9 months! God! What can they learn in 9 months? Man... these countries are really taking defences in a very lax kind of way.
Ordinary PLA infantrymen
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9 months! God! What can they learn in 9 months? Man... these countries are really taking defences in a very lax kind of way.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
In NZ.the length of compulsory military training was narrowed down to 3months during the 50's/ In the late 50's and 60's it was ballotedby birth date. Everyone had to register at 18yrs. IT was the only lottery that Ive ever won
It's decided it's now going down to 6 month. Kinda useless. Lots of people are pushing for a professional only military. And really it's not that much about defending the country right now in the current environment. The most important part is probably the most of the professional soldiers are recruited out of the conscript pool.
lol they can replace it with a voluntary reserve system. there are bright sides with joining as a conscript or joining the reserve, aside from acquiring the skills and character, it helps you develop a social network that might come in handy later in the civie side.
ravenshield936
Banned Idiot
Some Good PLA Beijing MR Training Vedios
Londo Molari
Junior Member
The bulk of infantry is not very mobile. They can't be deployed in significant numbers oversees or by air. So if they do face a war, it will be on home soil or in a directly neighboring country. That changes the whole equation. They don't need to be well equipped. Also they will outnumber any opponent 10:1. They could win it with knives.
The reason that old equipments are still used today is that China, despite its growing military budget, still can't provide top notch equipments for every soldier of her large standing military (that is in fact true for all militaries in the world). Besides the gear used in training may not accurately reflect the current capabilities of PLA soldiers since the use of advanced gears may be considered wasteful for second or third line soldiers. I think that a old gears will always be used to train new recruits.