Conscripts are not at all like 'proper' soldiers. Conscripts are just there to sit out their time. The soldier is sleeping, the service is going on. Of cour

Conscripts are not at all like 'proper' soldiers. Conscripts are just there to sit out their time. The soldier is sleeping, the service is going on. Of course. And yet, that's how most of the armies of the world are. That how the US army was, to a large extent, during the Vietnam war. (But also during WWII.) I spent two years of service performing mostly bullshit tasks (or doing nothing). When I was in training I received some kind of basic education of driving, uh, amphibious transporter medium - modified (ПТС-М, плавающий транспортёр средний - модифицированный). Was kind of fun. All right, it's completely off-topic now.