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TommyBoi2
join:2002-07-01
San Jose, CA
| reply to NormanS
Re: The Greatest Country on Earth
Actually:
The Swiss army has long been a militia trained and structured to rapidly respond against foreign aggression. Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20 in the Rekrutenschule (German for "recruit school"), the initial boot camp, after which Swiss men remain part of the "militia" in reserve capacity until age 30 (age 34 for officers). Each such individual is allowed to keep his army-issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm Sig 550 rifle for enlisted personnel or the SIG 510 rifle and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, medical and postal personnel) at home with a specified personal retention quantity of government-issued personal ammunition (50 rounds 5.56 mm / 48 rounds 9mm), which is sealed and inspected regularly to ensure that no unauthorized use takes place.[2]
Mandatory ownership of guns and yearly firearm training for all men...
They also have one of the highest average incomes in the world, and over that of Americans. Not to mention health care is free, and a healthy currency. | |
NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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4 edits | said by TommyBoi2  :Actually: The Swiss army... What part of Switzerland is in Japan, Ireland, England, or Germany?
Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20 in the Rekrutenschule (German for "recruit school")...
No kidding...
私は日本語が少し別れます...
Yo comprendo poquito Español...
Ich verstehe ein bischen Deutsch...
I guess that means I am not "American"!
quote:
Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
A: Trilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who only speaks one language?
A: American.
And, no, I am not the fool who refused to sell tickets to the 1984 Atlanta Olympic games because the New Mexican resident trying to buy them had to be ordering them "from within the United States".
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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