I'm DONE with the army!

[T-Dogg]

Damn, I'm happy as hell today! It's been a long time, but as of today, I'm a civilian again! My bit in the Finnish armed forces is over. I (and the whole company, in fact) got real good reviews, and a whole lot of guys got medals & prizes for excellent service. I didn't get any, but I really don't care about that - the important thing is that I'm DONE with the shit and that I got through honorably. It ain't really sunk in yet, but I know that the next time I wake up in my own bed[/], much later than six in the morning, it's gonna feel good as hell...

Shit, tonight it's a party over here...

[dexter]

how long were you in?

[No Compute]

Finland has an army.

[Don Seer]

lol..


ya'll gotta do national service right?  1 year?


congrats on being out since its makin u happy

[Thirteen]

yeah i remmeber you saying you had to go in while back. congrats and it's good to see you made it out.

your sleep might still be fucked up from that though. i know it's been 3 years since i've been in the active military and i still can't sleep right

[Suga Foot]

damn, that would suck if you HAD to join the army.  But props on getting thru it

[T-Dogg]

Seer - depending on whether or not you get leadership training or some other training (e.g. a medic) you serve 6, 9 or 12 months. I was lucky enough to get out with 6. It was a close call though - after the first 8 weeks, which is the same basic training for everybody, I was in the list selected for leadership training and an automatic 12 months of service on the very morning they announced the final list. Luckily for me, they removed me from the final list. I had stated that I was reluctant, thank God they listened.

So, I got the 6 month binge. I'm not exactly the basic soldier though - while the regular riflemen specialize in combat in the woods and basically in the wilderness (which we too had quite enough of), we mostly got special training in urban warfare combat. Shit was cool too. We learned how to attack into and defend buildings, how to fight indoors, hand-to-hand combat training, pistol training, shotgun training, sniper rifle training (which wasn't in the program at first, but got added as a sort of bonus). Plus a good amount of the basic blast-on-the-enemy-in-the-forest-while-dodging-artillery-fire stuff - which is what most of the recruits are taught. Man, that urban warfare shit is fun but hard as hell physically too. Lost a good amount of those extra pounds off my body and gained muscle doing that shit.

And Adon - yeah, it does suck that you HAVE to join the army here. (Although you can also do "civil serice" - work as a cleaner or teacher's assistant or some other crappy job). But, it does give you experiences and training you can't get anywhere else, and it's good for your civil life too. Plus, now I really know what the word TEAM means. I can't say all the dudes in my company are my friends now - there were the dorks, the bullies, the clowns and the straight up dickheads among those 100+ dudes in there. But you learn how to deal with those fuckers there. And then, then there were the cool dudes, those dudes who became almost as close as family to you. I got real lucky also 'cause my group (9 of us "grunts" + 1 leader) grew so tight. In the end there was no "those eight dudes, me and our leader" business, it was just us - group number 5. When on duty, our leader handled his business right, had as giving all we got as he should and organizing us to cover all angles. Off duty, there was no "only speak when you're spoken to, sir yes sir" shit - we could talk to each other as friends, fuck around with each other and laugh about it, and still maintain that respect for each other that we should as a leader and his crew. It was truly great.

All in all - I truly had to go through a lot of shit during those 6 months, all of us there did - push your physical and mental limits, learning to cope with all kinds of shit, dealing with sleep depravation, doing those shitty jobs nobody wanted to do - but all the good things in there go way beyond that shit. I'm happy as hell it's over, but I'm happy as hell I did it too.

['Illicit']

congrats. Germany has conscription too, but lucky me i got dual-citizenship so I aint gotta go.

[Da WCC Hopar!]

congrats man

[[sepehr]]

Congrats man, it's been hella long

[Thuglife]

shiiiiiit finland, why the fuck would they need an army if they dont have any enemies...shit makes no sense, props tho

[ABN]

shiiiiiit finland, why the fuck would they need an army if they dont have any enemies...shit makes no sense, props tho

maybe it´s because of their history? they have been at war several times in the past so it´s a pretty logic decision for Finland to have an army.

[Lil White Azz]

Congrats T-Dogg....my time comes next january.....

[Caution2006]

congrats man

[CRAFTY]

Congratulations man...good to see you back