>>17152619>>17153624>>17154196>>17154482Why do you have to bump this shit.
I can't not check it the first thing I do waking up. Aaa.
>>17151451I haven't really gotten far enough. I may when I do. But hopefully won't be here by then.
I guess it's funny how they had a system in place where they gave an unique ribbon for their cap tally every time a person got moved up while training and finally for when they got posted somewhere, then again for each transfer. Which they had to almost immediately get rid of and turn into a single generic ribbon when war broke out because it was just costing too much. The thought of collecting as many of those as they can was a bit of a drive for recruits, because pride meant a lot and yada yada.
They also had to sew their own ranks into their clothing as a discipline practice, but that also became a bit of a problem later when they were inside tunnels, the heat was too much to keep wearing their uniforms and the darkness made it bothersome to identify each other. So they had to do the same for their caps and only put on uniforms when an officer came by to check. I wonder if there's anything in the world as annoying as dress code.
Oh and also, the whole country had a complete of network of undercover snitches (patriotic citizens) who made sure nobody was talking smack about the war effort by listening in on conversations in even literally the smallest of villages around. They took their censorship really serious, and it only got worse as time went on with the higher-ups getting pissy about how bad the war was going.
There was a thing where some kind of magazine publisher made fun of Japan training girls to throw bamboo spears, which they got pretty mad at but couldn't draft the guy who wrote it because he was over 40 years old.
So what they did was draft hundreds of old incapable men for no reason, just so they can look like they didn't target him specifically.
>>17154794I did?
>>17154820I was?
