Tank Commander JOINS The FINNISH Army! 

"Nönnönnöö" is Finnish conscript jargon that basically means "Such-an-such". Often used in examples of undescript, unspecific servicemen, usually recruits. Alokas Nönnönnöö = Recruit Such-and-such. There's a crapload of in-jokes in this game that you can only really understand, if you've been in the Finnish Army. Nönnönnöö being one such in-joke. And as for pronouncing it. Yours was pretty good, just drop in a bunch of Ös in there. It's essentially a mix of "OE".

Now you talking!🇫🇮

From how you describe officer cadets I take it you have some kind of pre-military service program that people who want to follow such a career take part in. Not so in Finland. We all join as recruits and after basic training is over (2 months) you are selected for your future training. You can make your own wishes for what you want, but it's the professional military staff that make the actual decisions, largely based on your results during basic training and judging what each individual could be suited for. The most basic roles such as regular infantry or artillerymen serve for half a year. Specialized roles like medics for 9 and those selected as drivers or for leadership roles 1 year. I believe it's been shortened by half a month for each of them since I served but it's something like that. So for example if you're highly motivated and score well in theoretical and practical tests, you're almost certainly getting selected for leadership training. No matter what you want yourself, which causes some people to sabotage their own results to avoid having to serve for a year. But before I go off on another tangent, this group selected for leadership training all get sent to NCO school where they will be trained to become NCOs for a specific company, so for example mortar company NCOs, engineer NCOs etc. A few months into the NCO training, those who score the highest among this group get sent to "reserve officer school" where they will start training to become officers. 6 months into service NCO school ends and those who took part are promoted to corporals. The new batch of recruits arrive and the corporals are tasked with teaching them the very basics of how to behave in the military and knowledge you need as well as making sure the recruits get where they need to go, in time, with the right gear. Any "real" training is held by the professional staff which consists of a few NCOs of sergeant rank and above and a few officers of ranks up to a captain who's usually in charge of the company. Over the next 6 months these new recruits become the privates in squads led by the corporals. A few weeks after the new recruits arrived, reserve officer school ends and those who went there return to their units as officer cadets. Technically they outrank sergeants but professional staff are still above them regardless of rank. These officer cadets become the platoon leaders of the company leading the corporals who are leading the new recruits. After 12 months when military service is over for everybody, the officer cadets are promoted to 2nd lieutenants and a handful of corporals are promoted to sergeants before everybody is moved into the reserve. If you want to become a higher rank officer, NCO or such you'll have to become a career soldier after that and go to the "Finnish National Defence University". Your rank in the reserve can also increase over the years based on how many refreshment trainings you participate in.

All item's have nicknames. Blue gym suit is called "Smufs". Peaked cap is called "a duck". Winter hat is called "Elephant c*nt". Winter layer is called "teddy suit"

4:16 Those brick bunkers look exactly like the ones I was housed in at Riihimäki Signal Regiment in 2001. 8:03 That's what is known as "smurf suit". It's the regulation outfit for PE. 10:35 This type of formation is known as "häröpallo" and heavily frowned upon after day 1 when you're still considered something of a tourist. 11:20 One of *the* most essential skills for a recruit in the Finnish army is organizing your closet, second only to folding your bed cover into a perfect square.

Welcome to the Finnish Army, I'm sergeant Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas. Here is your mandatory Vodka.

The first day you wouldn't actually address the seniors accordingly or run in cadence or even salute. The first day is all about orientation, finding your unit and getting your stuff. After that you're taught the basics like properly addressing seniors, saluting etc. After it's taught, it is required!

Food Menu Monday: Cabbage casserole Tuesday: Janssons tempatation (basically potato slice and anjovis mix) Wednesday: dumpling soup (not real just meme) Thursday: pea soup (tradition every thursday, pancakes for dessert) Friday: wiener soup Saturday & sunday: siskonmakkara soup (type of raw sausage)

Imagine going to do the military service Just to make your game realistic, the devo have balls of steel 🗿

i'd love to see more of this game!

The officer candidates are reserve officers in training. They are going to become the officers of the unit you are recruit at. They have started their service half a year before you. They over rank the corporals and other conscript NCO's and they get promoted as 2nd lieutenant (res) the day they are released from the initial service to the reserves. The NCO already get promoted to their reserve rank before their conscripts enter the service. They can be promoted to sergeant (res) during the rest of their initial service. All the career military that train the troops have started as doing their conscript service and then applied to become career officers or NCO. So there are basically 2 different tiers of people and the whole nuance of it cannot be explained in one RU-vid comment. 😅

Wait, this video was only one day of training?!

The one thing about organizing your locker is that so long as everything *looks* good in unison when inspected from outside, its all good. Lets say for example you had a wool shirt that you can fold so that it can be placed to cover an entire shelf from the locker, and it was folded neatly so that it appears sharp when inspected. What you have there is essentially a concealed compartment into which you can toss literally anything, so long as it doesnt seem out of place during inspections.

We always wore rubber boots when in combat gear. I think the reason was that we got only one pair of landing boots, and we had to keep them clean. To make them less clumsy we tied straps around the ankles. Didn't look great but never had to worry about puddles at least.

This looks more like a vivid recollection of the training than the real experience, but you know, we all have our definitions of real

Dude you are awesome! You should really play World of Tanks! Edit: Also it’s so awesome you were a real life Leopard commander! In a few years here I’m going to enlist so I could serve in am M1A2 Abrams!

