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Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:45 am
by Christopher
Are you back for a while then? You have been missed around here! :)

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:50 pm
by josh
When the rest of the world invades America spare me, hopefully you don't go thru some of the hard ships my friends who joined the US Marines had to go thru ( sleeping on ground in desert for 4 months as part of training, stuff like that ). Best of luck

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:37 pm
by kaisellgren
arborint wrote:Are you back for a while then? You have been missed around here! :)
Good to hear. :) I'm free this weekend (Friday night - Sunday night). The same thing applies to next week, but after that I'm gonna be away a little longer.
josh wrote:When the rest of the world invades America spare me, hopefully you don't go thru some of the hard ships my friends who joined the US Marines had to go thru ( sleeping on ground in desert for 4 months as part of training, stuff like that ). Best of luck
I'm in a unit that trains leaders so most of the stuff is not overwhelming, but next week (Monday-Friday) we are gonna live in a forest and sleep on ground with a sleeping bag filled with holes. No tents, so I hope the weather is warm. On Monday, we will march 20 miles with full combat equipment (90 pounds) until we reach the forest where we are gonna sleep and spend the entire week on practicing how to dig foxholes and things like that. It surely makes your muscles hurt a bit, but you get used to it quickly. It's not all that horrible. The food is great, very healthy and you never get hungry (literally). My weight has risen by roughly 12 pounds and it's because my muscles got bigger (my abs are starting to show up nicely :P).

The thing I hate most is marching with a gas-mask (M/95). You just can't breath with it.

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:47 pm
by califdon
kaisellgren wrote:
arborint wrote:Are you back for a while then? You have been missed around here! :)
The thing I hate most is marching with a gas-mask (M/95). You just can't breath with it.
On the other hand, if you were in combat and poison gas was being used, you couldn't breathe without it!

The thing to worry about in the forest is ticks and poisonous plants (if you have such in Finland--we do in some parts of the USA).

Anyway, I respect you for your cheerful attitude.

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:55 pm
by Eran
On the other hand, if you were in combat and poison gas was being used, you couldn't breathe without it!
lets be real here, the last time poison gas was used extensively was WWI and also sparingly in WWII. In addition, most poison gas attacks attack through the skin as well (for this reason carbon-based protective gear is used in conjunction with masks in most gas drills).

Those "accessories" are mostly there to increase the difficulty of the training.

By the way, can I join your army perhaps, Kai? never heard of tasty army food, ours is so bad you'd rather eat those gas masks.

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:12 pm
by kaisellgren
Our nature is harmless. You can walk with bare feet.
pytrin wrote:most poison gas attacks attack through the skin as well
Indeed. We were testing our gas masks and suits in a room filled with some poisonous gas (which was of course diluted). My gas mask was fine but my suit was leaking somewhere and my arms started tingling and became red.
pytrin wrote:By the way, can I join your army perhaps, Kai? never heard of tasty army food, ours is so bad you'd rather eat those gas masks.
Be my guest. :) Yesterday I ate this food with yummy chocolate dessert cream for lunch.

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:39 pm
by Eran
Yesterday I ate this food with yummy chocolate dessert cream for lunch
sign me up, right now ;)

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:51 pm
by Christopher
kaisellgren wrote:Be my guest. :) Yesterday I ate this food with yummy chocolate dessert cream for lunch.
Maybe it is the close-up, but that looks like how dinner might appear AFTER drinking a bottle of vodka! ;)

Re: I will be gone for a while within 2 weeks.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:48 am
by Paul Arnold
I think it's great that Finland has this national service system.
If we still had it in England it might give a few people a kick up the arse and the country wouldn't be going to <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> (well, less so).