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Yes, for Armour and Urban Ops the shorter barrel is better for confined spaces, but for accuracy and rugged dependability the Infantry need rifles... That is where the main requirement is for pers weapons and for armoured pers to sing the praises of the carbine over the rifle is just plain...

Yes I too am fairly skeptical of Soviet aircraft, and i do prefer western nay N. American kit. However, with the C-5's just as old as the Herc, we'd have to do some serious upgrades WRT avionics, and even airframes, and control surfaces and that would be costly. We could buy brand new C-17's...

Your first few weeks of the SQ is weapons trg, perswpns handling tests,  LMG and GPMG and grenades, interspersed with the ranges and PWT 2 on the SQ i believe. To answer your other questions, you're bloody right on the field ex you will dig trenches, NAV by day and night and with PLGR's, section...

If the Gov't were truly serious about maintaining a strategic airlift capability it is necessary to replace the older 'E' models of the Hercs as their airframes are damn near 40 years old and showing it.  In the early nineties we bought a couple of stretch 'H' models i believe from a middle...

Yes cheeky monkey you may be right but step back for a second and think of the day the government and NDHQ in all their infinite wisdom might actually put mission requirement and common sense before the almighty dollar. If you had only seen the training that goes on in the real Army, (TMST Trg...

Roto 3 for Afghanistan is roughly 700 pers, u've got NSE, NCE, FP Coy, Eng Sqn, and Armd/Recce Sqn... IMHO, too much NSE and not enough infanteers, (ref: only 2 platoons in our company) our beloved CLS blatantly told our OC that we should use troops from the lodging nations for camp security as...