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WhiteTara

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3. That's the difference between an all volunteer arm;y

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 04:18 PM

Jan 2014

and a conscripted one. You can work the hell out of a volunteer whereas if you do that to a conscripted soldier, it would be considered torture. But we don't really respect our military and use them like work mules and when they're injured we just ignore them.

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