Choices! What will it be? #52

Hello everyone,
It's your favorite Steemian @rakiya from Nigeria and I'm delighted to join in this contest organized by @patjewell in this noble community today. It's a wonderful contest and I love to share my participation in it.

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In this contest today, we are given 5 items to choose from and then write in detail about them it is indeed a great privilege to be among those choosing and making my choice.

Everyone in life can make a choice and that is the reason why this contest is outstanding among others I have seen recently. I remember in the scriptures the Bible said that God gave them the chance to choose.

So anything we do in life, the choices we make matter a lot. Today among the list of items presented I would like to choose one out of them and then write my reason for making that choice that doesn't mean the others are not good but as I have said earlier everyone has a choice.

I chose a soldier 🪖 from the list provided and I will write all I know about a soldier and the reason why I have selected it from the list given in the contest.

A soldier is a person whose primary duty is to defend the country from any external body i.e. a soldier is meant to defend their country against terrorism and any country coming into it for troubles or war.

I'm a Nigerian and from history, Nigerian soldiers have been part of those keeping peace in Africa. I'm delighted to say that I have an uncle who is a soldier and for that reason, I know a lot about being a soldier.

So let's start with how can one become a soldier. Here in Nigeria, we have two ways in which you can become a soldier and one of the ways is by going to deport i.e. where soldiers are being trained, or by going to NDA a school also where soldiers are trained in various professions such as medicals, engineering, etc.

So to go to NDA, the requirement is that you must be 18 years to 22 years old and you must have obtained your O'level certificate with a minimum of 5 credits including English language and Mathematics.

The deport training takes 6 months. So if you have the requirements, you will apply online, and then if you get shortlisted you will attend the physical screening and after that, you will then proceed to deport for the training.

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On the other hand, if you are to get to NDA, the requirements are the same but here you will have to be in the school for 4 years before coming out as a soldier. Those who go through the deport are called recruits whereas those who go through NDA are called officers.

Immediately after the training, all soldiers will be deployed to their various units which is the barracks where they will serve the country by going for peacekeeping in areas where there is a crisis and also maintain peace and others in the area where they find themselves.

There are different ranks associated with soldiers though I may not know them all as I said they are of different categories so the recruit category always gives respect to the officers category and their salary too is higher.

The number of recruits is much higher than the number of officers. This is why you have fewer officers and more recruits in the army. So when going for a mission you will hear that a team has a 20 by 1 which means that they have 20 recruits in the team and 1 officer.

Soldiers especially in Nigeria have faced a lot at the hands of terrorists, especially in recent times here in Nigeria. We have heard that Boko Haram has been the nightmare of Nigerian soldiers over the past few years.

So that is all I want to say about a soldier 🪖 and my explanation today is based on the experience and knowledge I have about my country's soldiers. I hope you have learned from me about who a soldier is and his or her duty to the country.

I want to invite @jasminemary and @dave-hanny to join the contest also.