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The army of the West pops up a lot in the ASAIC training safety lessons learned discussion.

Long endurance for sure can, but the absolute proliferation of short endurance UAS largely characteristic of your reference of choice works poorly those environments; with the arctic (and we'll toss in sub-arctic during winter in there) being the worst of the lot. The insulated batteries don't...

The main issue isn't so much that they're dangerous (other than producing secondary frag and spalling if struck) is that training safety doesn't require you to have ballistic plates on during live fire manoeuvre ranges until you add explosives to the mix (there are some bases that have modified...

And I specifically mentioned when it makes sense to do so, such as: hot weather tropical environments such as the jungle; long range ski based movements in the arctic or sub-arctic; and alpine and mountain environments (oddly enough, environments that the Ukrainians don't have any experience in...

I'd say I'm a big fan of being able to pack out my armour if the environment or task makes sense to do so (which is more common than you'd think), which is why belt kits and chest rigs will always be something I advocate for. Protection is huge, and not just from frag, we need the ability to...

For sure, I only used Kevin as he was the guy I've worked with the most on BMQs and DP1s (he, Matt, Danny and I basically lived together for the better part of two years out various armouries/bases) and was focusing more so on courses specific to an infanteer reaching OFP. But why I say it's a...

Since I'm in the loop within your AOR, there is a full time instructional staff, has been for four years doing both full time and part time courses concurrent (who have been responsible for keeping the bde's IT afloat for the same time frame). The problem within that particular bde has been the...

Oh god yes, especially if you have to shoot anywhere confined, and your friends will find it a lot more pleasant too.

For sure, I just don't understand the need for an 11.5 if they're not even intending to put a can on it (I can tell you that 6 callsigns will definitely gobble up the shorties in the battalion to run cans if there's a choice between 11.5 and 14.5); especially with current suppressor designs...

Mate, with reasonable ammo, a decent appreciation for connection to the gun and the appropriate firing position you can push to 500-600m effectively with an 11.5 with a reasonable amount of meaningful training/coaching. I've seen the slide show you are referring to, but the muzzle velocity...

Kind of nuts to think the Australian soldier has more or less been equipped like this for the better part of a decade if not longer.

You would be correct, I think they're on gen 5 currently, which also has different variations for SOF, combat arms and so on.

I can say at least on the 3RCR side of the house, multicam blends in just fine with MT (and the previous J-pat) so much so a lot of guys had multicam windshirts, puffys, and rain gear and no one cared too much. The plate carrier is actually a 1-for-1 copy of the OG Aussie TBAS (their later...

I would say it's a bit different to what you're saying, I meant quite literally the training establishment will fall through on ammunition, training aids or qualified instructors and simply waiver (or forget to waiver) an entire course on multiple POs; the logic being the battalion will somehow...

While I don't want to steer away the conversation about the infantry section, but being a lad that joined after our mission in Afghan ended and looking at what I've been exercised in and what our doctrine says I should be doing/able to do are quite incongruent. To steer us a bit back on track...