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I guess that means there’s a huge pool of younger Ukrainians still to pull from for the military? I’m guessing that’s a good thing for their long term recruiting prospects.
Correct. Ukraine’s current conscription age is 27. They’re discussing reducing it to 25 though.
It’s the opposite. The pool of young people to pull from is smaller everyday.
In this regard, Russia has the advantage where they can just keep throwing more and more bodies into the war without major unrest. Luckily Wagner is gone, as they had the human wave then special forces combo down to a science, but the problem of Russia having exponentially more manpower at their disposal remains unless they begin drafting all Women between ages 18 - 60. Which will likely never happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/europe/ukraine-war-army-women.html
Wow, agism much? I’m no young kid, but I bet I can strategize most of them right off a chess board. War isn’t all that different.
I guess so that physical training they put soldiers through is just for fun.
You mean grabbing Russian prisoners and throwing them on the battlefield with half a clip and a grenade?
Nowadays it’s no clip and half a grenade
This article brought to you by someone who doesn’t understand current era military technology and training and fundamentally doesn’t understand warfare.
Former military here and if I get a 70 year old willing to do paperwork for the army so I can move one more person to labour intensive operations, you bet your ass that old man is getting a pay cheque (assuming he passes the medical quals)
OP constantly spreads pro-Russian propaganda.
Lemmy has been getting hit hard with the propos too
Just curious, why would you need medical quals for paperwork?
The comment by 520 is pretty much spot on. In the event our office areas are attacked every single person in uniform is considered a rifleman, regardless of age gender or creed it is expected that you are to pick up a rifle and return fire as needed or assist with moving injured personnel to a safer location.
An example of medical qualification is wisdom teeth. A fun fact about the military I served with, every single person has their wisdom teeth pulled and gets a shop lecture on proper dental hygiene. The reason for this is so that we don’t have to send a team of 8-10 to return a person from the front due to wisdom teeth issues or hygiene issues causing health problems.
Military job == military target. That means their place of work is a lot more liable to be bombed or attacked, and they’re going to have to be able to react quickly in order to move to safety, possibly including personal firearms training.
43 isn’t that old???
It is for a service member.
I mean if my country was getting attacked I would volunteer at any age.
Eh. I’d look at why we’re getting attacked, the likelihood of us winning, and what’s at stake if we lose.
The unfortunate reality of war is that it’s usually the smart people who flee while the simpletons stay behind and kill each other.
Yeah, my family (whose intelligence I hold in high regard) raised me saying “don’t go off and die in a war.” I’d imagine a lot of other intelligent families did the same.
Q: How can they keep Putin at bay?
A: Probably the same way as usual
