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:sarcasm: The M2b - the fibreglass version. It'll be lighter to carry but must be replaced every 50 belts due to the body falling apart. We get a better gun, the gun manufacturer gets a bigger wallet. :D

The RWS variant uses C6 or .50s...just saying (It doesn't have a 25mm on it)

Disclaimer: Everything I mention here is for 3VP. It does not reflect 1VP, 2VP, or any other Bn as I have no idea how they are organised. We are not LAV'd up. Well, as of right now, in the 3rd, we *puts on OpSec glasses* Cbt Sup (hereafter referred to as CS) used to have under it: CS CQ -Sigs...

Maybe it is or maybe...it is! (plus mortars wouldn't hurt but that's my opinion since I am too young to have ever been in the Mortars Pl, but I full-heartedly agree with their concept of ops)

I was talking to my Int buddy and we got into this discussion actually. We both conclude that you need mortars (even just the 60mm in light role) to bring indirect fire down upon then enemy when it is too hot to poke your head up. His example was a TIC his section was in where they were...

Where do you get leadership experience outside of job promotions, reserves, etc? I know that question is very daunting when you have tunnel vision and are only thinking of leadership in terms of 'motivating troops to follow you into battle' (and the best answer for that, in my experience, is...

Steve, Please refer to page 1-4 of this thread. You will find out that there is no norm for any one person vs the next, and there is no norm day in and day out. You will sit around, you will be busy. You will be shooting your weapon or cleaning it of sand. You will get jacked up for things you...

[on topic] Based on the ppt slideshow, it mentions the built-in kneepads. A ponder about this: you use the foam-insert pads and go really hard on your knee. Now you tear the knee of your pants and the CSM will tell you to go fix it at clothing. This should put a huge demand for pants, no? What...

Wow... [sarcastic rant] Yeah, Dress + Deportment sucks, but it instills discipline. By this whiney tone, perhaps we should all have optional shaving too. Since this is the 21st century, as you so aptly pointed out, we are a multi-cultural world. Therefore, let us bring in the 1st Canadian...

However, you should only get one whack with a bottle versus multiple whacks with a bat. Do you think that a weapon which "fracture[s] the skull and cause[s] a massive concussion" would do much to an enemy with its guts hanging out and face half ripped off already? There's my thought for the day.

C8A3 is standard issue with an EOTECH. Although it does meet the '100m or less' that Infanteer suggested, I personally do not like the accuracy of a holosight for things at that 100m. Decreasing the range of service rifles would significantly change the infantry doctrine which would then also...

Would you rather use H2SO4? Granted! No video games makes them seek other ways to spend their time. This, in turn, leads them to their parents who are off doing things they would normally have time to do while the kids play video games (like golf or shop). Parents now have spend time with...

Yes, I realise that. At the same time, everyone else's job entails much more than I illustrated. The point of the illustration was to highlight that certain tasks the infantry do are also done by other trades. Yes, we drive vehicles, but veh techs do much more. If they didn't do more than that...

Old Sweat +1pt for taking the words right out of my mouth (after putting them there)

I stand corrected. The wording I should have used is something that escapes my mind right now.

I thought I'd add to the thread since my 'OpSec vs Daily routine' comment kinda killed the thread. What is life as an infantry soldier like? Well, the 'infantry is unlike any other job' is a statement said by a lot of people. It is both true and false at the same time. That saying 'jack of all...

@cbaisley Good on you for being RCMP. When they say 'infantry is closed' it's not that they close the entire trade 100%. There is still even the most minute of streams that are trickled in to sustain natural attrition rates. I do believe (I am not in the recruiting process mind you) that when...

First two words I thought of when I read this was.... TOTAL RECALL :o

Granted. You pass your courses as top candidate and move on to save hundreds of lives for the betterment of humanity. However, everyone becomes so reliant on you saving lives that at an (another) appreciation dinner, you choke and die on a Swedish Meatball because no one had any clue how to help...

Um...I thought that for most of my own life and until I started watching it again with the kid, I considered them to be friends (but the 'brothers' option was still a possibility) Great, now I have the Cognitive Complexity of rmc_wannabe's kids...or is that a good thing?