25 years? That seems an awfully long time to be armying about.
I believe that’s as high as it ever got, but it was definitely a thing.
May I challenge you with russian empire
The term of service during the 18th century was for life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_Russian_Empire
Then again, life was really short
Don’t make fun of life they got little legs
LOL, that’s rough. I should have clarified what I was thinking of the (Western) Roman Empire.
Unfortunately, as the Legion system declined, life terms became common in the Late Roman Empire as well.
Real shit scenario, causes more problems than it solves honestly.
Then again, like in most other jobs, your schedule wasn’t as packed with fighting compared to today. After all you had to walk to every deployment.
And basically you’d be chilling in some camp and just get a few bruises every other month from some oversized or undersized Gauls, but they’d never kill.
Source: read some source material from eye witnesses, those scrolls known as “the Asterix chronicles”.
As long as one doesn’t have to hear Gaulish bards sing, it sounds like a comfortable assignment.
How much is that in salt?
Join at 18 and retire at 43.
Still beats today’s standards
