A lot of people here often wonders why 1st world city state like Singapore has conscription, while a formerly military junta like us doesn't. Sometimes it becomes tricky to explain them that we ourselves being part of the reason.
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Originally Posted by willx
What if we just like to stand around making sounds like "Boom!" and "Pow!" 
Actually, I never joined the military myself, but I do have a few friends that did .. and I just like guns. This may be nothing to you military folk, but man.. when I was in Vegas, firing a tripod mounted Browning 1919 was FANTASTICO!
All signs point to .. BOOM! |
My late grandfather was a veteran of both independence and civil wars, and was then assigned to govern Maluku province to deal with separatism
(it was when Southern Moluccan terrorism was in its peak.)