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You can carry a 'spare' knife your whole career and only ever need it once - but you'll be damn glad you had it if it saves your life. I have tons of knives of all different shapes and sizes - they are tools.   As I believe has already been mentioned - knives/guns/crossbows don't kill people -...

Captain Jacks and the White House didn't hold a candle to the 'Florida 2000' in Nairobi, Kenya circa '93 (Leave Center for Op Deliverance - Somalia). Closest I ever came to knowing what a girl felt like in Sassy's in the early 90's ;D Had to be a 20 to 1 ratio  - in favour of the young ladies...

Yeah, it worked really well on all the drug interdiction patrols when we had to blend in to the cannibis fields................ :-X

For Infanteer and all interested: And as to us getting them take the following date and add 10 or 20 years. Full article: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5502

Hi Al, My sincerest apologies for taking the piss at your expense.  It was too good to resist :salute: Infanteer, and all interested: I will move the new parachute info to an appropriate forum in equipment.  See you there.

Hey Al, I dunno if THIS is true or not, maybe you can clarify.  I heard a while back that tankers started the whole human rights thing.  (Changes voice to Dennis Hopper in True Romance) Yeah, yeah.  I'll take that chesterfield now.  Based on speculation that, like their Russian counterparts...

Yeah, well it didn't take much convincing.  It basically comes down to this: Longevity:  You can pay 50 bucks a man now or thousands of dollars a year for his military pension.  Plus you will lose return on your investment after training the shit out of him and losing him early to career-ending...

These are the first iteration.  A few years ago, after buying them for myself, I staffed a paper and got the CO to buy a few hundred sets of these and elbow pads(which no-one really uses).  I saw some cheap old bastards on 6B course using everything from volleyball to rug-layers kneepads when...

HeeHeeHee.......The voice of reason and experience raises it's ugly head. The man's completely right troops.   I've had more than enough opportunity to wear kneepads for sustained periods in austere circumstances.   If you wear them all the time, particularly when on the move, you will...

http://www.diemaco.com/ I'm not sure how far towards the opsec/persec line we are going here, so I will err on the side of caution and stick to generalizing. Firstly, I'm not a sniper - I've had my share of good go's, so I understood when they chased me out of the office waving my 490A (MPRR)...

If ya'll haven't figured it out yet, I'm not about to waste effort arguing with those that will digress to compensate for lack of knowledge. Infanteer, I am not an SME of anything.  I will however answer any questions, or make an effort to get the answers to legitimate questions, should they...

Ahhhh.......Infanteer you are a breath of fresh air.  You posted your latest as I was composing my last message, and was of the thought that things where going south. Last tour in Afghanistan I did just that. As our AO was predominantly OBUA, we had tailored our weapons systems accordingly. ...

Sarcasm is a fool's wit. Obviously, discussing this......like for the sake of argument.........the merits of designated marksmen/sharpshooters as an interim measure to your perceived endstate, would be a total waste of time. Over and out to you, Farmboy.

Do you have any idea how ambitious that idea is? Who is gunna train all these snipers? We can't even keep up with the attrition where we need it most.

Nor do I, I'm in a constant fugue state. ;) Endeavour to NOT be a part of that body.  NEVER condone it's actions.  To me it's all about realm of influence.  I've come to terms with the fact that I will never run the country.  As a matter of fact there are times when I wonder if I could...

They've also been around a lot longer than those NEW cell phones and GPS units.  Remember the size of the first iteration of anything electronic? Not that I'm defending them..........fact of the matter is, since the selective availability was shut down I have always used personal GPS due to...

No Doug, that just applied to you.  Cuz we couldn't figure out a way to make you tie it on so you wouldn't lose it. :-* ;D

If it's any consolation, the good professor was in Afghanistan while I was there.  She definitely falls under the generation that she has painted a rosy picture of. Draw your own conclusions ;)

O.K. Ramsay. Fair enough.  Point taken.  There are a lot of different 'types' on this site. So......... are you part of the problem or part of the solution? Not very productive input so far as I see it. Trolling and baiting don't count as an effort to improve recruiting, inform the...