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I guess they're "just following orders"...

• letsgetphysITal 9y ago
  Doesn't apply. If you resign from your job, you stop being paid. If you try and resign from the Armed Forces, you're put in prison at best.
  • majewsky 9y ago
    You absolutely can resign from the Armed Forces, otherwise how would there be veterans? The only difference is that you cannot resign mid-operation.
    • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
      Veterans may have retired (different to resigning), or been demobilised (like being made redundant). You can't resign from conscription, some countries have a system whereby conscripts could serve non-combat roles; but usually it's fight or death/imprisonment. Apparently Germany had general conscription from 1935, but with lots of exceptions. By 1943 all men up to 60 were being conscripted. Follow orders or face a firing squad.
      • SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago
        Very informative, but what does any of this have to do with Facebook?
        • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
          It doesn't, it's background on a side-thread response to "just following orders". The reference to WWII Germany being because the usual origin is that this was used as a mitigation by those involved in the Wehrmacht.