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Could you go to war if needed

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  • #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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