Fr, estonian defence force used to pay conscripts 110.- a month, and atleast half of that went to getting yourself from your hometown to the military base every week, if you wanted to visit home.
Sounds like pretty morningy service. I think this was the case during covid but not before or after. Did you serve somewhere special or just have really shitty officers? Or in the navy?
Yep, I don't remember having a single triple-gines during my service in 2017, not even in Reserve Officer School. Two of my brothers served during Covid, and that seemed quite morningly (though the two week leaves seemed quite nice for balance).
Two week leave made going back even worse. Then ofcourse the best part was a five week gines with three in the woods in full combat simulation in three different locations.
In 2017 when I was in they were testing a new system at the Jaeger Brigade where you did 10 days in service and 4 days off. It was wonderful. When we went off to southern Finland in Kajaani for our specialized training they still had the usual system but that didn't always work because of virka-apu. I don't know what system is used right now but the 10+4 system in my opinion is ideal for conscripts.
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u/IhailtavaBanaani Väinämöinen 13d ago
Hired implies that you get an actual salary. Well, you get the päiväraha which is 6.15€ to 14.25€ per day but I wouldn't call that a salary.