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ditto to gap's words

i do deep down agree with what is being said here in the last few posts, the equal treatment thingy goes both ways though is i guess partially the point im trying to make, not a slander/slight to those who didnt leave the wire i'll leave well enough alone

excellent stuff, gave me goose bumps

on the change of commad parade the 'highest' authority told us he was pushing for the combat action badge and the combat infantry badge, we shall see i guess the Americans we fought with couldnt fathom 'not' getting a badge for being in combat-we'll give out awards for spreadsheets ( true kaf...

not take it away per say, however there is no comparing someone's hardship who lived in hardshacks with AC and ate at a DFAC for 6-7 months to the ppl who lived outside the wire for 26-28 days/month ( average ) getting IED'd- VBIED'd or under contact for long periods of time the few times i...

i dont think the word 'tripe' is used enough, very old school and good links above, thanks for the info

every time we leave the wire there is a manifest turned in to higher, covers all css and us, its an accurate record of who is where and when

bummer

hopefully jay, and some of the other guys chime in as well, everyone has their own perspective and the more input the better- 4- we humped alot of mountains- we all used either MEC style climbing bags ( 60-70L) or BlackHawk bags or CamelBak bags, which are about 50L of storage and is all you...

Trinity, when we go to Waingwright for large ex's those who live on the base get TD while the rest of us get FA- the pay office does have somewhat of a system for this kind of idea,  but you are probably right about the headache it would cause over there

let me just say first- our training was good enough- our gear was good enough- our tactics were good enough- as issued/taught---------BUT------(disclaimer before the rant) easily the 25mm got the most kills, the typical gunner in our pl had over 20, some close to 40-confirmed kills, great...

a point that was being reviewed towards the end of our tour, although i dont know by whom or how seriously, we had heard a moveable scale was being looked at, -if for example you live for 26-28 days a month per month outside the wire those days would garner a higher scale of hazard pay then the...

the osiss folks were great, some of our ( ppl who lived outside the wire 90ish% of the time ) concerns were debriefing with ppl who had no frame of reference to our experiences, the folks hosting the various briefs were great, but didnt have much frame of reference either the were the ppl who...

shoulda mentioned earlier, THE MEDIC, remember the old days when platoon medics basically stuck with your pl for a chunk of time? so you could get to know them, trust them train them etc we were very lucky to keep the same medic for 7 months, and even luckier he was a fantastic medic, and...

bump to jay, nothing like sitting in a room listening to ppl complain about how their AC went tits up or the DFAC ran outta icecream, or how hard they heard it 'musta' been outside the wire, other than that glitch the decompression stuff was ok, except i think we 'broke' our listener person (...

they hang where the bayonet could go, zap strapped or mollied on, not so much a mod as guys on the ground adapting on their own ditto, great article

like jay said, c-13, only one dud out of roughly 100 thrown by our pl in contact, depending on the size of the room, and furnishings, they just messed up/irritated timmy a bit, so we rarely threw just one, and quite often we would get a lav3 up to push the wall in so we didnt have to go in the...

the most our pl was ever able to dismount with for any tic, was 17 pers, including pl and pl wo, crew served weapons in a fast moving tic dont work, did not work m203's were invaluable, as were c-9's, mass use of grenades was adopted as our room clearing technique things moved to fast for...

with what para said 'and try to get them to leave the PX' the only other ppl we saw fight were americans and brits, and the ana of course, i woulda thought that most euro countries would understand better then most the value of assisting other nations in a war, there is definitly an 'us' and...