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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Lots of IARs. I think the plan was to replace SAWs with them but because of the small clips they kept SAWs around. Still at least 1-2 per platoon thats loving it? go from 9 to 1 or 2? who thought that was a smart idea? yea lets replace this lmg with a heavy barreled carbine and gently caress our sustained fire ability right in the rear end
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:thats loving it? go from 9 to 1 or 2? who thought that was a smart idea? yea lets replace this lmg with a heavy barreled carbine and gently caress our sustained fire ability right in the rear end dudes who carried the saw made the call. it's a bitch to carry & a even bigger bitch to clean. gently caress the saw forever.
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I wasn't really in a real unit I'm sure in country they had a lot more. They barely started using IARs there I believe
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:dudes who carried the saw made the call. it's a bitch to carry & a even bigger bitch to clean. gently caress the saw forever. maybe they should harden the gently caress up instead
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:dudes who carried the saw made the call. it's a bitch to carry & a even bigger bitch to clean. gently caress the saw forever.
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Spicy Guacamole posted:give 'em 240s
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Spicy Guacamole posted:give 'em 240s
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Spicy Guacamole posted:give 'em M2s
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The M2 was my bitch for a long time. Miss that oval office.
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Master Bateman posted:The M2 was my bitch for a long time. Miss that oval office.
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The new one with the titanium receiver and no head space and timing were fuckin' legit. The most legit feature of them was to send SNCOs into a frothing rage that they can't have people practice headspace and timing for the entire week anymore.
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not caring here posted:The new one with the titanium receiver and no head space and timing were fuckin' legit. We were one of the testbed units for that. Almost every receiver cracked during burn in firing.
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Hahahahahah, awesome. Well, it looks like they fixed them, or at least good enough for us to swap one around on 3 different tanks for a gunnery. They said it was supposed to be lighter, but it didn't feel much lighter to me.
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Started popping up in the post armory about 2 years ago I think.
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not caring here posted:The most legit feature of them was to send SNCOs into a frothing rage that they can't have people practice headspace and timing for the entire week anymore. this, right? sorry, i was a nasty girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XA107LH2H4 we had a dude deglove his fingers and his battle said he was doing headspace/timing stuff. i just nodded.
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I had a complete brain death moment and couldn't tell you. Then I saw that fuckin' headspace gauge and it allll came back. Yeah, that's it.
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I've heard some soldiers opt to have their sperm/eggs frozen before going to war in order to ensure that they will have kids when they come back. Does the military provide those kind of services? How would a soldier go about something like that?
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Benny the Snake posted:How would a soldier go about something like that? I'm pretty sure you jackoff in a cup and then someone freezes it.
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Benny the Snake posted:I've heard some soldiers opt to have their sperm/eggs frozen before going to war in order to ensure that they will have kids when they come back. Does the military provide those kind of services? How would a soldier go about something like that? Are they worried they're gonna lose their junk to an IED? Or do they just want to skip the bloated angry spouse part of pregnancy? I think most people just deposit the sperm directly into the baby hole. Or someone else does it for them while they're deployed.
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Victor Vermis posted:Are they worried they're gonna lose their junk to an IED? Or do they just want to skip the bloated angry spouse part of pregnancy?
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Benny the Snake posted:Well I meant female soldiers, actually. Would the military provide fertility services to perserve her eggs if she was concerned about becoming infertile or otherwise incapable of carrying children due to injury on the battlefield? She'll probably get a few babies fired into her overseas.
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Benny the Snake posted:Well I meant female soldiers, actually. Would the military provide fertility services to perserve her eggs if she was concerned about becoming infertile or otherwise incapable of carrying children due to injury on the battlefield?
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Dead Reckoning posted:Generally, no. If you have a preexisting medical condition or your Primary Care Manager writes a really good referral recommendation, you can probably get them to pay for it, but this is true of everything up to and including boob jobs. For general existential angst about deploying to a combat zone, the typical treatment is 400mg of Harden the gently caress Up. Most women worried about having babies and deploying take the easy route and get knocked up, which makes you ineligible to deploy.
