Would You Make a Good Soldier?

[Zarmi]

Hmm, it's a good question really.. With the way I approach things, react, think, teamwork ability and my shooting eye (got some experience with rifles and sniping). I'd say I might make an "okay" soldier, but certainly not more. Would never base that principle on how I do in multiplayer, though. Not the same at all.

 

[Joe Matsuda]

I like to think of myself as a team player...

even if I lose a lot because of my team...

but in real life I would not make a good soldier; I'm a pacifist

 

[Napierdalac]

I like all the people who think they are to rebelious to be in the army.. Trust me, the first time you try to rebel against your CO, you will be punished - not by the CO, but by your platoon.

You will be beaten, you will be left out, you will be locked out in the cold naked. Thats just the way it is in the army, one man slip ups the whole platoon gets punished.

I know this, i was a soldier before my back whent out, and i have participated in punishing that one guy who thought himself superior for the group. (We hang him upside down by his feet naked outside in the middle of the danish winter, after that he felt back in line)

 

[MrAkuma201]

I'm a great team leader any plan I make works out great if not perfect I mean if it works for black ops it can work in real life.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I'm a team player, but when not given orders I'm just a bit of a shock trooper. I'll just shoot whatever is on the opposing team without being particularly wily or cunning. I'd duck in and out of cover, toss grenades, etc. While I have a high amount of deaths I usually have a high amount of kills. Also, given the opportunity I will try take out large groups of enemies with explosives or anything that can kill more than one person at once.

 

[No_Remainders]

I'd sit there with a sniper rifle with a flask of tea and just wait.

 

[Leviathan_]

Unless I go through basic training to build up physical and emotional strength and endurance, I'd be a horrible, horrible soldier.

 

[Farotsu]

Takes a lot of training before someone could be considered a good soldier but from personal experience I can say that most important aspect for any soldier is situational awareness. When I was training my grunts, it was easy to see who had the mind on the task and who was just blindly running along. I wasn't much of a teamplayer myself as if I was given a task, I usually tended to tunnelvision. Which is why in the end I was given a position in the unit where I could go along with my own wits: a sniper squad leader.

Exactly the right job for me as my most important task was to observe the battle and decide where we would thin the enemy line for a punch-through so at all times I had to have a full awareness of the battlefield.

And yes regular grunts need to follow the orders almost blindly because there's no way they can see the big picture. That's what us spooks are for.

 

[Davey Woo]

I'd probably be a less-than-average soldier, as in I wouldn't have a problem shooting a guy or anything, but I'm not particularly strong, and I haven't had any experience firing a gun.

I'd only join the army if they called in a WW1 style "every able bodied man should join the army" recruitment thing in.

 

[Hman121]

I would be a very dead soldier if I were to fight the way I play online. Even though I listen to the team leader, I like to run around and knife people with no regard towards my safety. In real life, though, I believe I would be a pretty good soldier, especially when it comes to defending a territory.

 

[Sarukin]

Hell no, I'd love to serve my country but I think i'd end up dying by either poor phsyical ability or diving on a grenade saving my chums

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

My near-sightedness is quite bad, I failed the sight-test completely, so the guy at the recruitment office said "You're a danger to yourself and your co-soldiers". I don't care much whether I had to join the military or not, but I can't remember the last time both of my contact lenses fell out and the first thing that occured to me was "shoot myself and all my co-soldiers in panic".

Erm, I don't know in which country you tried to join up in, but in most parts of the western world you get issued with some pretty rugged glasses if you're near sighted. And speaking from a practical standpoint I'd say that trying to use contact lenses in the field would be highly impractical.

You'll most likely get banned from ever becoming a fighter pilot perhaps (since most jet fighters require you to wear a helmet with integrated instruments which is pretty tight so you can't wear glasses under it), but when it comes to foot-slogging infantry work, correctable issues to your sight and hearing would rarely be an issue. (a lot of armies employ people wearing glasses and hearing-aids and they do just fine)

Still, it largely depend on which country you're trying your luck in. Some countries are known to employ rather ridiculous demands on the physical state of the applicant, but this has more to do with some obscure bureaucratic bullshit to do or in other cases that some high-ups in the command structure somehow thinks that a decent soldiers has to be at the peak of physical perfection to be able to do anything at all (which is of course more of a chauvinistic chase after perfection than actual practicality).

