The Army Diary

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat May 10, 2008 9:19 am

What a fun bicycle-trip, or what, Student S?

I bet RawonaM's become to appreciate the Axemen philosophy: sweat saves blood.

RawonaM · Post by **RawonaM** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:03 am

Yeah, the bicycle-trip was quite something. My legs were a bit sore after that. Cadet K should become a personal trainer

"Faster, student S, faster!"
So far I have managed to survive without a single intrusion to my private parts. A hidden message in one of my exams is the only way Kashluk has approached me so far. Let's see how far I'll get untouched.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:50 am

46 days left. Promotion and the last day of conscript service are drawing closer...

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon May 19, 2008 5:22 pm

You can still quit.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:47 pm

There is still time. Activate the bomb. Virgins await. Jawhol.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:22 am

Date: June 6th 2008

Progress: 92 % (28/362 days left)

Rank: Officer Cadet

Situated at: 2nd Company, Infantry reserve officer training course, Reserve Officer School

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Alright, how to begin... Let's just say that this week I reached the peak of my conscript career.
I'm not exaggerating - I'm still in a bit of a shock myself of what's happened. Big things,
big things.

I was ordered to the school leader's office, to have a little chat. Colonel was waiting for
me and I couldn't stop thinking what I had done so awfully wrong that I was sent to "the
headmaster's room". I was surprised when the colonel shook my hand and greeted me
rather warmly. It felt really suspicious, I was sure there was something wrong. Then he gave
me an envelope. He told me that I could open it and read the letter inside in his office or step
outside, my call. The envelope was decorated with this symbol:

My knees began shaking and I couldn't get a word out of my mouth. I decided to open it
right on that spot where I was standing. Inside I found a fine, engraved letter with the following
content: "The Grandmaster of the Order of the Cross of Liberty invites you, Officer Cadet
Ville Henrik Pekkala, to receive your decoration on 4th of June Anno Domini 2008 at the
Presidential Palace." Colonel shook my hand again and congratulated me. 14 other people
were granted decorations at this time (in Finland military decorations are granted only on
4th of June and 6th of December) and they were all professional soldiers with long military
careers behind them. Three of them were generals. I was the only conscript. Actually,
I'm the first conscript since the last war.

4th of July I travelled to Helsinki and took part in the ceremony. Long story short, the President
of Finland and several generals who have seats in the Board of the Order granted me a Medal
of Liberty, 2nd Class. A god damn MoL, I've only seen those in movies and WW2 video games
before. After that I was placed right next to our republic's president, in a table of ten, where
I struggled to keep-up small talk with six generals, the former supreme commander of armed
forces and our beloved head of state. It didn't help to know that such decorations are not
normally granted to people under 40 years of age and even now that they've began decorating
conscripts again, it's still not a default solution to decorate someone, not even one per year.
And 25 000 conscripts still serve each year. I've got this weekend off, so I'll take photos of
my medal for you to see, but to get the idea how it looks like, here's something I picked
from the interweb:

Throw in your wild questions, I can describe the whole situation in a more detailed manner, if
you're interested. God damn it, still can't believe this is true.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:56 am

It sounds like a dream..

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:15 pm

That's a damn fine achievement. I still think you'll one day become the president of this rotten country.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:19 pm

What did you do? I haven't been reading. Also that symbol that adorns your letter has a fucking swastika. The Reichstag sent it.

Edit.

Congratu-fucking-lations. Forgot that part. Pretty gosh darn sweet.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:09 pm

holy hell.

congratulations man.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:42 pm

serious congrats man!

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:18 pm

Holy shit, Kashluk and vicariously DAC is moving up in the world. Did you remember to address the serious issue of FO3 to these heads of state?

Seriously congrats though. That's unbelievable. Have you been killing alot of people or something?

Also, seriously, don't forget to war on NMA and Bethesda when you become emperor.

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:14 pm

Salutations.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:03 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote: Also, seriously, don't forget to war on NMA and Bethesda when you become emperor.

qfe

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:42 am

What exactly did you do? (Apart from being on DaC)

Congratulations.

Well done.

And i say this with the utmost respect.

HOWEVER

Men will fight long and hard for metal baubles attached to pieces of lace.

Still congrats dude, tell us what exactly you did to earn this honour.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:53 pm

I caught this from the internet:

" During peace time (Order of the Cross of Liberty's) decorations can be granted to people who have merits in working for the defence forces, national defence and especially voluntary national defence work and also for sake of Finland's national security. "

I guess the fact that I was my own reserve officer course's second in score (out of 700 students) and my company's valedictorian while I also spent most of my spare time working for the common good as the General Secretary in the officer students' union. My supervisors at the union, at my units in reserve officer school and Kainuu brigade and also my peers wherever I've served have been very satisfied with the work I've done both as a student and as cadet now. I've received several minor awards for my academic success at the reserve officer school and for being a good infantry trainer previous to this mega-incredible decoration.

I'm not the fastest runner or the best shooter and I wasn't even the best of my course, but I guess it's the sum of smaller details and the general quality of my efforts that caused this? Anyways, General HÃ¤gglund and Mrs. President ensured me that I actually have deserved an honor of this level and that they had to think this through long and hard before they wrote my name on the list. Their words somewhat lifted the burden of worrying whether I was worth it off of my shoulders.

EDIT: By the way, what do you think of this photo? I'm planning to use it as my avatar later on. It's me with the second lieutenant insignia on (I'm promoted on 4th of July).

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:30 pm

Cool. that photo is quite good, careful i foresee it being photoshopped to contain a penis near your mouth now that it is online.

Well done dude, at least you did not have to kill anyone to get the medal. Now go and get your rifle and come visit me and we can go an shoot mugabe and his followers (I am pretty sure his followers are keeping him captive cause he would have bailed ages ago if he was not being held.)

Congratulations again dude. How long until 'Student S' is out from under your medal carrying bootheel?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:36 pm

27 days my friend, 27 days...

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:59 pm

So are you like... a national hero or something now?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:18 pm

How do you sleep at night.