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You can also just buy counterweights. https://www.tnvc.com is the main source for anything nods-related. I highly recommend counterweights, especially the ones where you can switch out how many lead weights are in there. I was able to run dual PVS-14's with counterweights on the back for a 7 mile night hike, and I didn't have any sort of bad feeling in my head as a result. Without the counterweights, my forehead would otherwise feel like Gregor Clegane was crushing it after about a half hour. If you want a good chinstrap, Ops Core makes a good one. Again also at TNVC.
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loving tell me about it  Good thing I have no other expensive hobbies or wife or kids!
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Stanley Goodspeed posted:Belated NVG chat - my first time driving a HMMWV in Afghanistan / second time ever was in the dark with PVS-7s, in Kunar outside of Camp Blessing in case you've had a chance to visit. Place is super mountainous and the roads are, at best, only slightly more than the width of the vehicles, with a steep drop on one side and a cliff face on the other. I pretty much just scraped the side of the truck against the rocks the entire time as my team leader in the TC seat just resigned himself to saying "no, left, left, stop, left" since I couldn't see a loving thing and I was really worried about rolling down a mountain and killing us all. PVS-7's are the worst thing ever. No depth perception whatsoever. Every single time I put one on, I would trip on something and bust my rear end in a calamitous manner.
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Rifle length stock assemblies are different from carbine length. If they swapped out to M4 stocks, they would have swapped out the entire assembly. Putting a rifle buffer in a carbine stock tube would mean you can't charge the weapon all the way.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:we had m-16s in iraq but a few people bought the m4 upper receivers so they could walk to the chow hall easiet A couple dudes from my Bn's old recon platoon bought their own M9s privately and brought them on deployment. I think their immediate chain of command knew, but no one else was the wiser. I was like drat, I wish I had thought of that.
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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 Yeah I mean on one hand it would be cool to have a pistol and legitimately say you carried it to war. On the other hand, it's a goddamn Beretta.
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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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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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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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Well if you insist  timg'ing these so they aren't too obnoxious.  
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TBeats posted:Yeah but infantry likes to jerk off about how they aren't pogs. Our PL was a reclass and would tell us how scared pogs were of infantry. "And I know, because I used to be a pog." That's the strangest pep talk I've ever heard of.
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redneck nazgul posted:Nope. Same. Contracting is rad. Only way I'd go back in the army would be if I could get power armor or mech pilot in my contact.
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TBeats posted:Can I use Voc Rehab for grad school? I'm going for accounting if it makes a difference, which is a fairly in demand field Yes, it only has to be 150 credits. Several people in my classes were doing that, taking grad classes at the undergrad level just to pad out the 150 credit hours. I said gently caress it because I don't really want to go the CPA/public accounting firm route.
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I wouldn't take a new M9, let alone one that's been passed around generations worth of grunts.
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Mike-o posted:Also I partially retract my previous statement about the g19 because I'm kind of rusty in my gun knowledge and apparently the P320 doesn't have a safety. But I only partially retract that statement because I'm sure the army will require the model they get have an integral safety. People will still manage to ND though. Especially fobbit officers. Some do apparently: http://soldiersystems.net/2017/01/20/sig-sauer-inc-awarded-the-u-s-army-contract-for-its-new-modular-handgun-system-mhs/ If I had to guess, I'd say the manual safety is what gave it the edge with the Army over the Glock.
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On a traditional DA/SA Sig, sure. This one is striker fired, like a Glock. I keep hearing that the trigger is actually nicer than the Glock, but I've never handled one. Only seen one show up at a shooting match once in the past three years.
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On my first contract, my team got assigned a Marine vet who was a helicopter mechanic in the 90s and couldn't shut up about how much better the Marines are than the Army. Dude was also my height and 100lbs more than me, so basically an ambulatory orb. The team at the time was mostly GWOT Army combat arms vets too. We ended up basically hazing him off the team. I'd almost feel bad, but he was such a douche about everything.
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DoktorLoken posted:Don't ESAPIs require the soft kevlar to be fully effective? Yes. For any plates that aren't built and designated as stand alone, you need soft armor backing in order for it to be fully effective.
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My first contract with a private security company in Iraq, they issued airsoft-grade plate carriers with steel plates. I bought my own stuff cause I'm a total gear queer, and felt pretty good about it.
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Since when? Every Stryker I was ever in had its own dedicated VC. Granted the PL/PSG/SL would be popping out the other front hatch, but still.
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I know I've been out a while, but yeah, confirmed, MTOE for a Stryker platoon has a dedicated VC per truck. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-21-11/image625.jpg
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Carteret posted:You think that's hosed, read Black Hearts. I read that years ago, so hosed up. That happened while I was in Iraq too and I didn't even hear about it then.
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Flikken posted:Was yours from the great TFR Bronytar incident from years back??? That's where I got mine from too. 
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You'd think again if you saw some of the IED hits Strykers took in my old unit. No way I'd have wanted to be in a humvee for those. edit: jfc this is the most old man 'back in my day' message I've posted in months now
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The only automatic weapon I'd really like to shoot again is the 240. That thing is my baby. I got to shoot a few rounds out of a full auto MPX a couple months ago, and it just made me mad that my MP5K doesn't have a giggle switch.
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Soulex posted:How many privates could YOU fit into a portapotty? Not as many as in your mom.
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Mike-o posted:i somehow managed to figure it out good enough to look at some titties I was the company lesbian porn distributor. Even managed to get it to the Bn XO and CSM somehow! This was back in 2005 when grunts REALLY didn't know how to use computers, and I had a near monopoly with my external hard drive.
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Zeris posted:who gives a gently caress, the only way to lose at life is to forfeit a chance for happiness when it's offered. Wisdom.
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I met Deathy Mcdeath once in Rawah. That is, I woke him up after his shift to sat WHATUP or something. poo poo was like 11 years ago at this point.
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HERESY GROWS FROM IDLENESS
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Vahakyla posted:It's all so worth it. I am so thankful that I'm not this gullible anymore.
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Coupon posted:Dude, your pictures which you posted from deployments with your giant rear end smile doing crazy poo poo like learning to shoot from a moving vehicle or whatever (if I remember that correctly, you had some SF types show you some poo poo) demonstrated the proper level of motivated. Oh no, they just took me out into the desert for their deployment-end spendex and I got to shoot some neat poo poo. Mainly because I had hooked them up with some weapon parts they need. That was more gently caress THESE GUNS ARE COOL than it was HOOAH ARMY MOTIVATED. I got to try the Hot Carl   And an MG3  And a Barrett  And a bunch of other neat poo poo, but my face is visible in those and I'd rather not post those anymore.
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In retrospect I'm pretty glad to be a five jump chump, simply by the twist of fate of the 501st being in Afghanistan when I arrived in Alaska and being assigned to the Strykers instead.
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spacetoaster posted:Anybody here ever shot the gustav recoiless rifle?  Yeah it's definitely not "recoilless" in practice. Enjoy getting the runs the next day too since the concussion shakes up your insides so much. Totally worth it.
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No you should shoot it as many times as possible because it's goddamn awesome. Totally worth getting the runs for. I mean that with no sarcasm at all. It's loving cool.
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No, it's 330 days out of a 12 consecutive month period. Doesn't stick to calendar years. Google the foreign earned income exclusion and the first hit explains it.
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