Swiss Army
About Swiss Army
The Swiss Armed Forces are the military forces of Switzerland, consisting of land and air service branches. Under the country's militia system, regular soldiers constitute a small part of the military and the rest are conscripts or volunteers aged 19 to 34. Because of Switzerland's long history of neutrality, the Swiss Armed Forces have not been involved in foreign wars since the early 19th century, but do participate in international peacekeeping missions. Switzerland is part of the NATO Partnership for Peace programme.
On the show — 5 mentions total
In 1921, nearly 30% of 19-year-old Swiss conscripts had a goiter on their neck.
from No Such Thing As A Computer Tower, 2024-01-18 at 00:32:01 · read transcript
Other times Swiss Army came up
Hey, there was another musical knife that I found, which was from Switzerland in the early 19th century. It's really gorgeous. It's like an early, very basic Swiss Army knife. It's got two blades, one for fruit and one for flowers. If you can imagine a tiny Swiss army knife. What's the difference between those two things? It's like you've got your fruit knife and you're trying to cut up top off the flowering. This is not working at all.
No Such Thing As Crossing the Futility Boundary, 2021-08-06 · listen
I'm not. Hey, or a small drawer. It depends on your size, right? Is there a lot of chat between the women going, what's this plastic thing that's on the inside? At the moment is only 1% of the Swiss Army is women. They're hoping by 2030 it will be 10% just due to this pants thing. Really? Maybe. If they told more of the women about the corksker on the knives, I'm telling you they get a lot more recruits.
No Such Thing As A Guide Dog Called Neil, 2022-03-11 · listen
The idea of the thing, it came with a walking stick, which can fold out into either a paddle or a large umbrella. So you can set sail with the umbrella or row with the paddle. Actually, I read about a really interesting invention from roughly the same period, which was a cane. It was a multi-purpose cane. Effectively, the Swiss Army knife of canes. It could do a number of things. It could be transformed into a flute. You could play your cane as a flute.
39: No Such Thing As A Rocking Chair In Space, 2014-12-13 · listen
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