Then again, like in most other jobs, your schedule wasn’t as packed with fighting compared to today. After all you had to walk to every deployment.
And basically you’d be chilling in some camp and just get a few bruises every other month from some oversized or undersized Gauls, but they’d never kill.
Source: read some source material from eye witnesses, those scrolls known as “the Asterix chronicles”.
And what happens if you end up getting horribly injured during that time? Say, 10 years in, you end up losing a leg. You definitely can’t fight anymore, so … do they also have medical/disability retirement? Or are you just shit out of luck?
25 years? That seems an awfully long time to be armying about.
Then again, like in most other jobs, your schedule wasn’t as packed with fighting compared to today. After all you had to walk to every deployment.
And basically you’d be chilling in some camp and just get a few bruises every other month from some oversized or undersized Gauls, but they’d never kill.
Source: read some source material from eye witnesses, those scrolls known as “the Asterix chronicles”.
As long as one doesn’t have to hear Gaulish bards sing, it sounds like a comfortable assignment.
I believe that’s as high as it ever got, but it was definitely a thing.
May I challenge you with russian empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_Russian_Empire
Then again, life was really short
Don’t make fun of life they got little legs
LOL, that’s rough. I should have clarified what I was thinking of the (Western) Roman Empire.
Unfortunately, as the Legion system declined, life terms became common in the Late Roman Empire as well.
Real shit scenario, causes more problems than it solves honestly.
And what happens if you end up getting horribly injured during that time? Say, 10 years in, you end up losing a leg. You definitely can’t fight anymore, so … do they also have medical/disability retirement? Or are you just shit out of luck?
My understanding of ancient medicine is that one would die