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I considered a military career when I was 5.
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A friend's being shipped off to EUFOR Chad /RCA peace keeping mission soon. That's where the action's at :revolution: Central Africa for the win!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKWFLr8eBo
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Yep.. and with Ghadaffi as the new head of the AU, things might get off to a good start. The selfdeclared "brother leader" had 5 "ancient" kings of libya declare him King of Kings for the ceremony. :salute:
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Superhaze wrote:Yep.. and with Ghadaffi as the new head of the AU, things might get off to a good start. The selfdeclared "brother leader" had 5 "ancient" kings of libya declare him King of Kings for the ceremony. :salute:
Oh well. Hist'ry an all that.
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Image

Cool as shit.
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ah, good times...
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Awh that video Kashluk put put isnt there anymore.. or something.
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Re: Im in the army now

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Amis wrote:Im in the army now
Amis wrote:naval...base

:drunk:
does this work
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Fallout ranger, it's an understandable mistake for two reasons:

1) in Finnish conscription system you won't necessarily know where you'll end up (army, navy, air forces) before the very day you begin your service

2) in Finnish language the word armeija, Army, often means the entire Defence Forces, where as Army per se is called maavoimat, Land Forces. The Finnish "army" is divided into three sections: Land, Sea and Air Forces perspectively. The word laivasto, Navy, only appears as a sub-section of "Sea Forces", meaning the people actually serving as ship crews. And since Finland has a quite modest Navy, the word hasn't really "catched on".
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And basicly I was a coastal signalman or whatevs.

In war time I would surely be merged into the ground forces.

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Yup. Amis is/was/would be a part of Navy or Marines organization-wise in English terms, but in Finnish terms he has nothing to do with Navy - he's in the "Sea Forces". Practically all he does is being a plain vanilla grunt in the ground/land forces, with signalman specialization. :che:
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where's your duck and cover badge, son?!
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Kashluk wrote:Yup. Amis is/was/would be a part of Navy or Marines organization-wise in English terms, but in Finnish terms he has nothing to do with Navy
He's basically a Seabee interms of how he operates in that he's Navy, but he really operates mostly on land.
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Interesting lesson in etymology...Valmets?
does this work
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Valmet
VALtion MEtalliTehtaat

Possible translations:
- State Metal Factories
- Metal Factories of State
- State Foundries
- State Metalworks
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Superhaze wrote:Image

Cool as shit.
Yeah, Gaddafi and his "Line of Death", he pulled that play out of the Daffy Duck handbook.

Things didn't work out quite as well as they'd want that monument to indicate.
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I meant these



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I tried to join the army once but they said I was too good and it would damage the other soldiers morale to know they could never be as good as me. Must have been my enormous wang that put them off.
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Originally made by Valmet, later by Sako.

You could probably read more about it at http://world.guns.ru/assault/fi/valmet- ... -95-e.html
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