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PRE-HEDGEHOG
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Preparation for our final exam-type-thingy, Hedgehog 2015 (and I am really sad they didn’t have the decency to at least call it Operation Hedgehog) are well underway.
It’s an annual military exercise that throws everybody that have gone through military service that year (plus a bunch of folk from military reserves, to refresh their skills) onto a plot of land and let them duke it out in a pretend war. This year’s the biggest one yet, with some 13000 men (including our NATO allies participating)
Consequently, it’s up to us, “free manpower”, to handle all the preparations for“war” and receiving all the “new recruits”. We were divided into work groups and I got into a fairly sweet one - radio assembly and montage. For whatever reason, most of our vehicles actually don’t have a radio in them and it was up to our group to remedy that. Sure beats being the ones that have to pack clothes for the new recruits.
I grouped these three weeks together because quite frankly, either it’s been a bundle of very samey weeks or I’ve just become indifferent to the progress of time here, but I’ve lost the desire to discuss my work here much. Probably bit of both.
I’m not the only one either. Amongst my fellow conscripts I’ve heard it be mentioned that, while during the early days everybody would be calling home nearly every day, sharing impressions and such, that has almost completely died down. Now it’s mostly a once-a-week thing and even then, folk are saying, there’s hardly much to talk about.

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PRE-HEDGEHOG
< PREV | NEXT >
Preparation for our final exam-type-thingy, Hedgehog 2015 (and I am really sad they didn’t have the decency to at least call it Operation Hedgehog) are well underway.
It’s an annual military exercise that throws everybody that have gone through military service that year (plus a bunch of folk from military reserves, to refresh their skills) onto a plot of land and let them duke it out in a pretend war. This year’s the biggest one yet, with some 13000 men (including our NATO allies participating)
Consequently, it’s up to us, “free manpower”, to handle all the preparations for“war” and receiving all the “new recruits”. We were divided into work groups and I got into a fairly sweet one - radio assembly and montage. For whatever reason, most of our vehicles actually don’t have a radio in them and it was up to our group to remedy that. Sure beats being the ones that have to pack clothes for the new recruits.
I grouped these three weeks together because quite frankly, either it’s been a bundle of very samey weeks or I’ve just become indifferent to the progress of time here, but I’ve lost the desire to discuss my work here much. Probably bit of both.
I’m not the only one either. Amongst my fellow conscripts I’ve heard it be mentioned that, while during the early days everybody would be calling home nearly every day, sharing impressions and such, that has almost completely died down. Now it’s mostly a once-a-week thing and even then, folk are saying, there’s hardly much to talk about.