Conscription speedrun: 1940s edition
by standovahim_
Conscription speedrun: 1940s edition
by standovahim_
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any% conscription speedrun” is wild because the 1940s really went: spawn → draft → front lines → no checkpoint saves 💀
History memes really turn “global mobilization” into a glitchless speedrun category.
Or in a lot of cases “adult”
FDR to the US population 1 year later: you’ll be a cog in the greatest industrial war machine that’s ever existed.
Putting the “Infant” into Infantry
True in Europe due to the existential
nature of the war but the US was more like
“I really want to be soldier”
“Sorry kid you’re too nearsighted/flat footed/fat/illiterate maybe fuck off instead. Oh and if you’re Black that goes double but you’re used to that”
About 40% of draftees & volunteers got rejected and suicide was a reasonably common problem in that group
*rome 200 bc*
oh look that thing has two legs and looks able to hold a shield! Come here boy, we’ll make a legionnaire out of you!
b-but my grandpa died at Trebia! And then my father and uncle perished at Lake Trasimene…
Exactly and you’ll find glory at Cannae.