How much is that in salt?
"Statistically speaking, you won't survive, but you wouldn't in civilian life either tbf"
Submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to historymemes@piefed.social
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massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 months ago Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
25 years? That seems an awfully long time to be armying about.
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.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I believe that’s as high as it ever got, but it was definitely a thing.
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
blue_morpho@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Join at 18 and retire at 43.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 months ago
Still beats today’s standards