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Could you go to war if needed

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  • #52
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Id go to war against aliens, nothing less.


  • #53
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Probably not. I'm not a fighter. Didn't even fight for my ex. I'm a talker and listener. I'd rather be the person in the back to get our soldiers back on track. There really is very little for me in this world without making one mistake, and it would be fatal to the mission


  • #54
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    We could well be at war at the minute - the evolution of technology means it's become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between 'peace' and 'war'......

    .......this is the era of 'hybrid war'


  • #55
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Only if I got drafted as a necessity because our country, or at a push Europe, was being invaded. Aside from all the clear negatives of war, I think there can be some beauty in it with the brotherhoods you're entered into. I know they're movies and TV shows, but look at the relationships formed between the soldiers in stuff like saving private Ryan and band of brothers, they show clips of the real soldiers and they talk about it all and you just know that they all have complete respect and trust in one another until the day they die. I'd really need to trust the training and preparation soldiers go through though, being forced to fight alongside idiots and emotionally weak people would be more terrifying than anything because then not everyone is looking out for each other.


    Every time I killed someone I'd seriously be shouting "GET FUKING REKT" though...would also have to teabag at least one person.


  • #56
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Only if I got drafted as a necessity because our country, or at a push Europe, was being invaded. Aside from all the clear negatives of war, I think there can be some beauty in it with the brotherhoods you're entered into. I know they're movies and TV shows, but look at the relationships formed between the soldiers in stuff like saving private Ryan and band of brothers, they show clips of the real soldiers and they talk about it all and you just know that they all have complete respect and trust in one another until the day they die. I'd really need to trust the training and preparation soldiers go through though, being forced to fight alongside idiots and emotionally weak people would be more terrifying than anything because then not everyone is looking out for each other.

    There's probably easier ways of savouring bro camaraderie than enlisting for war.


  • #57
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    anncoates wrote: »
    There's probably easier ways of savouring bro camaraderie than enlisting for war.


    No sh!t, but in the case of war you've no choice in who you enter them with and could end up with people you could've previously disliked


  • #58
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    No sh!t,

    On the contrary, rather a surfeit of it.


  • #59
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    anncoates wrote: »
    There's probably easier ways of savouring bro camaraderie than enlisting for war.

    I think if you see a bunch of lads (and lassies) out together who've served in the military together you'd realise there's no other camaraderie like it. There's also no way to partake of it, unless you've served.


  • #60
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Only if I could serve with that crowd in MASH and have of them little jeeps.


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  • #61
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    anncoates wrote: »
    On the contrary, rather a surfeit of it.


    Do you think friendships we can form in regular life are as close as ones soldiers form with their squads when they spend every moment of the day together for months on end and protect and fight for one another's lives?


  • #62
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Do you think friendships we can form in regular life are as close as ones soldiers form with their squads when they spend every moment of the day together for months on end and protect and fight for one another's lives?

    Is that really the point you were making? I assumed you were just into shaving in the trench and rough housing with your bros.


  • #63
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Yes if I am in the carrier pigeon regiment. That way I got dodge the whole fighting scene and I could develop an interest in pigeons.


  • #64
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    anncoates wrote: »
    Is that really the point you were nuking? I assumed you were just into shaving in the trench and rough housing with your bros.


    Yeah, all soldiers do during war is hangout and chill in their trenches and have a laugh passing the time shaving with their "bros". It's a holiday really.


  • #65
    Vomit
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Vomit


    I've always felt that life is kind of pointless, so I'd gladly die while fighting to protect the precious world of iphones, X-factor and celebrity jungle that others seem to derive so much pleasure and meaning from.


  • #66
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    anncoates wrote: »
    Is that really the point you were nuking? I assumed you were just into shaving in the trench and rough housing with your bros.

    I think the best answer I ever heard when a soldier who was heading off to Iraq was asked why he was going. His answer was simplicity itself - "I'm going because he's going."

    Basically, it's all nonsense the rubbish you hear about defending the homeland, preserving peace, freedom and democracy, standing up to tyrants etc. Soldiers fight for the guy or girl next to them - Armies have known that for millennia that's why training is, at its essence, unchanged since the Marian reforms from era of the Roman Republic.


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