If WW3 kicked off, and you were forced to enlist, do you think you'd cope?

[BaubleTheLumpOfCoal]

I 100% wouldn't.

I've looked at the army website and the fitness levels they require alone are way above my baseline level (out of breath when running up stairs )

I'm very small and weigh 6 and a half stone, so would probably be a liability to my fellow troops.

How do you think you'd fare?

I would help in the medical field if i could

Iv got chronic autoimmune conditions, so wouldn't be able to do it

In the current situation, noone is likely to be conscripted. Reserves called up if there are attacks probably.
In reality we should think seriosuly about terroist attacks and what we would do in a hostage situation or attack.

Would you sit awaiting rape and murder whilst your dh was castrated and murdered like that which was hidden at the Bataclan?

Will you memorise some Koran verses to try to prove you are a muslim?

Will you continue drinking, wearing short skirts and living a western lifestyle in defiance of a bunch of islamofascist mysogynist cavemen?

I'd be a bit worried that they needed a 63 year old as that would probably mean we had gone through everyone younger and fitter already.
My fitness level isn't too bad but I 've never been able to climb a rope so would be useless on an assault course.

@fussychica an assault course is all about team work! You don't do it alone so lack of rope climbing skills is no excuse.

I once took a team of civilians over an assault course and my team had the oldest female. We didn't break any of our un-boiled eggs and we all made it over.

I'd join the Land Army if they'd have me for my vague nations about growing stuff. I'd love the jodhpurs. Nice jumper and working on a farm
With animals. Etc. As king as my back held out.
I would be shite up the front line.
Bletchley wouldn't notice my absence and I dont think cut out for espionage or resistance.

@Frothybothie what was hidden at Bataclan? And your source.
I doubt an invasion and do expect Whack A Mole terrorist attacks which, living in a big city, is scary as it is so so possible.
I think creating a hole to hide in when the drone bombs come over maybe most useful

I would refuse to enlist. I don't accept that I have obligations to my country just because I was born here, they can bugger off.

If that means a civilian alternative, or even prison, that would be preferable.

We have career services in this country - they know what they are letting themselves in for, they can do the fighting. If everyone refused to fight male politicians couldn't make their pointless wars anyway. I certainly wouldn't get dragged into some ridiculous spat between egotistical male politicians in the US and Iran respectively.

Will you continue drinking, wearing short skirts and living a western lifestyle in defiance of a bunch of islamofascist mysogynist cavemen

Good question. I suspect you'd have to, or be killed, so I suppose it would depend if life was worth living in such a regime or not.

that is, have to comply.

@LucaFritz
Are you calling the people who were exempted from active service during WWI & 2 (there is a superabundance of information online, why not check out this blog from the National Archives for an interesting wee snapshot of things?) snowflakes?

I definitely wouldn't. I actually wondered how I get along in my job as it's quite physical and have quite a few health issues.

I’m much too old to be called up but if the worst happened, I can run 10k, swim a couple of km and can shoot straight.

I’d more likely be put in an office job or something practical like food production.

I'm to blind thank god.

I know my breaking point though weirdly enough. A close family member was attacked by a dog and I was the only one around. Luckily managed to get it off and pinned down but in those few moments if I'd had a knife or something heavy I would have killed it. Knowing my personality once I reached that point it probably wouldn't matter what was on the other end.

(I'm generally very calm and level headed with a long fuse but my god once it goes it's like an atomic blast 😂🙄😂)

@Questionable mouse...I thought you said "I am blind to God" which strikes me as a useful attitude in a conflict zone. Thought they say there are no atheists in a fox hole.
I cant throw very far but I can hit the chuff on a fly quite accurately so maybe knife throwing? From up a tree?

Will you continue drinking, wearing short skirts and living a western lifestyle in defiance of a bunch of islamofascist mysogynist cavemen

This ^^. If it really came down to defending a country (ies) from that type of regime, I think/hope most people would do what they could. We often take democracy, freedom of speech, beliefs, etc. for granted, but they're so precious.

Think what a different situation we'd be in if our ancestors hadn't resisted the Nazis in WW2, many of us wouldn't exist because our families would've been exterminated and the rest of us would be totally indoctrinated, living under a dictatorship.

Well I am an atheist sooooo.... 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄😂😂😂

Thankfully I have a hearing loss that is just above the limits and a hole in an ear drum that also excludes me.

WW3 would involve nuclear weapons. You wouldn’t be called up. You’d be blown up

Ok. Would u survive the nuclear winter/dystopian aftermath?
I have shaky skills and need the security I so take for granted. That is probably more likely.
The Iranian govt dont want a war...they want to annihilate US or the West as they see it. I dont think they are interested in an invasion. Seeing Washington a smoking pile of rubble is more their idea if the statements I heard today are anything to go by.

@lolaflores no I wouldn’t although I quite like the idea of wearing a bandana

Strongmummy with dreads and a samurai sword? Leather pants and no more showers. Liberation!

@lolaflores my head would be shaved actually, although somehow I’d manage to dye the stubble bright green. Yes I would use a samurai sword, but also a Henry hoover. I would drive a beaten up cortina and would become the long lost saviour of a group of feral kids living in the new forest

U know what strongmummy that sounds like a screenplay. Can I ask why Henry Hoover? Has he got magical fighting skills? The hair sounds v practical. The Cortina would die after a week. Fact.

@lolaflores thanks, I have been working on it for a while. It’s called Beyond Westfield. Henry Hoover is to ensure the cortina is always nice and clean, although of course electricity supplies are limited in post apocalyptic Essex. Thanks re: cortina info. Perhaps a fiat panda would be better

In all seriousness, the Fiat would be a better option. It would look charming upcycled into a two wheeled chariot with blades attached to where the hub caps are when the petrols gone and the feral children drag you about on it. Like a goddess.
Marvellous future you have laid out.