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One of my dad's stories about going through SF's SERE was being dropped off in the middle of the woods with a single chicken to survive for a certain amount of time. When you were picked up you had to have the chickens feet to prove that you killed and ate it. My dad figured he'd save the chicken for a couple days later and tied it with 550 cord around its foot to a tree. When he woke up the chicken was gone. So of course now he's worried about not having chicken feet with him when he gets picked up so he spent the better part of the morning hunting that drat chicken down. Eventually he found it and secured it better to the tree until it was time to eat it. The way they were taught to kill it was to place a stick over it's head on the ground, stand on the stick to either side of its head and then grab it by the feet and then yank the body upward to decapitate it. Can't remember if he said anything else about dressing the chicken.
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That sure is an interesting way to use a tank
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My dad was a career SF officer and even in retirement works as a contractor for SOCOM. Despite being a part of SOCOM he doesn't consider Rangers to really be SOF. He has a pretty low opinion of SEALs as well. He deployed to Afghanistan with a Task Force that was mostly made up of SEALs and Rangers and according to him both units routinely made some pretty dumb decisions. He's obviously biased but he says that the SF group that was also there at the same time was showing them up hardcore. He spent his whole deployment wishing he was with that SF group instead. In my short time in the Army I've been on 2 posts with Rangers and can't say I'm all that impressed either. The SF dudes on post are way more chill to deal with.
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Slim Pickens posted:When I was in, rip cadre said something like 97% of dudes in Delta were former Rangers. That might include dudes that went sf along the way, I dunno. We probably attract more dudes capable of making it through the physical part of selection, not to say sf is weak, but there's some next level meat heads in battalion From talking to my dad/uncle and their SF buddies, there isn't nearly as much interest in going to Delta in SF. They prefer the UW/FID mission of SF to the primarily DA oriented Delta. Once my dad became a more senior SF officer he started steering guys he identified as being more into DA type stuff over to Delta. It's not really true today but back in the 80's there wasn't anyone deploying as much as SF, especially 7th Group.
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Feb 8, 2017 06:52
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One of the nice things of going through ABOLC and being a scout the entire time is never having to worry about getting a tank stuck or popping track
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Richard Bong posted:I was an FO attached to scouts. I didn't know what a wash rack was until I went to JRTC after Iraq. I can just spray my boots off with a hose. One thing I noticed is that 19 series consider SBCTs a light assignment and 11 series consider them a heavy assignment. Personally I think they have more in common with IBCTs but with obviously more maintenance. I like strykers, they're pretty comfortable as scouts because there's only like 5 or 6 dudes per stryker. Still spend most of our time dismounted though.
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Feb 11, 2017 23:20
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The thumbnail of a stryker on a video about tanks was enough for me
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Interesting, I worked with several Nepalese Soldiers in the Army, one of them a Thapa. One them had mentioned him being a higher caste but I didn't really have any idea what any of that meant. All of the Nepalese I met in the Army were well educated enlisted Soldiers that consistently outperformed most of their American born counterparts and superiors. They never talked too much about Nepal but they all seemed proud to be Nepalese but I got the vibe that they weren't all that happy with how society is back in Nepal, especially the women.
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Too backwards, specifically with arranged marriages and how women are treated there in general.
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Seeing you mention a name I recognized (Thapa) made me google the last names of the others and it looks like they all have surnames related to the higher castes. Guess that makes sense since they would have an easier time immigrating to the US.
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Phanatic posted:
I had never heard of these until recently when a blackhawk mechanic friend had it happen to his unit. Did a ton of damage, I wonder what the FLIPL looks like for events like these.
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