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I had a Saudi roommate once, and after we got to talking about the military he said that Saudi Arabia has a fourth branch in the hands of the royal family to foil coups or something? That's some third world poo poo right there. He was also a lazy shitbag.
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Mortabis posted:Turns out that it's actually a fully choreographed maneuver... You ain't kidding. 
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I have a really good ANP story I heard from someone in my battery: The ANP comes across a large truck parked on a road beside a bunch of trees, and suspect that it's an IED. ANP requests American engineering assets but things are busy that day so the Americans say it will be about 8 hours. A little while later, the ANP is panicky calling for MEDEVAC for a priority 1 and an 1A. Turns out that the ANP commander got tired of waiting for EoD, so he got some private to shoot an RPG at the truck. The first round bounces off the hood, arcs high and hits a tree, killing a suicide bomber who had been hiding up there. The ANP commander is spooked now, so he insists on the private getting closer to get a better shot. Private shoots at close range, hits the truck square on the IED and there's a massive explosion. The private is obviously pretty hosed up but a fragment also caught the ANP commander right in the neck. There was also the time the battery was doing a nighttime mortar range during a pretty quiet week. Battery is doing their drills for night firing, and fire a few rounds before "stop stop stop" comes over the radio. Turns out that a Taliban platoon minus was trying to attack through the range that night and got caught in the open.
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Apr 8, 2013 15:44
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timma85 posted:Where did you here this from? When I was in S-3 that exact same story was told to me by our XO and I was never quite sure if it was true. Heard it from a couple guys who were acting as forward observers at the time.
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Apr 9, 2013 00:50
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I've heard about some pretty scary ammo screw-ups due to clerical error. Two of them off the top of my head: Back when the Reserves still had Cougars (armoured vehicles with the low velocity 76mm gun of the Alvis Scorpion) a unit got a pallet of ammunition for the Sherman 76 that was apparently still in the system. A unit doing practice with the M203 was given a crate of 40mm Bofors instead of grenades. Apparently some private almost manage to jam a shell into the launcher before someone freaked out and bootfucked him.
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Apr 10, 2013 02:01
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I'm going to say based on Pte Bloggins that it's a Canadian story. There was a girl in Angus trying to give everyone in Borden AIDS a while back.
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Apr 18, 2013 14:58
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Are suicides / overboards common at sea?
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May 31, 2013 22:42
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Were there a lot of fatal accidents over in Europe? I've heard a lot of stories about guys getting run over by AVGPs and trucks back when the Canadians were over there.
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is the best thread on the forum right now because it linked me to Humper-Monkey stories and 50FA. Thanks! "Amber Fox also is charged with soliciting a crime against nature."
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Wasabi the J posted:In the Army Now is the most accurate depiction of IET I have seen. I see what you mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObntvRcKMrE
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I've always seen the Airborne as being about the same as the horse cavalry a century ago. They had their day, but they're so caught up in their own mythos and status that they can't see how obsolete the whole idea is. In a hundred years special forces guys doing a combat drop will be as novel as riding horses in Afghanistan was in 2001.
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Didn't the Marines rebrand themselves as OBUA specialists? I remember hearing about how the Marines took all the hard urban operations tasks in Iraq (Fallujah, Nasiriyah etc.) Of course that could have just been bragging after the fact.
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Dec 23, 2013 03:51
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If it makes you feel any better, the Canadian Army has hardly any working artillery left, besides the M777.
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Not if it's cold outside. When it comes to Petawawa or Shilo, it's always cold outside. I bet Americans are living the life down in Kentucky, Georgia and California. I want the M109 back so badly, does that make me an idiot?
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Mortabis posted:What's wrong with the M777 in cold temperatures? I don't know how much is OPSEC, but it's not a good time. Crewing any gun in an open field in the Canadian winter is a bad time. It's hard on the guns and obviously everybody stuck out there working on them.
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Did he have a dog?
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Saw this on facebook. Highest voted story on r/relationships. http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/1f9okx/im_28m_starting_to_fall_for_my_24f_wife_and_am/ I'm starting to fall for my 'wife' and am unsure how to proceed. posted:
http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/1h1lay/m28_everything_with_my_wife_f24_that_i_married/ Everything with my wife that I married for insurance reason, then fell in love with, was going well... until last night.Updates. posted:
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This wasn't already a thing for the US military? Just another reason to be proud of our colonial heritage.        Sikhs are cool as hell.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:49
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Didn't the Italians lose 12 battles over the same spot or something?
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I've spent nights walking through swamps looking for dropped magazines, and that poo poo isn't even serialized. Of course people have found boxes of linked ammo and grenades in the training area before so who loving knows.
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I don't know if this is just a Canadian thing, but if any CADPAT item is lost or stolen the Military Police have to be involved. Apparently digital camouflage is still super duper secret or something. This means a world of hurt for any lost camouflage items.
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I went through basic with a Doctor of Anthropology. Course Staff spent some of their free time looking up questions about his field, and punished us collectively if he got them wrong.