You know, kind of how the germans did during WW" with their battletanks. Each had to be a masterpiece of engineering and quality, and sure, many models were some of the most fearsome battletanks ever seen at the time. But it doesn't matter if you have a few superior battletanks when your enemy can churn out several "inferior" battletanks by the hundreds. Your "superior specimens of übermensch goodness" will eventually get swamped and overrun at the end of the day.

The same thing goes for people as well as battletanks. Though some bureaucrats, politicians and parts of the high command hasn't paid much attention to history and practicality, so that's why certtain countries have strange and exaggerated demands on their recruits...

 

[WanderingFool]

No real team play sense in COD, but in BFBC2, I almost always play medic, its like that class is licensed to print exp.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I won't take orders, would openly doubt the whole mission and try to talk everyone else into that itll be more clever not to get killed and get home. Yes i am the perfect soldier. They need more of my kind.

But in gaming i really am a supportive type. Engineer or Medic mostly. And i even sometimes manage to turn my "faction" into a team.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

With some training I recon I'd be ok. Good common sense, a cool head. I'm not rushing anywhere in a hurry. I might make a good sniper.

 

[SpireOfFire]

my style of multiplayer? no, i usually go alone because 99% of the people i encounter online are morons and have no idea how to work as a team.

 

[sirpwnsalot65]

Well, my personality (merciless sociopath) would be usefull in a combat situation, but on the other hand, I'd probably get bored of shooting those who could fight back, so I'd most likely end up dangling Schoolchildren off of high places, untill they gave me their parent's life savings, and their lunchmoney, of course. (kidding)

Nah, I'd get picked off probably around the time they roll in the snipers. (Cunning bastards)

 

[NLS]

My near-sightedness is quite bad, I failed the sight-test completely, so the guy at the recruitment office said "You're a danger to yourself and your co-soldiers". I don't care much whether I had to join the military or not, but I can't remember the last time both of my contact lenses fell out and the first thing that occured to me was "shoot myself and all my co-soldiers in panic".

Erm, I don't know in which country you tried to join up in, but in most parts of the western world you get issued with some pretty rugged glasses if you're near sighted. And speaking from a practical standpoint I'd say that trying to use contact lenses in the field would be highly impractical.

You'll most likely get banned from ever becoming a fighter pilot perhaps (since most jet fighters require you to wear a helmet with integrated instruments which is pretty tight so you can't wear glasses under it), but when it comes to foot-slogging infantry work, correctable issues to your sight and hearing would rarely be an issue. (a lot of armies employ people wearing glasses and hearing-aids and they do just fine)

Still, it largely depend on which country you're trying your luck in. Some countries are known to employ rather ridiculous demands on the physical state of the applicant, but this has more to do with some obscure bureaucratic bullshit to do or in other cases that some high-ups in the command structure somehow thinks that a decent soldiers has to be at the peak of physical perfection to be able to do anything at all (which is of course more of a chauvinistic chase after perfection than actual practicality).

You know, kind of how the germans did during WW" with their battletanks. Each had to be a masterpiece of engineering and quality, and sure, many models were some of the most fearsome battletanks ever seen at the time. But it doesn't matter if you have a few superior battletanks when your enemy can churn out several "inferior" battletanks by the hundreds. Your "superior specimens of übermensch goodness" will eventually get swamped and overrun at the end of the day.

The same thing goes for people as well as battletanks. Though some bureaucrats, politicians and parts of the high command hasn't paid much attention to history and practicality, so that's why certtain countries have strange and exaggerated demands on their recruits...

Norwegian army is conscript based, but you're only obliged to show up at the recruitment office and have them check you out. You can still opt out if you have a good reason (health) or want to do charity for a year instead, or you can go to jail if that suits you better.
I started off with the sight and hearing tests, so I was rejected even before taking any of the other tests. (however, I had excellent hearing(and also found out I have bad colour vision)) But this is also part because the Norwegian army is scaling down on the number of forces and going for a "quality over quantity", therefore they are very picky. I know some older friends that have as bad or even worse vision as I have, and they had no problems getting into the military, that was however 10 years before me, much has changed since then.