Wow, so many posts, mostly irrelevant w.r.t. the intention of this thread. Ya, I know this post of mine too.
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Originally Posted by rohan_iitr This would be my last post on this thread. |
Cool down man, your posts had some valid points and same with other posts too.
The fact is, Armed Forces are respected more in our society and probably rightly so in some sense. There is no harm in this.
Consider the school teachers/professor. They also do their job, what kind of salaries they used to get (10yrs back) ? Hardly any facilities but still they are respected in our society, why ? His students even after 10-15 yrs probably earning many times more money, will touch his feet (out of respect), but the same student will never do this to his corporate manager or his boss right ! Doesn't mean the boss is wrong etc but the fact is teachers get more respect.
We are quite matured enough to understand the importance of Armed Forces and other Professions to our society, nobody is doing a small or bigger job, and no one is doing charity, getting into an IIT is not for everyone, same way flying a fighter jet and sitting inside a tank is also not for everyone.
All profession have their +ves & -ves, corruption is present in every profession, everybody don't get the chance to play golf, or save enough money to buy an appt. in a prime location in one of the top Indian cities after retirement, club membership is not important to all, similarly few people out there choose their profession based on passion/dream where the materialistic facilities - however important they are in reality becomes secondary for them, some of them goes into armed forces and happy to be spending weeks 24/7 in -50C to safeguard our country border, some become dr. and treat poor patients free of cost, it’s an individual choice we need to respect that.
Last year when I went to my hometown, a very close relative of mine showed me the photos of the handover function of the anti-submarine warship they (GRSE@Calcutta) built and delivered to the Indian Navy in 2011.
He was explaining so many things about this ship, the technicalities, electricals, how it may be used and so on, he will retire in next few months. There was no need for him to say these things, he is brilliant, holds a prestigious senior technical position in one of the very few similar organizations of India (war ship builders), but still he was saying this because the ship they built will be used by the Indian Navy. I am sure he wouldn't have told me so many things if GRSE built a ship for tourist dept. to take passengers in the calcutta-chennai-andaman route, that doesn't mean that building a passenger ship is easy. All these probably because there is respect within him for the Indian Navy which the navy earned it over the years.
There may be few comments posted but that I guess was posted in the heat of the moment and no one’s intention here is to disrespect the civilians.
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Originally Posted by nanduchitnis My aim was very simple. Do consider Armed Forces as a career option. I had no intention of deriding other professionals who contribute to the Nation Building effort. We are an EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT we dont earn profits for the Nations. The massive defence budget HAS NEVER been debated in Parliament and passed without a whimper. This is the tax payers money and is almost 60 % of the budget. Yes it costs a lot to maintain, clothe, equip, feed us ! We are one of you and NOT some elite entities masqerading around with a holier than thou attidtude.
I am partly to blame deriding Bill Gates which was in a different context.
Will come back when sanity rules. But for now I do feel demoralised ! What the hell tomorrow is another day. |
Ooops, I sensed this coming yesterday, I mean why so sentimental. OK I got your point.
But within these 100+ post I see only 3-4 relevant post in this thread w.r.t. the initiative and 2 of them in the last hour or so. I believe @Neel385 did share some useful information.
Come on Commander Nandu, where is the armed forces spirit? Few posts and you are demoralised
Please continue updating this thread with useful information, I am sure there are many interested youngster who need guidance
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Originally Posted by Samurai Sheesh, you guys too serious.
I was trying to add some levity. I saw Rohan questioning military guys why they think their job is superior. I felt it needed a punchy military reply, in Jack Nicholson style. Obviously, it doesn't answer the exact question asked. |
ha ha ha your post made it serious, come on... why such serious dose for a simple answer. BTW, it's good that you didn't paste any video clips of our very own Sunny Deol though, lol !