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Can anyone explain how any of this works? I understand turning the engine's energy into spinning the propeller, but this looks really intricate.    I don't know what I was picturing, but now I understand why you wouldn't want foreign objects floating around in that.
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May 3, 2015 23:27
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So how bad are things going to be for submariners now that the Irish Terrorist Robot hosed them over? I'm guessing there will be massive amounts of bullshit, but maybe cooler heads will prevail.
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May 20, 2015 13:45
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Well there's your proof that we need to go back to 7.62. 
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Here's another one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SscN-aBYHNI It's kind of funny because something like 90% of artillery fires in 1966 were unobserved Harassment and Interdiction missions. Hearts and Minds  e: there were way less black people in the USMC film than the Army one, is there a particular reason for that? Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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IR optics have come a long way since my section had to use a TOW sight as a stand-in for the proper poo poo that wasn't available. The picture on that is amazing. e: can anyone chime in on how dangerous those commercially available lasers are?
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Cojawfee posted:I guess they've never heard of IR cameras. Canadianforces.txt
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Since 2009, Commonwealth citizens need to reside in the UK to enlist. I know because I was a Canadian idiot that tried to join the Royal Marines when the CF combat arms was full.
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TCC has a far higher mortality rate than GiP, if I remember. When they were taking Phenazapam, and the Opiate thread was still open there was nearly a death a month.
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Pesticide20 posted:I liked to shout "Pew! Pew!" I got kicked by the DI and called a pussy because I said "Pew! Pew!" instead of "Bang! Bang!". e: One time we were running a mortar conversion course, and had a bunch of French guys brought in from the neighboring brigade to pad out the numbers / qualify them instead of just sitting around in garrison. One of their NCOs was a Mexican guy who got accelerated promotion because of time served in the Mexican Marines or something. He spoke no English and terrible French. The first night at the Z-Lines before heading out he almost burned his eyebrows off while fiddling with a Coleman stove. After firing for a couple hours, the Safety Officer got a call from Range Control saying we were dropping rounds way outside of the impact area, and almost hitting the highway that runs through the Training Area, and is open to civilian traffic. Well, the safety officer hikes out to the firing position and notices that the tube that the Mexican guy was in charge of is several hundred mil off, pointed in entirely the wrong direction. He had apparently not understood the information from the CP and just laid his tube on what he *thought* was the correct bearing instead of asking for confirmation. He wasn't charged but his 2IC, who had been trying to point out the mistake and correct it was. Easier to charge a Corporal I guess. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:were you ffl or something? Sadly, no.
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Wouldn't an engineer recce team do a survey to determine how the river usually flows when the position was first established? I don't know how things are done in the US, but when my battery had to cross a water obstacle the engineers were out for days before marking routes and measuring depth. They still hosed up by not accounting for moving the guns off the ferry, and that turned into a 18 hour ordeal when our recce, FOOs, CP, security element and rations all crossed the river and we didn't. That was a long couple days of being parked beside the road, waiting for food and to re-establish contact with the unit.
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My favourite movie/TV site is covering the new season of Serial and it's hilarious.quote:Whether Bergdahl had deserted his platoon or set off the DUSTWUN alarm didn’t matter that much to me, because I’m a pinko liberal commie, and I felt he was justified in either respect. The conditions were awful, command was screwing him over, and no one would listen to him. He was frustrated, so he attempted to do something about it. http://www.pajiba.com/serial/serial-episode-2-how-much-do-you-hate-bowe-bergdahl-now-.php
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I've often wondered what percentage of manpower the Germans had forming blocking detachments, shooting deserters and carrying out the Final Solution until the very end of the war. Apparently they were hanging dudes from lamp posts even after Hitler killed himself. That's some kind of crazy. One Gomer Pyle trying to skate by hanging Nazis is downright sensible.
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MA-Horus posted:I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that a guy got hazed to death and basically nothing was done about it. That's what gets me. I worked with a guy who was hazed to the point of threatening suicide the night before the grenade range, but there was a course correction and staff started to help him instead of trying to force him to quit. His Korean family would disown him if he gave up, so for better or worse he was committed to hanging in. The fact that the gay kid was hazed and (allegedly) beaten up was hosed up. He wasn't even a bad troop just scared.
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I've always been curious what grunts thought of being told to advance at a walk on The Somme or patiently wait for the seawall to be breached at Dieppe.
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I wonder if books written about the Iraq War in 50 years will have the same "Lions lead by Donkeys" narrative that the historiography of the First World War has taken on. I don't see anyone equating Petraeus with Wellington, at any rate.
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Don't Mormons have bunkers full of genealogy records for reasons? That Mission must be serious business if it was enough for Mitt Romney to avoid going to Vietnam..
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Speaking of Mormons... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqO9JjQOMt4 quote:Long after Jeffs’s arrest, an extreme culture of child brides, excommunication, and “concentration camp”-like compounds has allegedly survived under the nose of local law enforcement, including police who are members or former members of the church. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/sheriff-covered-up-mormon-child-marriage.html
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