[Irish Army] Update
Day 2,364, 11:20
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Published in Ireland 
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by Ian E CoIeman
May 11, 2014
Hello eIreland,
Today we have an update for our soldiers outlining our agenda for the near future. With a tentative end to pressing real life academic obligations of many of our staff, we can chip away at a few long-term projects and grease a few of our gears.
Spring Cleaning
If you've recently been removed from the Irish Army military unit, don't worry you haven't been kicked out. Because we'd built up a bit of a zombie platoon of dead/inactive citizens over the past many months, we've gone through and given anyone who hasn't fought in more than a month a poke (removed them from the unit).
If you're still alive, just join back up and reclaim your bunk back in the barracks. My apologies for any inconvenience, as I understand that many are training their strength rather than fighting, in order to avoid going up a division while their strength is too low to be competitive.
As a side note, for those of a low strength to division status, and in times of relative peace, such training methods are encouraged.
Regiment Organization
As part of our plan to further update your national army, in a very speedy fashion we're going to be teaming up regiments and getting captains to play a much bigger role in army culture.
Each regiment will have it's own name and logo. Captains will be elected and be responsible for making their regiments competitive and efficient. As a member of a regiment your army uniform will not only have the army insignia on it, but also unique markers to indicate your regiment.
If you would like to lead your own regiment, talk to me about ideas for a name and logo; and start recruiting soldiers who you'd like to work with.
This is the time to make your mark on the Army and build a strong regiment that will stand the test of time. I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas.
Command Editorial
Before I leave you, I would like to address some ideas on what the ideal is for our national Army.
Certainly from it's foundation, the primary mission statement of our national military unit has been that of a united and comprehensive front. This in contrast to a history of counter productive division between separately operating military organizations in the time before December 7, 2010.
This mission statement leads naturally to several other tenants of the Irish Army in light of the nature of Irish politics and the modern game mechanics. The most obvious tenant is a commitment to remaining non-political, and separate from political appointment and influence.
But another, which has only been polished under the command of myself and our previous Commander, Seanan, is the concept of a truly open civilian military unit. This is to say that membership in the unit is not an exclusive club, but a public right, and perhaps even a civic duty. As such, the institutions and operations of our national military unit, are tailored to fit citizens of all levels of commitment with fair and equal regard, rather than taxing our commitment to any of our members, for the benefit of any select few.
The goal is to make all eIrish citizens feel welcome in their army. More over, we want every citizen, regardless of the balance of their priorities, to feel that they are in their element here in Irish Army.
Now for those who seek to belong to more professional, elite, or exclusive, clubs, I believe that the future will be just as promising when we roll out the new regiment system previously mentioned in this article. And in this I think that we can accomplish the best of both worlds, and, I hope, carry on with a the proud tradition and great national accomplishment that is: Irish Army.
Cheers,
Ian E Coleman
Commander of eIreland's National Military Unit, Irish Army.
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Always in the fight o7
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Good work
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Well done, spring cleaning is always needed.
And... so I see, that is why I have an invitation to change regiments..? oh!
v with a new uniform 😃
PS: Yeah Jaco!
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Good job 🙂
Good stuff o7
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Past week or two I've seen a growth in the IA. Super work Ian. Many of the new recruits I have spoken to have spoken highly of you. Just shows the high amount of attention you are giving to each new player.
Great work.
Is there a place now for those who disagree with the government's position on political items? I left because I dared stand for principle against the rental deal with the eUSA and it was said, by multiple people, that my behavior was treasonous and made me unworthy of being a member. If this has not changed, then the IA is NOT the people's army that it should be.
The IA follows the priorities set by the Department of Defence, which of course means that the DOs and COs would as well.
If an individual wants to leave the IA on the basis that the orders of the unit are in conflict with their own beliefs, than more power to them. However, we still have to function as an effective military unit, and that means soldiers following orders.
It's important not to confuse the fact that you left by your own volition.
Yes, it was voluntary. I was tired of the insults. It was not an environment welcoming to all. So I voluntarily told those folks to bugger off and went elsewhere.
That's what I probably would have done too.
Too be honest I don't remember the fine details of that time, but I suppose the most frank/useful answer to your question is that there are not any plans to make special accommodations for anyone who wants to fight against government orders.
I think we probably share a caution against mindlessly following orders - but in that particular regard I don't see a practical solution where the IA is concerned as far as the mechanics of MUs are concerned. And no good commander would feel comfortable hijacking the MU based on his/her own individual beliefs. So even in a situation where I strongly disagreed with government orders, I would have to either resign or abstain from fighting. But I would never personally fight against my own government in any capacity as Commander of our national MU.
This was during my Command, Ian.
