I don't know how I would react under such pressure and how I would face deadly danger since I've never delt with it.
That's sad. Risking getting killed or seriously injured in exchange for a good education. That's about as unfair as it gets...
You should go to my country, public college is better than the private ones, and it's almost free (at least for now. It's about 300?/Year.)
I do the paintball/airsoft thing, and midieval re-enactment stuff. The gun stuff, I'm pretty damn good at, the midieval stuff, I'm average.
If I got drafted for modern war, I'd probably get booted out, due to not wanting to follow a sheperd looking for mindless sheep. I respect the military and soldiers, though not always the orders they are given. That's politics, however.
If someone attacked over here, I'd be a damn fine soldier on my own behalf, working with like-minded people. I love my country and countrymen, and that I could and would fight for.
Video-game play vs. real life is totally different, however. In some games, I get smoted--others, I rock. It's all UI at that point.
If I got drafted for modern war, I'd probably get booted out, due to not wanting to follow a sheperd looking for mindless sheep. I respect the military and soldiers, though not always the orders they are given. That's politics, however.
If someone attacked over here, I'd be a damn fine soldier on my own behalf, working with like-minded people. I love my country and countrymen, and that I could and would fight for.
Video-game play vs. real life is totally different, however. In some games, I get smoted--others, I rock. It's all UI at that point.
I've wanted to read a story about such a villain!zHellas said:
Also, I always cheer the underdogs. Kind & Naïve Half-Orcs/Orcs sound a whole lot more interesting than the usual "Orcs are bad, they make good fodder" type of story. I haven't read a good Orc story since R.A. Salvatore's King Obould Many-Arrows established the first diplomatically and economically stable Orc State.
I am the fast moving, grenade throwing, limited thinking, multi-killing type. So yes, I'd be a good soldier for about 45 seconds. But what a glorious 45 seconds they would be...
No, I certainly don't think I would.
Even disregarding the facts that I've never fired a gun in my life (though I'd like to, I think it'd be interesting) and that I'm not physically fit enough (I don't think I'm especially unfit, just not fit enough for military standards), I'd be a bloody terrible soldier purely because my personality wouldn't mesh well with required military discipline.
I'm a very individualistic person and am not a fan of the whole idea of unquestioning obedience to "superior" figures of authority. In all likelihood, even if I could pass the fitness requirements and shoot worth a damn, I'd still be booted out pretty sharpish when my CO gave me an order I didn't agree with and I told them to go fuck themselves.
Even disregarding the facts that I've never fired a gun in my life (though I'd like to, I think it'd be interesting) and that I'm not physically fit enough (I don't think I'm especially unfit, just not fit enough for military standards), I'd be a bloody terrible soldier purely because my personality wouldn't mesh well with required military discipline.
I'm a very individualistic person and am not a fan of the whole idea of unquestioning obedience to "superior" figures of authority. In all likelihood, even if I could pass the fitness requirements and shoot worth a damn, I'd still be booted out pretty sharpish when my CO gave me an order I didn't agree with and I told them to go fuck themselves.