5thElement Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Basically, would you serve for your country in the Army/Navy/Air Force? Yes, no or have you allready done it? Just wondering how many people actually would or wouldn't, considering we're all obviously really into guns/military etc, but if it came down to it, would you do it for real? Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Hell no. Link to post Share on other sites
Connery Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Sometimes I think maybe I wanna join the Army. I mean, it's basically like FPS, only better graphics. But what happens if I get lag out there? I'M DEAD! I mean, I even heard there's no respawn points in RL. Link to post Share on other sites
screamin_weasel Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 i was gonna join, but the recruitment officeer said i couldnt use 'aimhax' as a viable tactic. punkass *badgeress*. in all seriousness, i have plans to join the RAF in a couple of years if nothing better happens for me. Link to post Share on other sites
PariahWolf Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Yes, going to as soon as I can. Been my plan for a long time. Link to post Share on other sites
GuzziHero Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 If the current situation stays stable...then no way. I wouldnt join up to fight for a monarch in any case, although that consideration runs a strong second to the fact that Im unfit and well out of shape! However...if there came a time where Britain was under threat of invasion, Id be near the front of the volunteer queue. Link to post Share on other sites
Eddie182 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Already do, 7 years and counting. Link to post Share on other sites
3n|Gm4 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Yes i will begin next september. Link to post Share on other sites
Mark D. Stroyer Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I'm going in, just as soon as I reach legal age. Three years and counting. Then, "You're in the Army now..." Link to post Share on other sites
PlasticMag Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 It is not my first choice, but were I to be called up I would volunteer to do what I'm best qualified as - irrespective of the consequences (or lack thereof). If I were to enlist (and I am strongly considering it after college) I would go in as a combat medic. This puts it best: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Had asthma as a child so i was turned down for the TA Link to post Share on other sites
billymak Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Yes Only a deskjob mind... Link to post Share on other sites
snowman Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I thought of it many years ago (Navy was my preference), but I ended up in IT and I'm too old now Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
COXY Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Yes, Start my basic training on September 4th at Winchester, Army Air Corps. Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy_Harry Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 nearly did back when I was a wee whipper-snapper knee-high to a grasshopper about 7 years ago. Glad I didn't, all things considered... I'd not join now anyway- I'm not the sort of person anymore who can take orders from anyone (ask nicely, and I'll always say yes. Shout at me and I'll nut you.) and I'm damned if I'm gonig to be used as a tool for what ever tit has managed to persuade the mob to vote for him at the next election. I'd like to say I'd volunteer if ww3 broke out, but as I'm in the wrong country anyway, I'd probably have to get on a boat and sale home which, given how ww3 will probably play out, will mean I'll both be too late for the fighting and will be the only survivor Link to post Share on other sites
Xeno-Morpheus Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I was an engineer. Kinda cool to blow things up :-) I truly miss the KSP58 (swedish name for GPMG or M240 or FN-MAG). Link to post Share on other sites
DazJW Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I'm considering joining the RAF or the Army. But that's not really serving your country these days is it? It's more serving other countries or the 'good of the world', helping out in disaster zones and whatnot. Let's not get into an Iraq debate. I'd certainly be up for protecting England if it was under attack. I wouldn't want to serve my country because it's my country, what England is being turned into isn't fantastic in my opinion, but I'd do it because it's where my family and friends are and because it's mine. Jonny foreigner is going to have to come through me before he takes it away. Edit: Nice topic, hopefully it won't degenerate like many do. Link to post Share on other sites
Spudgun Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 'Been there' and 'done that' for 6 years in the Army between 78 and 84 (Strewth, I'm showing my age here!). As for airsoft and re-enacting.... some habits die hard. It's either that or some people can't leave it alone! Link to post Share on other sites
maccrage Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Already am. 12 years on. Link to post Share on other sites
mig_eater Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Former TA, neck buggered up so i had to leave. As it is then no I wouldn't if the circumstances were right i.e. the horde's are gathering on the other side of the channel, then yes you'd find me behind the nearest assault rifle, however I suspect that if it kicks off anytime soon I would find my country to be on the wrong side of the war. it's a difficult situation that I have been contemplating recently. if I did consider my country to be fighting for the wrong side what would I do? I couldn't fight for it, because it would be morally wrong. I couldn't swap sides because regardless of the politics(which is what it boils down too), I will never fire at my fellow countrymen, whom are too scared, ignorant (amazing how many people see 'them over there' as terrorists who need killing, thank you media ) or fruitcaged by the system to do anything but what they are doing. so that leaves me with two options do nothing as my friends and fellows go off to die or worse, or a medic which I'm not totally convinced I'd have the stomach for, and a red cross just makes a good target nowadays . maybe go into journalism/ war photography, try to ensure that the courage on BOTH sides is shown and try to avoid just becoming part of the propaganda machine. Meh i'm going into politics, the deluded youth who actually thinks he can change things. Cheers Mig Link to post Share on other sites
TheDio Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Heeeelllllllllllll no. Link to post Share on other sites
cobra007 Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Already have,clocked up 12 years. Link to post Share on other sites
Semtex Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I voted yes. If a situation like WW2 ever happened again I would join up. Link to post Share on other sites
Jagdraben Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I was thinking about it before March 2003. Now I'd only join if I'm garaunteed to go to Afghanistan or serve as an MP. Link to post Share on other sites
Moriquende Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 HELL NO. Unless, of course, my country was being attacked by another country. Which will never happen, as we have no oil deposits. Link to post Share on other sites
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