Paddy. Multiple, i.e. three people, in the Dail said your actions were "unpatriotic", one specifically challenged your membership as part of the Army and two were also Army members.
Soldiers have risen concerns with orders before. My response was standard, mail the solider to understand their stance (which is exactly what I did and what I told you I was doing). After understanding the solider's stance, bring these concerns to government. Find solution. If solution is not found, ask the solider to abstain from those conflicts. If solider is unable to abstain, discontinue any government funded supplies. Irish conflicts are treated like political issues, hence solutions are encouraged through political channels and not through Army channels (exactly what I said).
You left the Army shortly after raising your concerns in the Dail.. and while never to me, I still followed through on that ^ track regardless of your actual membership, looking for the solution/understanding.
If you hadn't left, the worst would been discontinued supply until solution found. Army Command would simply be encouraging a political process.
Pulling this all together - on a personal level, no issue saying as a grunt, you falling on your own sword as the martyr you are, whispering with your last breaths how the Army isn't accommodating your views... as I sit there as the blood soaks into my new Junta boots.. asking you to explain in *very fine* detail your view, so I can take it to government... while continually expressing the importance of the political process... not once threatening any military disciplinary... then seeing you saying that there is no place in the Army for those who disagree with the government... despite all of that ^ effort... leads me to conclude that you can go do one, Paddy 😛
Like Ian says in this article: the IA is non-political.
They will not tell you what you should think, or how you should vote.
But a State military must be cohesive.
IA members are free to vote with their voices, and vote with their votes.
But they're not free to vote with their hits.
Any truly organised MU works the same way. Anything less is just a social club.
Using your hits to protest a government decision is a entirely political
The army hits where it's supposed to hit. It's not and never has been a democracy. As a soldier your voice means absolutely fucking nothing and you should know that before you join.
The Dail is the place for whinging and moaning, not the army. The Dail voted for the rental democratically. Are we to expected to ignore the wishes of the majority just because Paddy doesn't like it? Do you have a veto over everything that goes on here? You got you chance to 'disagree with the government's position' in the Dail(over and over and fucking over again)
For what it's worth I believe that your stance on the rental deal proved to have a lot of merit and in hindsight it's debatable whether the whole thing was worth doing at all. That has nothing to do with the army though so don't drag them into it. The army serves a function. You were not happy and left. That's fine. You can't however expect to hit directly against army objectives and remain in that same army without anyone challenging you on it. And if you actually want to control where the army hits then get yourself elected President of Ireland. Otherwise please put a fucking sock in it and mooooooooooove the fuck on.
Also, you obviously don't have skin anywhere near thick enough to be e-Irish.
ibhoy shut it you old croon people are not brain dead heck most of time in the irish army i just sold their weps for a better salary and to get my 20 gold back i spend on my own mu. i did succeed in the ned. they were so clueless they even send me weps when i was in another mu.
paddy is quite correct that the IA has an agenda and continually "punish" those that do not want to follow its agenda. this is an online game there is no telling everyone to stfu and your in the army bs.
from my many games i played once you start doing that you might as well pack it in.
Oh right, we forgot that you came in 5th at the regional quarter-finalists runners up amateur online poker tournament. So much of those skills carry over to eRepublik, as we can see by all of your... um... accomplishments... funny thing, I can't think of any at the moment but I'm sure there must be many.
We bow to you oh mighty Krakkhead.
nope i won a 5000 player online tourney a 256 head to head poker tourney 3 national online tourneys back to back in 3 weeks about 2000 sit and go's and here and there a 360 player event . there was a 2000 player tourney as well. i played mostly sit and go's due to time conflicts with online tourneys. also i was 10th in a sit and go division . pokerstars has constantly 260000 players so i consider everyone a great accomplishment.
in other games i had 100 towns was tribal leader and also lead a 600 player alliance once. i was referring to strategic games tribal wars/the west and grepolis briefly trevian. you see coleman /ibhoy ppl hate you when you do these things such as these articles they see you as a preposterous douchebag. more the comments. my best skills in the games not poker was my people skills.
briefly coleman your a massive douche and will be a massive douche your whole pathetic life. your the kind of person that never grasp that simple truth about his life your simply a douche . and it keeps you on the ground you will never reach great heights in anything because you tow the line and cant thing creatively or anyway even see that you can be more. good thing is your son will see you as a douche and wont be a douche.
Always in the fight!
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Nice job
Can you send me bits of your article in pm's it was massively boring 'yawn blah blah blah army blah blah lah regiments, it sounds like the borg thinking "we are one we are one sentient being if you hurt one you hurt all of us the loss of one although felt by all will not stop the borg from taking over your home planet and assimilating you and your whole family. Please do not resist and prepare to be assimilated.