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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.
by letsgetphysITal 8y 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 8y agoYou absolutely can resign from the Armed Forces, otherwise how would there be veterans? The only difference is that you cannot resign mid-operation.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoVeterans 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 8y agoVery informative, but what does any of this have to do with Facebook?
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIt 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.