Get battle hardened veterans train children in military camps. What could possibly go wrong.
Putin’s determined to throw whole generations of Russians into the meat grinder.
Just before Nazi Germany fell Hitler lowered the age for service to 13 years old and raised to 70. I can definitely see Putin doing this as well.
When I think “It would be nice if governments could even try to prepare for the future”…
This is not what I meant.
fun fact: “infantry” comes from “enfant” which is french for “child”
Enfant iirc means “silent one” because they are the class of soldiers that are historically meant to shut up and do whatever the officers say
From Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally “a youth”, either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.
And “soldier” comes from “solidus”, a Roman gold coin. So soldier = one who receives pay. It’s more involved than that but basically yeah.
“Mercenary” also has its roots in “merce” = “goods” or “merchandise”. So mercenary is also rooted in payment. Also Mercurius was the god of among other thing commerce.
Alas we wax etymological!
That’s hardly fun at all!
i know, i thought this one wouldn’t need a /s
It didn’t. It wouldn’t.
Whole stupid article uses American school grades instead of ages, I assume this is for 12? 14? to 18 year olds?
Who says it’s American school grades and not Russian?
Ah thanks. Wont waste my time lol.
This is actually a smart thing to do and we should all be doing it (not you US, sit the fuck down). When I was in high school in Poland, we had territorial defense classes, where we learned first aid, use of personal protection like gas masks, emergency water treatment, signalling etc… Mind you, it was early aughts and nobody thought we’re at any risk of a war breaking out. My parents had the same classes plus shooting training, all as part of general education! Now I live in northern Finland and I have kids that age; nobody teaches them anything remotely related to defense. First aid classes have no practical training. Boys will at least probably learn that when they’re drafted, but girls? Completely defenseless. It’s so short-sighted it hurts.
In the US the group that was mainly responsible for that in the last century or so, would be the Boy Scouts of America, or now Scouting America(?) I think. I don’t remember which of the new names is the actual Boy Scouts, and which one is the Nationalist Christian version.
Whichever one is the actual BSA, they have allowed girls into the scouts since before The Girl Scouts were founded. They just didn’t allow girls in for the first few decades.
I am not sure why someone down voted you. Those are just good life skills all citizens should have. I grew up in Western North Carolina and we had mandatory wildlife classes taught buy a forest ranger. It went over many of the same things including firearm safety. They took it out of schools. Now if parents want their children to have that class they must find a local class being taught and enroll the child. The Boy and Girl Scouts use to teach a lot of the same skills but I don’t see kids joining those. Parents seem to think the sports path and that grift is where their child will learn life skills.
