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Pretty sure real combat aircraft don’t have a coffee maker or personal assistant…In real combat aircraft, pilots just do what the ACSO / AEC / AWC tell them to do.
Pretty sure real combat aircraft don’t have a coffee maker or personal assistant…In real combat aircraft, pilots just do what the ACSO / AEC / AWC tell them to do.
A very good description of what tent routine can be like. Not only that, in a tactical situation the LPs and sentries must be manned. So the sentries have to know where their relief sleeps. -24C? LuxuryThe army equivalent is one hour rotations being the awake guy in a ten man arctic tent. Your job is to keep the stove and lantern lit and fueled but also keep everything else not on fire from the couple fires burning inside your tent. At some point during the night, while you’re buried face deep into your fart sac because the lights are literally still on (for heat), someone shines a red Petzl lamp on your face, gently bakes you and says “you’re on piquet!” You are now it for an hour.
A few things are inevitable: the stove and lantern, which are good for a few hours of fuel, will need to be refilled on your shift, probably cause the last guy was an asshole. They must be filled outside. Also, you have to piss and it’s -24. You regret the choices that brought you here.
AEC/AWC don’t tell us what to do, they inform and recommend. The success of mission falls upon the mission commander who makes the tactical decisions. That person is often flying a single seat aircraft.In real combat aircraft, pilots just do what the ACSO / AEC / AWC tell them to do.
The army equivalent is one hour rotations being the awake guy in a ten man arctic tent. Your job is to keep the stove and lantern lit and fueled but also keep everything else not on fire from the couple fires burning inside your tent. At some point during the night, while you’re buried face deep into your fart sac because the lights are literally still on (for heat), someone shines a red Petzl lamp on your face, gently bakes you and says “you’re on piquet!” You are now it for an hour.
A few things are inevitable: the stove and lantern, which are good for a few hours of fuel, will need to be refilled on your shift, probably cause the last guy was an asshole. They must be filled outside. Also, you have to piss and it’s -24. You regret the choices that brought you here.
In real combat aircraft, pilots just do what the ACSO / AEC / AWC tell them to do.
The probability of any given thread veering off towards pooping (or not pooping) in the field is low, but never zero.Thread title? Thread topic?
Lets not forget radio watch -A very good description of what tent routine can be like. Not only that, in a tactical situation the LPs and sentries must be manned. So the sentries have to know where their relief sleeps. -24C? Luxury
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Or gennie refill or heater replenLets not forget radio watch -
The army equivalent is one hour rotations being the awake guy in a ten man arctic tent. Your job is to keep the stove and lantern lit and fueled but also keep everything else not on fire from the couple fires burning inside your tent. At some point during the night, while you’re buried face deep into your fart sac because the lights are literally still on (for heat), someone shines a red Petzl lamp on your face, gently bakes you and says “you’re on piquet!” You are now it for an hour.
A few things are inevitable: the stove and lantern, which are good for a few hours of fuel, will need to be refilled on your shift, probably cause the last guy was an asshole. They must be filled outside. Also, you have to piss and it’s -24. You regret the choices that brought you here.
Strange how none of this makes it into the recruiting brochure.Inevitable as well is that your shoulder and hips will depress your air mattress to the ground so they will slowly freeze . . . at least until the whole air mattress deflates to the point that all of your body is now in contact with the frozen ground and freezes.
Also the fact that within three days of Endex you start to weigh the chances that you can make it all the way through to the end without a further bowel movement.
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One less than successful, but very truthful, recruiter I worked with explained the Infantry as "It's just like a camping trip with guns. Except you have to fight your way to the campsite, carrying everything you own, and defend it once you get there while all the other campers try to kill you."Strange how none of this makes it into the recruiting brochure.
One less than successful, but very truthful, recruiter I worked with explained the Infantry as "It's just like a camping trip with guns. Except you have to fight your way to the campsite, carrying everything you own, and defend it once you get there while all the other campers try to kill you."
So…about that trial….
That would be cool.I’m at court and the matter I’m here for got delayed. I may actually see if I can find it and sit in for a bit.
Sat in for a while, he was getting cross examined. It was interesting to watch.That would be cool.
Sat in for a while, he was getting cross examined. It was interesting to watch.