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Separate question: how many drops does a paratrooper make on average in a single tour?
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A combat tour? Zero. Good luck with your novel. EDIT: Benny the Snake posted:I seem to recall a news story a while back where (male) soldiers were having their sperm frozen before shipping off to Iraq. If I remember right, this was before or during the begining of Operation Iraqi Freedom and their fear was that the Iraqis would use the same gas that was used during the Gulf War which could cause inferitlity. Anybody remember that news item? I'm certain some people were dumb enough to believe that, but the government won't pay to freeze your jizz because you're nervous and gullible. Those guys were almost certainly paying out-of-pocket. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Benny the Snake posted:Wait so paratrooper's don't these days? If not, I'm gonna ask the military history thread then. I'm actually taking a stab at the military sci-fi genre so I'm wondering if I could base hard drops on paratrooper ones. There have been combat drops more recently than the Marines have done opposed amphibious landings, but both are pretty irrelevant in today's battlefield.
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Stultus Maximus posted:There have been combat drops more recently than the Marines have done opposed amphibious landings, but both are pretty irrelevant in today's battlefield. Despite what most marines and paratroopers will tell you.
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Benny the Snake posted:Wait so paratrooper's don't these days? If not, I'm gonna ask the military history thread then. I'm actually taking a stab at the military sci-fi genre so I'm wondering if I could base hard drops on paratrooper ones. The last time the US Airborne did an opposed airdrop was in 2003, and that was only opposed in the sense that the Special Forces who actually seized the airfield opposed having to park all their helos off field so that Colonels could get DFCs and bronze stars for their jump wings. If you're writing loving sci-fi I would stop worrying about making it realistic to modern military experiences. Unless you're going to write 100 pages about scraping carbonization out of laser guns and police calling e-cigarette butts from the dropship pad. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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^^^gently caress youuuuuuuuuBenny the Snake posted:Wait so paratrooper's don't these days? If not, I'm gonna ask the military history thread then. I'm actually taking a stab at the military sci-fi genre so I'm wondering if I could base hard drops on paratrooper ones. Let's take a look at combat drop records: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/airborne-jumps.htm The last static-line mass combat drop was during the invasion of Iraq, and it wasn't really into enemy held territory. Basically a way for some guys to get a combat star on their jump wings. It's just not really necessary in wars like this where we can move troops through friendly nations or ground we already hold. The only exception would be free fall operations done by special operations types, but that's not really comparable to a mass static line drop.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:^^^gently caress youuuuuuuuu It really says something about the Pentagon that during an actual real life war, they plan photo op bullshit like this so a unit can feel good about itself.
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Stultus Maximus posted:It really says something about the Pentagon that during an actual real life war, they plan photo op bullshit like this so a unit can feel good about itself. I got bad news for you buddy
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Stultus Maximus posted:It really says something about the Pentagon that during an actual real life war, they plan photo op bullshit like this so a unit can feel good about itself. 
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Stultus Maximus posted:There have been combat drops more recently than the Marines have done opposed amphibious landings, but both are pretty irrelevant in today's battlefield. Opposed amphibious landings are completely irrelevant. Amphibious landings are still a pretty effective way to put boots on the ground somewhere though. It's a gently caress ton cheaper than trying to fly in heavy stuff when you can just pull it off the ship you were on.
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That time of year to do my OER support form. Having trouble writing bullets points - does anyone have any good examples for an OERS for a company XO?
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"Improved office efficiency by repositioning fax above paper shredder, resulting in 5000 man hours saved during FY14."
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Mr_Ruckus posted:That time of year to do my OER support form. Having trouble writing bullets points - does anyone have any good examples for an OERS for a company XO? "Commander never needed a blowjob because he had me." This was pretty much the case in my company. Our xo stayed til like 10pm every night while the commander went home to his smoking hot wife. That I hit on at the military ball shortly before he became our commander.
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