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

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Join at 18 and retire at 43.

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  • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still beats today’s standards

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• massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How much is that in salt?

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  25 years? That seems an awfully long time to be armying about.

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  • kossa@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Mika@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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