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Solo running lacks the olfactory charm of a hungover formation run occasionally interspersed with lapping the DFAC. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. Bacon! rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end. rear end...
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Zeris posted:Yeah we had some guys do that too. Why is that cool? Just beat up a detainee like the cool kids and then you've got a story for life instead of a useless loving pistol I actually really like the Colt 1911 my unit sponsored when we got back from Afghanistan. Didn't carry it during deployment or anything but it's still a nice piece that I enjoy having around.
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bird food bathtub posted:I actually really like the Colt 1911 my unit sponsored when we got back from Afghanistan. Didn't carry it during deployment or anything but it's still a nice piece that I enjoy having around. The one we got was an overpriced FDE tan turd that doesn't accept fully loaded magazines without jamming, and one of the pins would work itself halfway out after a few range trips. Also it has a loving retarded signal flag and our unit name on it so I can't find anyone who would want to buy it.
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unless you're a medic or machine gunner having a pistol especially one you bought yourself is just masturbatory, for the weight that's like another 2 magazine for your rifle. Also gently caress eotechs forever they're loving garbage and I'm glad their dumb product is now tainted by that temperature scandal.
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Wasabi the J posted:The one we got was an overpriced FDE tan turd that doesn't accept fully loaded magazines without jamming, and one of the pins would work itself halfway out after a few range trips.
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Justin Tyme posted:unless you're a medic or machine gunner having a pistol especially one you bought yourself is just masturbatory, for the weight that's like another 2 magazine for your rifle. Also gently caress eotechs forever they're loving garbage and I'm glad their dumb product is now tainted by that temperature scandal. our medic company had 3 pistols CO, XO, and one lucky PL got em of course
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My first tour a bunch of our BN scouts brought their personal glocks- their leadership kinda looked the other way- but as we were packing up to leave country, all of them scattered the parts over the length of Highway 8 from Baghdad to Kuwait. Also, I would rather have a pistol than not. Sure, I knew I would probably never need it, but it doesn't weigh a lot, and it is always nice to have a backup. Plus, rolling around the FOB with a pistol in a but nicer than with a rifle.
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if you get to the point where you're using your backup weapon you're probably hosed anyway. you're not basil plumley.
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What's nice about MP companies is EVERYONE gets a pistol. Only had to touch my 16/203 when leaving the wire.
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Tankers too. M9 fo lyfe. Rifles are for the bustle rack.
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If I was a line haul 88m I would prob prefer a m9 in the cab TBH
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its curtains for Kevin posted:If I was a line haul 88m I would prob prefer a m9 in the cab TBH Yeah, less mass to get thrown around at you when an IED goes off.
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What's wrong with an EOTECH? I've only used one once but it seemed better than a 68.
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Mustang posted:What's wrong with an EOTECH? I've only used one once but it seemed better than a 68. Thermal drift of the dot in extreme heat or cold.
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Mustang posted:What's wrong with an EOTECH? I've only used one once but it seemed better than a 68.
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Also the springs inside the battery caps can sometimes have the glue go, and then they fall out and leave the unit useless. If you want more reasons, go to http://soldiersystems.net/ and just search "EOTech." That should give you plenty of reading material. The fact that they had a mass voluntary refund last year over that thermal drift issue is pretty damning.
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If only the Elcan SpecterDR wasn't heavy as a loving brick and costs almost as much as if you'd made it out of solid 24k gold.
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The Rat posted:Also the springs inside the battery caps can sometimes have the glue go, and then they fall out and leave the unit useless. They were quick with their refund checks though. I think I waited just under 8 weeks after turning in my 512.
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My unit tested the EoTechs for the 82d. Almost no one liked them- we had problems with brand new ones having battery contract issues, and not holding zero, along with other poo poo. Also had a couple crack on jumps and fail to live up to the manufacturer promise of still working/holding zero. I just didn't like them. No real reason, just preferred the CCO.
