I believe that’s as high as it ever got, but it was definitely a thing.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
25 years? That seems an awfully long time to be armying about.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mika@piefed.ca 2 months ago
May I challenge you with russian empire
The term of service during the 18th century was for life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_Russian_Empire
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Then again, life was really short
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago Don’t make fun of life they got little legs
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LOL, that’s rough. I should have clarified what I was thinking of the (Western) Roman Empire.
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 months ago
Unfortunately, as the Legion system declined, life terms became common in the Late Roman Empire as well.
Real shit scenario, causes more problems than it solves honestly.
kossa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Then again, like in most other jobs, your schedule wasn’t as packed with fighting compared to today. After all you had to walk to every deployment.
And basically you’d be chilling in some camp and just get a few bruises every other month from some oversized or undersized Gauls, but they’d never kill.
Source: read some source material from eye witnesses, those scrolls known as “the Asterix chronicles”.
count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
As long as one doesn’t have to hear Gaulish bards sing, it sounds like a comfortable assignment.