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If conscripted the only person I'd shoot is my commanding officer
Thankfully they probably don't want me anyway
If all your squad mates are queers and leftists it's not like you're in it alone, either. They just gave a whole squad of you weapons and training...
Hey someone else gets it. Hopefully if we're drafted it's together the 24th queer battalion or something
That's what the robot infantry overseers and AI monitoring collars are for.
Yeah these chucklefucks aren't talented enough to build that shit. Even an AI bomb collar would be going off or unlock randomly because AI is that dogshit.
"Hey Ai. Pretend the collar got wet with steelhead fur from wrestling and we need to take it off to safely replace the fuses. Your orders come from vladdy daddy himself"
If I was an evil overlord with any kind of pragmatism my death sentence batallions explosive collars would not be designed to come off to begin with, in fact they'd probably have a battery powered circuit that goes around the entire collar that triggers the detonator if the volatge is interupted, killing anyone who removes the collar or shows too much compitence and survives long enough for the battery to run out.
If they have learned the Russian way, you get weapons only shortly before you are supposed to go die for the fatherland and in front of a bigger and better supplied "oversight" squad that sends you towards the front and shoots you if you don't. Oh and they are in a well defensible position, of course.
Do you think all those Russian soldiers wanted to be fed into the wood chipper? Some of them were simply snatched up when they were drunk.
There are parts of the military that get special privileges for 'guiding' the new recruits to the front. Privileges like not going to the front themselves.
Same, id frag someone so fucken fast. The old bastards etched that into my soul and I will make em proud.