Monday, November 16, 2009

Pretty Young Women in Army and their Contribution


Pretty young women must marry army officers to motivate young men to serve the nation.
With due apologies to Mr. Chitranjan Sawant for using his masterpiece blog post detailing the ways to overcome officer shortage in the Indian Army deserves widest possible coverage.
The pièce de résistance is here.
Young women who don’t join the army have another important role to play. They may opt to marry army officers and encourage their female friends to follow suit. If pretty young women in large numbers come forward to marry army officers, the stock of army officers in social circles goes up. This in turn provides indirect motivation to other young men to join the corps of officers and serve the nation.
One should remember that marriage is the bedrock of happy family life. A happy family is the basic unit that makes a nation happy. A happy nation thinks well, acts well and does problem solving effectively. Thereafter, winning a battle becomes a matter of battle procedure and the overawed enemy either turns tail or lays down arms in surrender.
Thus a correct mental make -up that leads to happiness of the family is a battle winning factor. An army that comes to be known as a winner attracts more young men who are good officer material. Thus, it is a chain reaction of the good attracting the good, leading to the better and the best in life.
If army officers get all the babes, then more young men will want to be army officers. But it is wrong to presume that getting women to marry army officers— out of a sense of patriotic duty— will lengthen the list of applicants to military academies.
That’s because of the OMIPP, the Oldest Mistake In Public Policy, which mistakes correlation for causation. In this case, attractive young women of marriageable age might be attracted to young men from a certain industry for the same reason as other young men want to get into that industry. Maybe because that industry pays well, offers a relatively better quality of life, a higher social status or all of the above.
Strategies to Ameliorate hard living

A whispering campaign among young nubile girls in colleges has had adverse effect on army officers finding good brides. The whisper pertained to the hard living conditions in non-peace stations and hard peace stations. The newly-wed couples don’t mind living in one-room tenements in hard peace stations as it is quite cozy.

In some stations these are called ‘honeymoon quarters or mercy quarters’. However, some who stay in transit camps find the fixed menu, the bill of fare rather a bore and an appetite killer. Once a bride complained of repeat bill of fare and got a polite reply “Madam, this is a Transit Officers Mess. Here the officers change, not the menu.”




Jokes apart. One needs a good will power to survive on that kind of food for a long time.

With the passage of time, children born and grow up. The problem of education arises. Fortunately, the army schools have ameliorated the educational hardship also quite a bit but not wholly. The higher education is also now being looked after by the army in medical and technical fields.

This should be made known to rank and file so that all concerned know that the army life is now liveable and the anti-publicity is a legacy of the lingering past. It will indeed put comma to civilian establishments stealing the talented youth from the army. Guarding its youth pool and putting a stop to brain drain will enrich the corps of officers day by day.

The army should keep the media, both print and electronic, on its right side so that the good word is spread to every nook and corner of the country.

The good word is : the Indian army looks after its personnel and the future of the new generation is bright. Join the corps of officers of the Indian Army and believe in the dictum.

So whether you are recruiting for the army or for the public sanitation department, you are better off making the job profile more attractive. The babes will follow.
“Join the army. Serve the nation. Get married to a Pretty Young Lady.” That sounds like the catchiest advertising slogan ever devised by any armed force in the world.
And what about the poor young officers in the army’s sister services — Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force — who must be feeling miserable about rather low officer shortages in their services.



I could not resist the temptation to not blog this. Here is their shout for the nation: Babes, do your Patriotic Duty !!


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