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To make the long story short, I have the kind of spine that aches if you stand still for a while or kneel or bow, and asthma. For some reason, while I know just one other person from among my highschool and university friends who remotely faced the draft (still got sent home without serving it in the end) and all the sportsmen get “not fit for service”, they insist I am. They used the standard procedure, so tomorrow I’ll only need to show my university diploma and it will stop applying to me. However, after university, you still need to serve a training of 3 months if they call you. A half is theory and P.E. and a half is practical. I can’t run more than some two hundred yards or I start spitting blood. I can go on then, sure, but about twice that and I just can’t continue. Never even tried with a backpack on or a heavy object like a rifle in my hands, I already can’t do an uninterrupted jog home from the market with two shopping bags when it starts raining…
I seriously fear they’re going to do permanent damage to my health if they force me to comply with their standards. I’m not sure how much more permanent damage I can handle in addition to what I already have.
I don’t want to dodge it, in fact, citing health already makes me feel bad. Pretty much everyone on dad’s side of the family was a soldier and my maternal grandfather was one too. The whole country and nation has a history of always fighting against outnumbering forces, as well as underaged and sometimes even female soldiers. Part of me wants to go no matter how this will end, but I don’t want to think what when I’m 60 if they damage my spine or lungs any further, if I already know at this point it won’t be a piece of cake with what I already have.
Another problem is that I’m in a doctoral course that my family paid for. It cost us dearly, it’s supposed to give me a good start in professional life (well, a bit after start, but still), but the army isn’t obliged to delay the draft. They can take me right in the middle of the year, which will likely mean failure to pass the year exam in the end unless they somehow let me study and attend exams. And drafted, I won’t be able to work and earn money to pay for the studies.
So, if you wouldn’t mind a prayer or two… not for my not getting there, but that God’s will be done, whatever it is. Certainly the most favourable outcome would be finishing it and not getting any permanent health damage or wrecking a year of study my family paid for.
I seriously fear they’re going to do permanent damage to my health if they force me to comply with their standards. I’m not sure how much more permanent damage I can handle in addition to what I already have.
I don’t want to dodge it, in fact, citing health already makes me feel bad. Pretty much everyone on dad’s side of the family was a soldier and my maternal grandfather was one too. The whole country and nation has a history of always fighting against outnumbering forces, as well as underaged and sometimes even female soldiers. Part of me wants to go no matter how this will end, but I don’t want to think what when I’m 60 if they damage my spine or lungs any further, if I already know at this point it won’t be a piece of cake with what I already have.
Another problem is that I’m in a doctoral course that my family paid for. It cost us dearly, it’s supposed to give me a good start in professional life (well, a bit after start, but still), but the army isn’t obliged to delay the draft. They can take me right in the middle of the year, which will likely mean failure to pass the year exam in the end unless they somehow let me study and attend exams. And drafted, I won’t be able to work and earn money to pay for the studies.
So, if you wouldn’t mind a prayer or two… not for my not getting there, but that God’s will be done, whatever it is. Certainly the most favourable outcome would be finishing it and not getting any permanent health damage or wrecking a year of study my family paid for.
