According to witnesses, police divide those at the gym into citizens and non-citizens. Russians are taken to enlistment offices, where their military records are checked.
Non-citizens are accused of immigration violations and given a choice: deportation, or enlistment in the army, according to Current Time, an independent Russian news platform.
It’s not necessarily as easy as you’d think. It’s not like they point you towards the enemy and then you can go wherever you please.
You’re with your squad, and desertion is kinda frowned upon.
Time to bring back the age old tradition of fragging. Also sandbagging, blazing maintenance and logs, blazing quals, sleeping on post, making up inventories and malingering.
I’ve been through my conscription. I enjoyed it. Mostly because I knew it was mostly larping and not real war.
(Yeah that’s the backside of my dogtags, and thus empty. I’m hardly gonna dox myself my photographing my social security number, lol.)
Unlike in Russia, where conscription currently leads to being fed to a meat grinder.
Currently active duty US Navy, enlisted, contract ends next year (if they let it end). I don’t think upper brass understands the level of shenanigans we will get up to and they will never know about. Or the level we already get to on the regular, including on nuclear weapons platforms and carrier strike groups. The amount of gundecking right now is already “I can’t believe this thing still floats” levels. I’d love to see what it looks like when every sailor’s a disgruntled insider threat.
Ah. You wouldn’t believe how much I miss the shenanigans. (Only once did I wake up in the brig, but I was banned from leave a few times.)
The movies really don’t exaggerate it that much, lol.
I always tell people, the most realistic depiction of sailors is Down Periscope, and they never believe me lol
I believe you.