Comment on "Statistically speaking, you won't survive, but you wouldn't in civilian life either tbf"

Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• kossa@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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”.

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  • count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As long as one doesn’t have to hear Gaulish bards sing, it sounds like a comfortable assignment.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe that’s as high as it ever got, but it was definitely a thing.

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  • Mika@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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    • thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then again, life was really short

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t make fun of life they got little legs

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LOL, that’s rough. I should have clarified what I was thinking of the (Western) Roman Empire.

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      • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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