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Doesn't apply. If you resign from your job, you stop being paid. If you try and resign from the Armed Forces, you're put in prison at best.



You absolutely can resign from the Armed Forces, otherwise how would there be veterans? The only difference is that you cannot resign mid-operation.


Veterans may have retired (different to resigning), or been demobilised (like being made redundant).

You can't resign from conscription, some countries have a system whereby conscripts could serve non-combat roles; but usually it's fight or death/imprisonment.

Apparently Germany had general conscription from 1935, but with lots of exceptions. By 1943 all men up to 60 were being conscripted. Follow orders or face a firing squad.


Very informative, but what does any of this have to do with Facebook?


It doesn't, it's background on a side-thread response to "just following orders". The reference to WWII Germany being because the usual origin is that this was used as a mitigation by those involved in the Wehrmacht.




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