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Stupid decision. Even for high-rank officers. People older than 60 are completely useless in the army.
To form this opinion, I assume that you have worked closely with quite a few high-ranking military officers over the age of 60. Were they really that bad?
You assume correctly. In my country major is considered a… no idea how it is called in English. We called it “higher rank officers”. And yes, I worked to some extent with these people during the actual war when they had to do more than just breathe and wear a hat.
And Finland really needs an army, not a kindergarten of old farts. You can look at the map to see why.
I’m still not quite understanding what their age has to do with whatever the problem is. The routine makes them fat and lazy after enough years of their job being to “breathe and wear a hat”? Maybe that wouldn’t apply to reservists? Or maybe they don’t run things that way in Finland?
I’m still not quite understanding what their age has to do with whatever the problem is.
(shrug) Sorry, I can’t explain this. Some things are so obvious that they are very hard to formally explain.
In my experience, if you can’t explain a thing, it’s usually because you don’t understand it; that ability to explain is practically what it is to understand a thing (with notable exceptions for eg. language difficulties, or for simple hand-eye tasks), which this shrugging abdication(abnegation?) of explanation does not even pretend to try to attempt.
I don’t know about that.
You probably don’t want a near-retirement-age person hauling a rifle on the front lines, but something like 90% of a modern military doesn’t directly engage in combat. If you can drive a truck to keep the logistics chain moving or something…shrug
If you can drive a truck to keep the logistics chain moving or something…shrug
Most 60-year-olds cannot do that. Most of them are chronically ill. They need warmth and pills.
Hi again lembot, could you do us a collective favor and just increment the count again with your next alt to save the modmail time?
Or better yet, cite some sources in your comments rather than airing mechanical exhaust in the chatroom?
What sources do you need to understand that “60 is old”?
You go to war with the army that you have, not the army that you want.
It is more complicated than that. At some situations a few old/fat/stupid/etc soldiers could decrease the overall effectiveness of the unit. In too many cases, no soldier at all is better than a very bad soldier.
