Should have went military academy instead of medical school

[TsarTsar444]

I considered going to the military academy after finishing highschool, my dad's 2nd cousin is a colonel in the army and my uncle is good friends with a minister of the ruling party, so i would have some goverment connections, also my high school grades were nearly perfect, i worked out and would have passed the physical tests as well.

Only 60 people per year are admitted in the military academy compared to 350 admitted to all medical schools. So people knowing you are in there and when you finish and tell people you are a lieutenant or captain is a big status boost.

But alas, the reason i didn't join is:
1. I would need to be stuck in my 2nd world country for the rest of my life, no opurtinuty to work abroad
2. This is tied to the first reason, the army of my country is a joke, i just don't have any nationalist pride to really be proud of my profession, if Yugoslavia was still around though, i wojld have most likely have went tho



@Prettyboy @cloUder

 

[Deleted member 13787]

jfl at working in the macedonian military

 

[TsarTsar444]

jfl at working in the macedonian military

Yeah its a meme, i cry once a month cause of Yugoslavia not existing anymore


@Prettyboy

 

[Moggie]

jfl at working in the macedonian military

still mogs the nzdf

 

[Enfant terrible]

I considered going to the military academy after finishing highschool, my dad's 2nd cousin is a colonel in the army and my uncle is good friends with a minister of the ruling party, so i would have some goverment connections, also my high school grades were nearly perfect, i worked out and would have passed the physical tests as well.

Only 60 people per year are admitted in the military academy compared to 350 admitted to all medical schools. So people knowing you are in there and when you finish and tell people you are a lieutenant or captain is a big status boost.

But alas, the reason i didn't join is:
1. I would need to be stuck in my 2nd world country for the rest of my life, no opurtinuty to work abroad
2. This is tied to the first reason, the army of my country is a joke, i just don't have any nationalist pride to really be proud of my profession, if Yugoslavia was still around though, i wojld have most likely have went tho



@Prettyboy @cloUder

military only worth it in third world countries
become a general
stage coup
become dictator
win

 

[Moggie]

military only worth it in third world countries
become a general
stage coup
become dictator
win

@Tinydragon98

 

[TsarTsar444]

military only worth it in third world countries
become a general
stage coup
become dictator
win

Nah it's worth in every country cause its a chill profession being an officer, they don't have a fixed work time especially at NATO countries, you get paid good money and have free time

 

[Moggie]

 

[Enfant terrible]

Nah it's worth in every country cause its a chill profession being an officer, they don't have a fixed work time especially at NATO countries, you get paid good money and have free time

you can still do it

 

[TsarTsar444]

you can still do it

I can't, you need to be bellow 22yo to join, its supposed to happen ideally from 18 to 22 when you finish and you have the rank of luithentant

 

[Enfant terrible]

I can't, you need to be bellow 22yo to join, its supposed to happen ideally from 18 to 22 when you finish and you have the rank of luithentant

so theres no other way to get a higher rank in the army?

 

[TsarTsar444]

so theres no other way to get a higher rank in the army?

Wdym? You need to be an officer to get ranks, you need to join before 22, thats it.

 

[Yuhbwoynadia]

..... is the military academy part of the actual military ?

 

[TsarTsar444]

..... is the military academy part of the actual military ?

Um yes, military academy is where officers are trained. Enlisted military is if you want to just be a regular soldier

 

[AlexBrown84]

Must be small military if only 60 people are let in a year

 

[AlexBrown84]

And you could prob get liaison job to go work at nato hq in Brussels I’ve seen it happen

 

[Prettyboy]

 

[Moggie]

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defeated by the prussians then became their allies

 

[Enfant terrible]

Wdym? You need to be an officer to get ranks, you need to join before 22, thats it.

in germany you can do it till 29

 

[Danish_Retard]

You'd be stuck doing braindead work in an irrelevant shithole for the rest of your life

 

[TsarTsar444]

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Being an officer in the k.u.k would be my dream (Bosnian elite corps scaring Italians of the frontline like abused dogs.)

"Heroic feats were reported by all the units deployed, in part carried out by young soldiers on their own initiative. It was battles like the one for Monte Fior – and the ensuing decorations of the participating troops – that led to the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry Regiment No. 2 to become known as the “bravest” regiment of the entire k.u.k. army. At any rate, with forty-two Gold Medals for Bravery, it held the highest number of such distinctions in the k.u.k. army."

 

[TsarTsar444]

You'd be stuck doing braindead work in an irrelevant shithole for the rest of your life

Why braindead work? The job of an officer is just going to office a few hours a day, inspecting his troops, and holding military excercises here and there. When you advance in rank high enough you can also apply to become an attaćhe and travel to all around NATO countries in hotels payed by the home goverment

 

[Moggie]

Being an officer in the k.u.k would be my dream (Bosnian elite corps scaring Italians of the frontline like abused dogs.)

"Heroic feats were reported by all the units deployed, in part carried out by young soldiers on their own initiative. It was battles like the one for Monte Fior – and the ensuing decorations of the participating troops – that led to the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry Regiment No. 2 to become known as the “bravest” regiment of the entire k.u.k. army. At any rate, with forty-two Gold Medals for Bravery, it held the highest number of such distinctions in the k.u.k. army."

 

[Prettyboy]

Being an officer in the k.u.k would be my dream (Bosnian elite corps scaring Italians of the frontline like abused dogs.)

"Heroic feats were reported by all the units deployed, in part carried out by young soldiers on their own initiative. It was battles like the one for Monte Fior – and the ensuing decorations of the participating troops – that led to the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry Regiment No. 2 to become known as the “bravest” regiment of the entire k.u.k. army. At any rate, with forty-two Gold Medals for Bravery, it held the highest number of such distinctions in the k.u.k. army."

