Military experiences past/present/future

[Hitman 10]

Finland only has defensive forces and I really doubt that we will ever have an "invading" army.

A good example of this was in some march for peace in Helsinki where there were some military personel present. A journalist came up to a Major and asked:"Major, what is the military doing here in the march for peace?" The major responded:"In our military, every step and every march is for peace."

But, if from some reason Finland would invade something, I think we would use Utti's special jaegars AND sissi's to take down enemy transport/supply routes and so on.

But as said, that won't never happen.

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So, are the Sissi generally considered a Finnish defensive measure then, meaning they wouldn't be used in offensive operations?

Hard to say. As said FDF is strickly defensive by it's nature in public, so there is no single detail publicly available about subject "Finland on offense".

Short answer from me would be: no. They lack mobility (we don't have much airlift capacity and terrain is mostly woods so they would need to travel by foot). Most natural place and task for them would be to secure advancing unit's flank areas and find and exterminate enemy's unit trying to dconduct recon and sabotage supply.

That would be my guess.

PS. I highly enjoy reading your writings here and specially in Battlefront's forums :)

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EDIT: ARGH! I'm getting late from work...

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

Finland only has defensive forces and I really doubt that we will ever have an "invading" army.

A good example of this was in some march for peace in Helsinki where there were some military personel present. A journalist came up to a Major and asked:"Major, what is the military doing here in the march for peace?" The major responded:"In our military, every step and every march is for peace."

But, if from some reason Finland would invade something, I think we would use Utti's special jaegars AND sissi's to take down enemy transport/supply routes and so on.

But as said, that won't never happen.

Okay, I understand that. It's a different paradigm from our service, but there is certainly nothing wrong with that. Thanks for sharing, I like learning about the defensive forces of other nations.

Hard to say. As said FDF is strickly defensive by it's nature in public, so there is no single detail publicly available about subject "Finland on offense".

Short answer from me would be: no. They lack mobility (we don't have much airlift capacity and terrain is mostly woods so they would need to travel by foot). Most natural place and task for them would be to secure advancing unit's flank areas and find and exterminate enemy's unit trying to dconduct recon and sabotage supply.

That would be my guess.

PS. I highly enjoy reading your writings here and specially in Battlefront's forums

Yeah, I can imagine that mobility would be a huge factor restricting their deployment. If I interpreted the Wiki article correctly, would each Sissi-Company be assigned to its local area and conduct operations there? Seems to me that is the best way to capitalize on troop's knowledge of local terrain and environment.

What name do you post under at Battlefront?

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Yeah, I can imagine that mobility would be a huge factor restricting their deployment. If I interpreted the Wiki article correctly, would each Sissi-Company be assigned to its local area and conduct operations there? Seems to me that is the best way to capitalize on troop's knowledge of local terrain and environment.

What name do you post under at Battlefront?

That is probably the general principle, at least it sounds to be best way. But i really don't know.

I post, quite rarely now days, under name of Secondbrooks in Battlefront.

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

That is probably the general principle, at least it sounds to be best way. But i really don't know.

I post, quite rarely now days, under name of Secondbrooks in Battlefront.

Yeah, I figured that was you when you mentioned it. I go through cycles on that forum; sometimes I find a bunch of threads that interest me and my posting goes up, but most of the time I lurk.

[MehMan 0]

I happen to lurk by from time to time but the whole peng thing scares me.

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

I happen to lurk by from time to time but the whole peng thing scares me.

Yeah, I've seen you on there a few times.

[Motivator 10]

How many people here are Active or former military?

I did 4 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, 2 deployments to Iraq.

oooraahhhh! Stay Motivated!

[My Fing ID 0]

4 years Army, 1 deployment to Iraq and went through 4 units in 4 years. Day I was supposed to goto the promotion board was the day my stop loss ended lol. Needless to say I didn't make sergeant. 3rd time I was almost promoted. If I didn't move units so much I'd of gotten my stripes.

[AlphaIndia2 10]

Former military Swedish Army, did 2 deployments in Bosnia, and 2 deployments Kosovo

7:th Mech Inf Coy NordBat2 UNPROFOR 1995

4:th Mech Inf Coy Swebat IFOR 1996

Fire/Support Coy Swebat KFOR 2000

IndiaLima Rapid Reaction Mech Inf Coy KFOR 2001

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Moving to OT.

[TangoRomeo 10]

Former NCO german army. 1 year as conscript, 4 enlisted.

GECONSFOR ´99 (Rajlovac)

[Second 0]

Former active, active former. Closer examination in other military service thread.

[jump artist 0]

Staff Sergeant, USAF. 8yrs and counting.

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I served 8 years in the Flashpoint/ArmA community, that's worth 1 Fallujah right? ;)

[scubaman3D 0]

nah - I'd give you a Basra and half of a Haditha :p

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LOL ok then ;)

[craigsa 0]

Not military but South African Police special ops - worked with Task Force on many occasions and worked in uniform response

Edited June 16, 2009 by craigsa

[Mr_Tea 0]

As nearly all young man in Germany back in 91 i served. In my case 12 month within the Tank Artillery.

I really hate the M109, and the other old equipment we had, the stuff the guys get this days is much better. The only usable toys we had, where the G3 and the MG3.:rolleyes:

[Johannes 10]

Starting my basic training in the german army in 14 days. German airborne here i come! :q:

[Flock 10]

im not in the army, tho i have shot a rabbit

[Gollum1 0]

Semi-active Finnish Defence Forces reservist.

Conscript service 2006-2007: Pori Bde / Satakunta Jaeger Bn / 1. Jaeger Coy (FRDF)

Kosovo deployment 2008: FINCON KFOR / MNTF © A Coy

Rank: Cpl

Training: Mech Inf + Fire Support Section (Mortar)

Edited June 17, 2009 by Gollum1

[the_antipop 10]

Currently serving the Royal Australian Infantry.

[Hitman 10]

Semi-active Finnish Defence Forces reservist.

Conscript service 2006-2007: Pori Bde / Satakunta Jaeger Bn / 1. Jaeger Coy (FRDF)

Kosovo deployment 2008: FINCON KFOR / MNTF © A Coy

Rank: Cpl

Training: Mech Inf + Fire Support Section (Mortar)

Ah so you did get in. Nice job!