I used to work with a veteran from the Balkan wars. His regiment was bunking together with the Finns, who stood for construction, supplies, pretty much everything. Ever tried a Nokia field ration?
Anyway, while his regiment was very prim and proper, my countrymen being the bureaucrats they are, the Finns were a lot more relaxed. They refused to build FOB's if they weren't allowed to construct a sauna as the first thing. Also tended to build stills to make moonshine.
The magnum opus, though, was when they held a massive, international field exercise. Everyone was lined up perfectly, when the Finnish general rolled up in his personal APC. It had a trailer on it; a custom built sauna on wheels, in the same plates and color scheme as the Finnish APC, that the General would haul with him everywhere during the exercise. My coworker, his comrades, his superiors, everyone was left flabbergasted at the sheer audacity of the Finnish general. The Finns, however, showed no sign of this being a deviation from standard procedure.
More content from Northern Wind 19 exercise when? >joint Swedish&Finnish battlegroup vs. Battlegroup of Norwegians, Brits and Yanks, in northern Sweden
This looks fun as fuck. I think Finland would be one of the few countries I'd rather have been born in aside from Burgerstan.
Nolan Harris
>was in the FDF >90 percent were government brainwashed cucks >all the kids tattled on eachother like a bunch of little girls trying to get people in trouble when they were jealous of them if they got rewards for their good work
the world is basically snitch culture now when in ww2 it was "lose lips sink ships"
this interview with this mob thug dude explains it best
>some kid makes the most innocuous joke with some very very very mild sexual innuendo totally platonic not even flirty at a female conscript and she tattled on him and he got sent home then came back in another company two weeks later
>paying taxes
Andrew Rivera
Homogeneous community makes the taxes bearable
Carson Garcia
The sauna is NECESSARY it's the secret to the strength of the Finns. I'm not Finnish but i live in Alaska and in the same latitude and environment as most of Finland. It's fucking cold most of the time do you know how good it feels to hop into a superhot room for 10 minutes when you've been uncomfortably cold all day? It's amazing it totally rejuvenates you.
First time I saw this pic an user related his buddy doing just this and nearly sparking off WWIII since apparently lighting up ships with a rangefinder can be construed as hostile.
Sebastian Sanchez
>10 minutes more like 45 minutes
Colton Jones
I hope I'm that content about life at some point
Christian Brooks
Im not practiced. I can do 10 before i get dizzy and lightheaded.
Asher King
>be Finnish >have to go do conscript service in the summer >gonna be 22 because they postponed my entry to the service Any other Finns here who did their service later than usual?
>Also tended to build stills to make moonshine Probably not moonshine, but a drink called Kilju, or sugar wine in english. It's a drink made out of water, yeast, sugar, and flavourings.
>tfw will never be a proper man because I got rejected due to mental health.
Landon Harris
If you watch that documentary about Finnish soldiers in Afghanistan they speak about how the second or third truck to enter a new FOB is the one that carries the supplies to build a sauna and how it is the first thing to get constructed. They then build a sauna.
At Mazar-e-Sharif? Heard the Swedes turned it into a toilet, bowl and all, thinking a sauna useless. Heard, too, that the bowl was tossed out the second the base was handed back. Seriously, having facilities for shit and piss in a hot-room... Fucking heretics.
Swedes would never do that. In northern Sweden sauna is as common as in Finland, and we have even built our own at multiple camps
James King
I can smell it all the way over here good lord fuck
David Perez
Our government passed a bill just a few days ago classifying semi automatic weapons fed from a standard detachable magazine as "very dangerous" weaponry, essentially cucking us further when it comes to guns
Xavier Morgan
Well looks like Finland is off the "where to move when shit's fucked" list Looks like Serbia is the only option
David Morgan
>Wants to escape balkanization >Moves to balkan
Flawless logics
Caleb Bennett
Fortunately --sort of-- the loo replaced the stove.
Jason Garcia
i have an aerial photo taken by my gramp. a triangular structure, covered in smoke: its the kremlin, burning, and around it moscow, burning.