We use to sing while marching in formation but it has been cut back. One reason is that some of the songs would be considered "problematic" these days. For example there is this one song we use to sing and its about invading and colonizing a neighboring country while burning everyone with napalm. We also used to sing actual military marches like the Jäger March and had to learn it by memory.

Finnish Army Simulator's graphics look like My Summer Car, yet its quality and gameplay also looks like my summer car. Great job with quality content finns, you never let us down

we need another episode sir, this is great

Have you tried a game called "steel crew"? It's mainly a VR game but i'm pretty sure it can be played flatscreen as well. really makes you feel like someone who doesn't know how to drive a tank put inside a real tank cockpit

The bulletin board tells you the marching equipment is with boots, which is right. But conscripts wear sneakers until the military doctor gives them all clear.

Man this brings back some memories

"There's no way that was enough time" I do believe that is the point of the exercise. On a separate, somewhat related note, have you ever seen a TV series called "Bad Lads Army"? If not, I'd recommend giving it a look. It's pretty dated but still a good watch. A long time ago in a galaxy far fa...... wait..... no..... a long time ago, in the UK time at a military training camp was an alternative to prison time. The idea being as a form of rehabilitation and to try and avoid re-offending, and I guess in the hopes that some of the refromees would go on to join the British Army and fill up the numbers after doing their time. Anyways, they made a TV show of it, called bad lads army, that's a pretty decent watch. Not sure exactly where you get hold of it, particularly in the opposite hemisphere, but I know there's a lot of clips, and possibly full episodes floating around youtube, and a google search will probably turn up viable options to watch it too.

service is 6-12 months. edit: also nowadays you wear sneakers until you get your health check from doctor. not really sure how it is now, it's been over 20 years since my conscription, 25 to be precise.

20-30 minutes time to eat? WHAT? In basic, it was around 5-10 minutes for us... (Finland) :D

Served in Karelian Brigade in East Finland Signal Battalion 2021-2022 as Alikersantti 😎

In the the the US army we have active influencers and we also use shirts that say Army in all caps in yellow and shirt color it’s self was black and you had to have a 90° fold on all four corners

Eyyy finland! It’s my neighboring country Hope you have a good day from sweden

good video

So abit of clearance on the officer candidate overruling a corporal. That's because in finnish army we call our equivalent of private first class "Korpraali" aka corporal. And officer candidates become the equivalent of US army corporal once they graduate. So it's really just some ranks getting mixed up in translation.

Will you ever do a video on tanki online? its a fun tank game on steam

Yes

Nice

my best frend is serving in the finnish army atm and she says the game hits way too close at home xD

Epic

Wait, Finland has an army?! 😂

*My summer car music plays*

Yay

I was the fastest in basic.... wasnt fun. Drill seargents would bet on me racing people.. i ran so fucking much in basic. I ran a 9 minute 54 second two mile... so yea, i was fast.

Hey if your tank get knocked ou your going to need to pickup a gun and fight

Anyone else suddenly get a big nostalgia hit?

15:39 Monday: Cabbage casserole Tuesday: Potato & anchovy casserole Wednesday: Klimppisoppa (dir. transl. "loogie soup") - A traditional dish prepared by brewing a broth of beef bones and other less valued parts of the carcass, then adding clots of wheat dough. Thursday: Pea soup (It's actually an old Swedish and Finnish tradition to have pea soup on thursdays) Friday: Snausage soup Saturday: Smooth pork sausage soup Sunday: Smooth pork sausage soup (probably leftovers because nobody wants to work on sundays)

Its nönnönöö

the accuracy probably comes from the fact that finland has mandatory military service

the finish main battle tank doesn't even have a 50. bmg machine gun😀

You should have gotten C-papers. No need to go to the army :P

i dont know why its not informed in the game but in finnish army recruits use sneakers for few first days

I feel like that's a common mistake during basic training everywhere but the US, maybe we watched so many American movies about their military that we believe addressing your superior with "SIR" is the proper wait to do it, but in reality most countries uses the rank first followed by their last name. And please, if you talk to your superior, don't leave them hanging, know their ranks at least, but I'd rather remain silent than calling them sir, that's a no-no and might lead you to punishment.

i have a question for u panzerpaw. What country did u serve in the military and what tank did u use

Ok

Terve tuloa kaveri :)

lol

Snow

just my opinion but you are cutting a bit too much, you are leaving all the funny parts of conversations and your reactions to them lol

Mate can you do an Aussie military game plz

"JOIN THE ITALIAN ARMY"

Hang on, your from Singapore right?

Hello

the least in finnish army as conscription you would be is 6 months, depends what job you are getting specialized it can be 9 or 12 months too.

Ooo

Suomi paras

Finn here. So, how you'd pronounce the letter ö in Nönnönnöö is to take two fingers and shove them down your throat. Basically do your best throwing up impression.

Finland bogo brrrrrrr

You say everything like it’s written. Just look from google how to say it

what army did thiis guy serve in?

Well actauly RU-vid "Michelle Khare" Was recording for youtube during US army trainings i think it was also for fbi and stuff

Panzer warst du in der Bundeswehr?

nönönööö

I have question about Finnish military?

yall got fuckin 30 minutes to eat?! in my basic we had about 10-15 until the end of white phase :(

All men in Finland are liable for national service, either military or civil one. Little over 70% men complete the military service and enter reserves. Here is a good overview of the conscript system and what it entails: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LHLEY4uIqno.html

No its nönnönö its different what say sweden nunu

Meow

Why Finnish tanks sooo ugly