So in fact I was true, Pip :-) when I wrote "not exactly" to my friend Marcus, isn't it?
Three years is not nothing, I remember it for my young time when I was oblidged for duty in Czechoslovak army for one year only as graduated, two years was duty for not graduated and 3 years for Russian sailors :-)
You can't immagine how many days a year have...in army...
Jindrich