This one???
Posted on 03/06/2006 5:16:29 PM PST by proud_yank
Venezuela, frequently coming to the agenda with its anti-US policies, aims to have the largest “voluntary reserve army” in the American continent by training two million civilians in the upcoming year.
In this frame, About 500,000 voluntary civilians began the four-month military training program on Saturday. Venezuela will have the largest reserve army, double the size of US armed services reserves, in the American continent by the summer of 2007. Being a part of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s “public army” plan, this army will directly intervene in possible civilian unrests and conflicts.
In a statement to the British daily Guardian, General Alberto Muller Rojas who implemented the new military strategy, told: “If the US army occupies our country one day as many people think, the only way out for us is to make a guerilla war”. Indicating that they have 80,000 professional soldiers, General Rojas said they need civilians like the ones in Iraq who fight against the US army.
Senior military officials emphasize that a very deterrent power will be formed against the possible attacks towards Venezuela with the training of one out of five adults with this program. The daily stressed the fact that public companies in Venezuela, the world’s fifth biggest oil exporter, established their own security units increased the demands for joining the “public army”. The Venezuelan Parliament is working on a law draft, which will render it “compulsory” for adults to join the “public army”.
Those over the age of 18 have to serve a 2,5-year military service in the country, which has a population of 25 million. The number of potential soldiers between the ages of 18 and 49 is more than six million in the country where more than 250 thousand youths are registered as soldiers every year. The annual military expense of the country is around $2 billion.
You got it. Armies are much easier and cheaper than jobs and housing.
Yeah, they ARE 'volunteers':
The 'volunteer' because they want to eat.
They 'volunteer' because otherwise, their familes will be starved or executed.
Oh, I imagine that a few of them volunteer because they are good little commie despot followers... But most of them just want to stay alive just a little longer.
Celebrate Venezuela's new "army" by sending them 1 Million bodybags for future use.
It's time to activate the Girl Scouts. We're going to have to deal with this nut job and his 2M man/child army before long.
ROFLMAO!!
"If you guys find any good Hugo threads, please ping me. I'll do the same if you would like too, its something I kind of enjoy following."
Cool, we'll have a "Hugo Chavez is at it again" ping list :)
I wonder if he even has enough guns to equip 2 million soldiers. Those 100,000 AKs from Russia will barely cover the regular armed forces, and even if he transfers the army's old FALs to the reserves, that's only about 80,000 reserves he can arm.
'Poison Peanuts' for his donkey cavalry?
Looks AWESOME!!! :) :D
In the "American continent"? What's that?
If I can't trust this guy's geography, I'm not about to trust his math.
I believe this is more for Chavez's domestic reasons and to shore up his budding dictatorship.
This one???
Why do you have to bring James Carville into this?
Of course it is. I wonder how long his term as president will last?
LOL, I wonder how long it will take to create a good ping list with that as an eye catcher??
He's building small arms plants. He's getting help from the Russians and the Chinese.
not too long, i think :)
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