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Sometimes I get the vague urge to build a clone of the M4 I carried. Nothing fancy, CCO, huge surefire light and a PAQ4. Then I realize it would be inferior in every way to my other ARs and I stop.
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Goddamn it I'm gonna loving shoot myself with these goddamn things if you keep loving talking about them. Goddamn nerds.
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TBeats posted:Acog4lyfe ACOG's are awesome and I'm waiting for a decent used one to pop up to throw on my AR. I also still have the Kevlar underwear they issued us. So going to the range will be just like back in Afghanistan!
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Soulex posted:Goddamn it I'm gonna loving shoot myself with these goddamn things if you keep loving talking about them. Wahhhh, people talking about guns in the army thread
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The Rat posted:Wahhhh, people talking about guns in the army thread Wahhhh, people talking about shooting themselves in the army thread
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TBeats posted:Wahhhh, people talking about shooting themselves in the army thread 
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The Rat posted:Sometimes I get the vague urge to build a clone of the M4 I carried. Nothing fancy, CCO, huge surefire light and a PAQ4. When I own my own house and can have a no-poo poo gun safe installed in it one thing I've promised myself is an AR specifically to mimic what I carried around because gently caress you I'm mostly an adult and I make my own money. Not really practical for anything but fun, will definitely need something else for hunting and the like but I don't care at all.
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I only had an elcan for a day but that poo poo was amazing. Acog looks fancy though.
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ACOGs are meh to me. It does nothing extremely well, and everything kind of mediocre. Every so often I think about getting another, then I remember I keep selling them off to get something I like better. I also have an M4 clone with everything but the IR laser. It is nice to play with every so often, but it isn't a "work" rifle. I have used it in some comps, but that was before I fell into the rabbit hole and started buying cooler poo poo. No where near rat levels though. He is a mother fucker (j/k cool goon with cool poo poo. Post your Korne gun)
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Well if you insist  timg'ing these so they aren't too obnoxious.  
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The Rat posted:Wahhhh, people talking about guns in the army thread loving nerd
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bird food bathtub posted:When I own my own house and can have a no-poo poo gun safe installed in it one thing I've promised myself is an AR specifically to mimic what I carried around because gently caress you I'm mostly an adult and I make my own money. Not really practical for anything but fun, will definitely need something else for hunting and the like but I don't care at all. I'm glad I'm not the only person that has this goal. Like, I know how absolutely retarded it is yet for some reason I want to do it, just like when I was told to not enlist and not go infantry.
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I haven't even seen a gun in 2.5 years and I'm still in. I think that's cool.
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Aranan posted:I haven't even seen a gun in 2.5 years and I'm still in. I think that's cool. Does the Army get as sandy vagina over being called a POG as the marines? Everyone I ever worked with basically had to marry a rifle or M9. The Air Force wouldn't let me have one and that made me mad for reasons head injuries made me forget.
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Turning back the clock to NVG chat, I completely motherfucking despise the PVS-7. Migraine machine that never sets right, and I have to basically beat the supply SSG over the head with something to even get them. You know what, that might be my biggest gripe about the Army. I lucked into an actually pretty good NG unit, leadership could always be better but at least they give a poo poo about the guys (not so much my current PSG and I am leery of our new PL, but the first is taking his butterball rear end off to an SF Guard unit in Maryland to try and not embarass himself at selection, and the other is probably moldable enough that he won't burn the place down), but I have yet to have a supply sergeant who isn't a totally useless piece of poo poo. I shouldn't have to jump up and down on people to get basic gear issued. I shouldn't have to threaten knocking on the squadron commander's door to get you to loosen your grip on NVG when me and my junior medics are going to be doing night training stuff with a dismounted light infantry element, walking through woods on overcast nights. Or driving in the training area on Ft. Drum when it's blackout only. What loving genius decided that the medics driving the POS ambulances didn't need night vision to drive at night? Long story short, someone tell me where I can go to get my eyes fixed like Riddick. I even work at night at my Real Job, it would be practical.
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