marcag wrote:
hadukla wrote:
I kind of am. He could have bought an auction slot any time he wanted, I thought he once stated he wanted to truly qualify. I'm not saying that military slots aren't qualifying, I'm just referring to this specific situation in that he pretty much owns this race and where it not for him being considered "military," it wouldn't have been allotted any military slots. Sorry, not allotted, bought.
Bahrain 70.3 seems to be the only 70.3 regional championship with military slots for Kona.
I guess it's a little less obvious than if he would have put in royalty slots.
At least guys like Will and Harry actually served in real operations....this one seems like a bit of a joke. The thing about military slots is you have to be on active duty. For example it has been 20 years since my military career, but when I retired, I went on the supplementary ready reserve in Canada which is basically along the lines of "you are a civilian but if there is a crazy ass war, we flip your file to active if you want to do some work for us, or if we need to conscript, you get the first call". So in that vein, you're still "ready" (supplementary READY reserve), meaning you're kind of keeping your military skills ready to roll to get operational in a moment. So what's "active service" which is what WTC uses....it's all vague. I say can the military division and make everyone who is a military stud qualify with the rest like we used to.
Dev