Really hits home when some takes there own life, from this thread i presume he was Greek and in the Greece national army?
Wonder if bullying was a part of it, like Deepcut army base in the UK.
RIP 23 is no age, he had his whole life ahead of him.
the bullying is almost mandatory
apart from the officers, the soldiers do it themselves
they were bullied by the "older" soldiers before, and they are doing it to the new ones.
its an unwritten law in the greek army..
it breaks down to this:
you go to a center, artillery, communications,infantry etc. after 1,5-2 months i think of basic traning (bull
**** training, 2 times shooting with a rifle, and learning how to parade) (in those 2 months, you go back home for a total of 10 days iirc) then you get transfered to a unit according to your specialty, the specialty that was assigned to you either randomly, either by a degree you might have or either by the connections you have/people you know.
There, the training you will get is next to nothing, and you get 2 days per month to go to see your family. what soldiers do is stack up months, as you are not allowed to go every month, and then request for a leave of absence.
Speaking from personal experience, i went to the artillery unit, and got a communications specialty. i first went to a unit around 500 miles from home, then i got sent for communications training to a center 60 miles to the north. there i learned the nato phonetic alphabet and some useless things about how to talk on the radio..
apart from the phonetic alphabet, which anyone can learn, i got nothing from the army, while i invested 5 months of my life to it (back then it was 18 months mandatory, now its 12) and i told them i need to be excused for psychological reasons. after going out i went back to school ( i was a dropout) and then i came to the uk to study.
i owe them 4 months in paper i think. they will not see a single day of me.
the greek army its a complete waste of time and money from the government.
we learned how to evacuate in an act of war, and the vehicle that was supposed to curry the communications team, wasnt functional at all.
every week we had to "maintain" the equipment which basically was dusting the vehicle, and then do nothing. of course the ones that have been inside for more time didnt do a thing. Every 1-2 days you were allowed to go out for a few hours, were basically you spend the money of your family.
in the case of pyro, his unit was going out every 10-14 days.
sorry for my long post.
