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Finally I escaped military service

My country, unlike other countries that basically enjoy peace for granted, my country is st one of those areas things are not that smooth. Conscription is required for males, with service ranging from four months to a year.

If you have watched Robert lee Ermey's Full metal jacket, then you know that the army won't be a pleasant experience.

Not only is our army unrestrained, they don't enjoy high esteem also. Why?


In 2015 my country aquired 30 Apache Longbows from the states, but in just less than a month, a noob crashed one into a low rise flat. Another incident happened two months ago. A tank commander accidentally drove a Patton down a bridge.

Well , those are just incidents at the top of the barrel. If we dig deep into it, things only go from bad to worse.

Yet, they are vital to my country. Our major threat has been attempting to occupy us for more than half a century already, and without the army boys, we'd be in deep trouble, just look at them:

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However, as you may know, we barely have the power to drive them back. Our current strategy is to raise their cost for an invasion, after all, even the States retreated away from Vietnam because the costs were too high.

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Still, I find it lucky to evade or escape military service. Why? That is because I have a complication where my soles are flat. I forgot what the medical name of that is, but it surely did help me a lot.

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It is hard to express how I exactly feel, but I just gotta say, it is one of the best things I ever had :)
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My son has flat feet and I'm kind of glad - though apparently it isn't the barrier it once was