Conscription can certainly have some interesting psychological effects. I did my national service in the Spanish army in the 80s. After graduation you had to keep your service book and have it signed every so often for the next 25 years or so (a formality no one really bothered to adhere to, but it was there in law).
Conscription can certainly have some interesting psychological effects. I did my national service in the Spanish army in the 80s. After graduation you had to keep your service book and have it signed every so often for the next 25 years or so (a formality no one really bothered to adhere to, but it was there in law).
You carried on with your life without a second thought to it but the fact remained you could be called up at the drop of a hat. It certainly had some effect on me because, though Spain hasn’t suffered any serious threats to her security, there has been a couple of wars that involved conscripts that happened while I was in the reserve that made feel for my generational peers, the Falklands specially, and the Yugoslavian wars. Every time I thought, if I’d been born in the wrong country that could’ve been me.
Conscription can certainly have some interesting psychological effects. I did my national service in the Spanish army in the 80s. After graduation you had to keep your service book and have it signed every so often for the next 25 years or so (a formality no one really bothered to adhere to, but it was there in law).
You carried on with your life without a second thought to it but the fact remained you could be called up at the drop of a hat. It certainly had some effect on me because, though Spain hasn’t suffered any serious threats to her security, there has been a couple of wars that involved conscripts that happened while I was in the reserve that made feel for my generational peers, the Falklands specially, and the Yugoslavian wars. Every time I thought, if I’d been born in the wrong country that could’ve been me.