Topic: Mandatory Military Service a good idea or a bad one?

LeEnfield · April 14th, 2008

Now I was conscripted into the British Army, now i was only weeks away from sitting my finial exams as a Electrical Engineer. I could get a waver but I had to agree to sign on for a minimum of 11 years. as you can guess I refused. Now after ten weeks training I shipped of to foreign parts to fight for Queen & Country and I wound up in one of the top British regiments who where the first into action. I spent nearly 18 months fighting to stay alive and the campaigns we fought in had casualty rates that make today's British casualty figures for Iraq and Afghanistan look small in comparison, now becuase we were conscripted the government did not treated as proper soldiers and we only got half the pay of a regular soldier. Come demob you handed in your uniform and you were left to fend for your self with only the remains of your last weeks pay in your pocket.
The British Conscript soldiers fought in all the campaigns from 1945 to the early 1960's
and you will not find any Army commander complaining about they way handled themselves or the courage that they showed. There is a site called British Small Wars which covers most of these battles from 1945, and the only year a British soldier was killed on ACTIVE Service was 1969.
Now if Canada wants to do some thing then why not teach all college students the basics about the military as a part of their course work so that their would always be a large pool of semi trained people available in an emergency

April 14th, 2008
LeEnfield Tribuni Angusticlavii Gear	Now I was conscripted into the British Army, now i was only weeks away from sitting my finial exams as a Electrical Engineer. I could get a waver but I had to agree to sign on for a minimum of 11 years. as you can guess I refused. Now after ten weeks training I shipped of to foreign parts to fight for Queen & Country and I wound up in one of the top British regiments who where the first into action. I spent nearly 18 months fighting to stay alive and the campaigns we fought in had casualty rates that make today's British casualty figures for Iraq and Afghanistan look small in comparison, now becuase we were conscripted the government did not treated as proper soldiers and we only got half the pay of a regular soldier. Come demob you handed in your uniform and you were left to fend for your self with only the remains of your last weeks pay in your pocket. The British Conscript soldiers fought in all the campaigns from 1945 to the early 1960's and you will not find any Army commander complaining about they way handled themselves or the courage that they showed. There is a site called British Small Wars which covers most of these battles from 1945, and the only year a British soldier was killed on ACTIVE Service was 1969. Now if Canada wants to do some thing then why not teach all college students the basics about the military as a part of their course work so that their would always be a large pool of semi trained people available in an emergency __________________ LeEnfield Rides again Last edited by LeEnfield : April 14th, 2008 at 09:41.