The Bosnian regiment had its own outfit with red fez hat given to Muslim infantrymen

 

[TsarTsar444]

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The Italian front was absolutely brutal tbh jfl

 

[Moggie]

The Bosnian regiment had its own outfit with red fez hat given to Muslim infantrymen

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reminds me of the French first world war uniforms

 

[TsarTsar444]

The Bosnian regiment had its own outfit with red fez hat given to Muslim infantrymen

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Austro Hungary was based, it respected us bosniaks alot and tried the best they could to create a bosnian nation, they also build more infrastructure in Bosnia in 40 years then Turks did in 400 years.

I read somewhere how Bosniaks were furious when the prince got killed and started hunting down serbs in Bosnia, one of the few reasons for the current hatred between serbs and bosniaks

 

[TsarTsar444]

reminds me of the French first world war uniforms

Looks like a arcade video game tbh, the outfits just make it too jolly and cartoony

 

[Moggie]

Looks like a arcade video game tbh, the outfits just make it too jolly and cartoony

 

[TsarTsar444]

French were such a proud nation and culture once, how far have they fallen its insane jfl

 

[Moggie]

French were such a proud nation and culture once, how far have they fallen its insane jfl

It never began for France

"If the population of France had grown between 1815 and 2000 at the same rate as that of Germany during the same time period, France's population would have been 110 million in 2000, and it doesn't take into account the fact that many more Germans emmigrated to America in the XIX century."

"If France's population had grown at the same rate as that of England and Wales (which was also siphoned off by emigration to the Americas, Australia and New Zealand), France's population could have been as much as 150 million in 2000."

"Until 1795 metropolitan France was the most populous country of Europe, ahead of Russia, and the fourth most populous country in the world, behind only China, India and Japan."

"France population in 1800 : 26,758,000"

"Russia population in 1800 (without Ukraine) : 21,248,000"

List of countries by population in 1800 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"France population in 1900 : 38,900,000"

"Russia population in 1900 : 87,162,000"

List of countries by population in 1900 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"French fertility decline was already being talked about as early as 1778 (so, 11 years before the French Revolution)"

tbf they made a good recovery post world war two

 

[TsarTsar444]

It never began for France

"If the population of France had grown between 1815 and 2000 at the same rate as that of Germany during the same time period, France's population would have been 110 million in 2000, and it doesn't take into account the fact that many more Germans emmigrated to America in the XIX century."

"If France's population had grown at the same rate as that of England and Wales (which was also siphoned off by emigration to the Americas, Australia and New Zealand), France's population could have been as much as 150 million in 2000."

"Until 1795 metropolitan France was the most populous country of Europe, ahead of Russia, and the fourth most populous country in the world, behind only China, India and Japan."

"France population in 1800 : 26,758,000"

"Russia population in 1800 (without Ukraine) : 21,248,000"

List of countries by population in 1800 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"France population in 1900 : 38,900,000"

"Russia population in 1900 : 87,162,000"

List of countries by population in 1900 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"French fertility decline was already being talked about as early as 1778 (so, 11 years before the French Revolution)"

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tbf they made a good recovery post world war two

What could have been the reason of the drastic difference in fertility between Germany and France then?

 

[Moggie]

What could have been the reason of the drastic difference in fertility between Germany and France then?

Imma copy a pretty good reddit answer I found

Indeed historians and demographers have long noted the sluggish performance of the land of joie de vivre. France's population rose by only 39% over the 19th century while all Europe's more than doubled, the country’s share of the European total (including the British Isles and European Russia) falling from over 15% to under a tenth, with French annual growth averaging only 0.33% against a European 0.78% (0.71% leaving out Russia).

The immediate cause is a halving of fertility (by the usual measure, children born per woman completing her childbearing span, at the age-specific rates prevailing at the time) resulting from a still more severe drop in marital fertility (children born per woman within marriage, likewise assuming contemporary age-specific rates), but the ultimate reason remains unclear. The marriage rate itself remained fairly normal at around 8 per thousand, and female age at marriage even fell from a fairly high early 18th-century average in excess of 26 to a spritelier 24 years by 1900. People were marrying and surviving at ages conducive to robust growth, but they just weren’t having the children to go with it.

Mortality remained at moderate levels, expectation of life closely following Britain’s and rising from around 39 years over most of the century to 47 at its end (against a world average of barely 31), a vast improvement over the terrible 28 years or so of the mid-18th century. But marital fertility plunged from the time of the Revolution, general fertility following at a more leisurely rate a decade or so later owing to a temporary rise in marriage in the 1790s. The crude birth rate halved from 38 per thousand c.1780 to 19 per thousand by 1913, barely above the death rate which fell from 34 to a healthier 18. One explanation has been seen in the Revolution's preference for partble inheritance in place of eldest-son-takes-all primogeniture, leading couples to limit births to prevent minute subdivision of holdings. That would matter in a still predominantly rural population where 19th-century urbanisation rose from 18% to just 40%, only half England's level. Wrigley sees fertility as having replaced nuptiality (fewer children per marriage, rather than fewer or later marriages) as the family limitation mechanism.

A recent comparative treatment is Timothy W Guinnane, The historical fertility transition: a guide for economists, in Journal of Economic Literature 49:3 (2011): see also David R Weir, New estimates of nuptiality and marital fertility in France, 1740–1911, Population Studies 48:2 (1994), and EA Wrigley, The fall of marital fertility in nineteenth-century France: exemplar or exception? European Journal of Population 1:1 (1985). Jean Bourgeois-Pichat, Note sur l'evolution general de la population francaise depuis le XVIII siecle, Population 7:2 (1952) remains a valuable source of long-run movements, though some of the data (notably for the 18th century) have been revised by subsequent studies.