If conscription was announced..

I weigh a whole 9 stone and a 6 pint milk is my bicep curl. I'd emigrate. The vast majority of women could do a better job than me.

Reply 21

YorkieLad101

Original post by Overmars

Women can't go. They're ****ing garbage on COD, they'd only embarrass themselves on the real stage.

is COD like real life? Not exactly...

Reply 22

daisydaffodil

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I'm disabled so what happens to me? Do I get to fight or do I have to do some other kind of work? :ninjagirl:

Reply 23

Overmars

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Original post by YorkieLad101

is COD like real life? Not exactly...

We have a sharp one here...

Btw, would you say you're representative of the average Yorkshireman?

Reply 24

Zarogue

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Original post by Tootles

Oh, dear. I'm a conscientious objector, what would happen to me?

William Harold Coltman was a C.O. in WW1, he volunteered for service as a stretcher bearer and ended up winning the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal. The last two he won twice each.

Reply 25

YorkieLad101

Original post by Overmars

We have a sharp one here...

Btw, would you say you're representative of the average Yorkshireman?

I guess so

Reply 26

Tootles

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Original post by Zarogue

William Harold Coltman was a C.O. in WW1, he volunteered for service as a stretcher bearer and ended up winning the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal. The last two he won twice each.

Sounds like my plan in that case :smile:

Reply 27

YorkieLad101

Original post by daisydaffodil

I'm disabled so what happens to me? Do I get to fight or do I have to do some other kind of work? :ninjagirl:

Probably would depend on what type of disability you have, if you have a psychal disability then you probably would have to do non-combatant work (e.g. working the land or something) if not exempt from conscription altogether (depending on how badly conscripts are needed)

Reply 28

Aphotic Cosmos

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No modern nation needs to put 20 million men in a theatre any more, that's just not how war's waged these days. If conscription were announced it would probably be selective based on skills/experience and for largely civil roles.

I could live with that.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 29

wildrover

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Women wouldn't be forced to go, things are only sexcist if they are against women.

Reply 30

Aj12

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Original post by Tootles

I'd be happy with medic, or something technical perhaps. I just don't want to kill people.

During ww2 some were made into cooks and things like that whilst others did propaganda photographs, anything really that helps the war effort

Reply 31

Tootles

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Original post by Aj12

During ww2 some were made into cooks and things like that whilst others did propaganda photographs, anything really that helps the war effort

That sounds cool.

Reply 32

Clip

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Original post by Zarogue

William Harold Coltman was a C.O. in WW1, he volunteered for service as a stretcher bearer and ended up winning the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal. The last two he won twice each.

Only three people have ever been awarded a bar to their VC. (Getting it twice.) Two of them were in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Reply 33

Le_Bow

Original post by Tootles

Oh, dear. I'm a conscientious objector, what would happen to me?

Use you as a stretcher bearer like they did in the WW1

Reply 34

SwingOnTheSpiral88

they should be forced to go if the past X decades of fighting for equality were to ever be taken seriously again.

Reply 35

Erich Hartmann

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Probably best if women are excluded for logistical reasons.

But any future wars are unlikely to require as much of a manpower as previous wars, technology has solved a lot of it.

Reply 36

tvdx

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If the UK went to war for just reasons (ie. Second World War) I think I would volunteer to fight, though any war these days would be much more likely to be fought from afar.