>1/3 of ships are grounded because no crew
>had to scrap most of its planes because they're so old
What went wrong with the NZDF? We are literally the laughingstock of 5 eyes and I'm glad they denied me years back if it's this shit
>1/3 of ships are grounded because no crew
>had to scrap most of its planes because they're so old
What went wrong with the NZDF? We are literally the laughingstock of 5 eyes and I'm glad they denied me years back if it's this shit
We are very poor
frick off, same gdp as greece.
GDP isn't the same as purchasing power
And Greece is a fairly poor country that blows a huge amount on military, because they have an enemy at their gates.
>What went wrong with the NZDF? We are literally the laughingstock of 5 eyes and I'm glad they denied me years back if it's this shit
>Defence force run into the ground
>cant get crew or man shit
>somehow OP is too shit to even be considered
kek man, how far out on the spectrum did they place you? were you missing a leg or something
I had an autism diagnosis from when i was 6 and they said it would make it hard to work with the army even though i'm literally university qualified
to add to this i mogged the fitness requirements (3 pushups on knees for women, 7 for men)
>3 pushups on knees for women, 7 for men
That's... low
Even in the Belgium army, we ask a bare minimum of 15 pushups that's really the bottom level.
That's for both men and women, only difference is that women are allowed to do it on their knees.
25 pushups is perfect score.
NZDF will take literal anyone
Except OP, that is
What an actual joke, you cannot be serious.
This is British Army's requirements:
Press-ups — max number in 2 minutes, males to achieve at least 44, females 21. 2.4km timed run — need to run less than 10 minutes 30 seconds (males) or 12 min 45 sec (females).
It's 1 pushup (good form) for the reserves for females. I'm not shitting you
Those are aussie standards too, except for combat roles the chicks have to do the same as all the men alongside being able to carry 20kg over 5km
You know you can not tell them you have autism right? If you were diagnosed as a child you it's impossible for them to know unless you tell them.
NZ requires a full medical report by a doctor to apply. This is why our military can't recruit anyone
That sucks, I'm in the RAAF and half the people I work with either have autism or ADD. How else do you get to be pilots or Intel.
>What went wrong with the NZDF?
leftygaygism and international-scale dole bludging
what could have been?
>NZ GDP: us$ 250 billion
>Aus GDP: 1.5 trillion
look at the ADF, you'd only afford about a sixth of that
now, per NATO guidelines, 2% ought to be spent on defence
that's $5 billion annually
80% of that goes to operating expenditure, while 20% is for buying kit
that's $1 billion annually
most major military equipment have 30-year lifespans
so that's $30 billion dollars
now you tell me: what can the NZDF buy and operate, for the next 30 years, with that budget?
Jacintha turned New Zealand into a utopia according to the media. You live almost as the gods of Olympus might and you are moaning about something to do with ships?
>Jacintha turned New Zealand into a utopia according to the media
I love how the media in the west praised her handling of the pandemic like it was even possible to frick it up in a country like New Zealand
Its all hard to justify. Even if we spent a significant portion of gdp, we couldn't buy any real gamechangers nor could we man them, which is all secondary to there being no military existential threats to begin with. In principle sure, we shouldn't be a parasite on our allies, but in practice its hard to spend money for something that you know will be insignificant no matter how much you spend.
>laughingstock of 5 eyes
you should see canada's navy, shipbuilding contracts go to one of the most corrupt fricking oligarchs in the entire country, we look like the coast guard compared to you
The ring was destroyd, you useless Black person. Sauron has fricked of from this mortal coil and you can still call on the fricking eagles if shit ever hits the fan again
NZ is a traitor to the Anglo hegemony.
They're the Schloz of fiveyes
WHO THE FRICK CARES? New Zealand is in some isolated corner of the world and no country beside the United States can invade it without taking over Australia first, which itself is protected by the United States.
New Zealand should pay its defence budget to the US
you lack strategic thinking