Re: The army
 

Machette of Dull. oOo:

Rather exceptional coming from a retard to say the least...ffs eek:

Gracias senior woodchuck.

Howard Zinn is a wanker.

hellfire:

[quote="Duke_of_Ray":326bf]Thank you sir. A +1 to you.

To be sexy with beans you must first eat them for every meal for one month straight. Then bath 3 times in them. After that just pop out a can of beans and ladies will flcok all over you.[/quote:326bf]

it shall be done my leige

First of all, Im sorry for digging this up, but I cant be arsed to start a new thread.
Then again, its only me that hasnt been able to check back in for a week now.

Secondly; Duke, get the fuck out of my thread, and never return. oOo:

And now to the update: This last week, weve been practicing winterwarfare, basically.
Weve been crawling around in the snow, finding firing positions in the forest,
all while it was -20 C and while wearing full combatgear (regular M90 uniform,
snowuniform, combatharness and belt), plus a backpack weighing(sp?) in at around 30-35 kg.
Weve also been marching around for about 5-8 km a day this week, in the outfit described above.
Nothing of this has really bothered me, except for the cold. Anyways, yesterday
was the first time we got to fire our AK's, and it wasnt that big of a happening tbh.
Its a very fine calibre gun, only 5.56, which means theres not that much of a recoil to it.
The gun is also constructed in a fucked up way, so that the recoil kicks the gun up more
than back. Ah well, our platooncommander, Lt. Ericsson, told us hes requested new
AK's for us; the AK5CF, which only has been used by special striketeams in the army before.
He also told us that theres a huge chance that we will be testing various foreign guns
later in our training. Ive already made sure im going to try the MP5, the M4 and hopefully an M60.
Well, thats all from me for now, check back next weekend for a new update (this upcoming
week we are having fieldtraining. Sleeping in the snow for 3-4 days.)

PS. Yeah, its mandatory here in Sweden aswell. But I dont complain, I love it.
Im being promoted to Corporal in about 123 days or so.

Over and out. happy:

You are promoted just for being in the army? oOo:

[quote="Jin-Roh":bdcde]You are promoted just for being in the army? oOo:[/quote:bdcde]No, cause hes just that damn leet.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":83396][quote="Jin-Roh":83396]You are promoted just for being in the army? oOo:[/quote:83396]No, cause hes just that damn leet.[/quote:83396]

Kind of. Im squadcommander of the 4th surveillance and strikesquad, 5th company. So once ive finished my NCO-training, i get my Corporal bars.

Can you post pics? Anyway gl man.

[quote=Tystnad][quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":e5cda]No, cause hes just that damn leet.[/quote:e5cda]

Kind of. Im squadcommander of the 4th surveillance and strikesquad, 5th company. So once ive finished my NCO-training, i get my Corporal bars.[/quote:e5cda]Cool. rock:

[quote="Bean 2":51154]Can you post pics? Anyway gl man.[/quote:51154]

Yeah, Ill post some pics if I can get my bloody camera to work. Weve got fieldtraining from Monday to Wednesday I think, which means we will be running around in the forrest in full combatgear for a few days. See if I can get ya some pics of that. And thanks for the headups, I might need it. happy:

cool. have fun. if you can get the pics, no worries. just give em hell.

The US Army is silly. You get a medal or completeing basic training, and throwing a grenade. GG Army. Ive been in the marines for 2 years and ive got 2 ribbons.

I was thinking about ROTC for long time, but turhtfully, I think I would make a terrible lieutenant. Just for a whole bunch of reasons, really...

...Navy kinda looks pleasing to me. I mean, one of those battleships has enough god damn power to bomb out England sitting still.

Two years, one would be the National Defence. What is the other one? I served 4 years and only got two, The National Defence and a Good Conduct.

Semper Fi

beer:

Your thread is to awesome for me to stay away. Anyways, it is great that you are serving your country without complaining. It also seems like you are proud to do so. I should get to go into the Air Force as an E-2(Airman Basic), because I should have 20 college hours. I want get to do all that cool stuff you are, but it should be fun. Maybe one day we shall meet while fighting some crazy enemy, we can only hope. :)

By the time a war breaks out involving Sweden and the US you will hopefully be dead duke. beer:

[quote="Sgt. Duffy":16012]I was thinking about ROTC for long time, but turhtfully, I think I would make a terrible lieutenant. Just for a whole bunch of reasons, really...

...Navy kinda looks pleasing to me. I mean, one of those battleships has enough god damn power to bomb out England sitting still.[/quote:16012]Anything more than a year and you probably didn't have the brain power to think past power rangers in space.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":0e031]By the time a war breaks out involving Sweden and the US you will hopefully be dead duke. beer:[/quote:0e031] rock:

[quote="Sgt. Duffy":969c3]I was thinking about ROTC for long time, but turhtfully, I think I would make a terrible lieutenant. Just for a whole bunch of reasons, really...

...Navy kinda looks pleasing to me. I mean, one of those battleships has enough god damn power to bomb out England sitting still.[/quote:969c3]
lol aren't you like 13

[quote="Sgt. Duffy":5b17d]

...Navy kinda looks pleasing to me. I mean, one of those battleships has enough god damn power to bomb out England sitting still.[/quote:5b17d]

Theres no such thing as a battleship these days really.

[quote=geRV]Theres no such thing as a battleship these days really.[/quote:75015]I guess Duffy's research from the game "Battleship" is not valid anymore.

[quote=Coleman]I guess Duffy's research from the game "Battleship" is not valid anymore.[/quote:9ccd0]

biggrin:

Used to be navies backbones were battleships, now its aircraft carriers, battleships started to be phased out after ww2.

... and what the hell is a frigate? oOo:

[quote="Jin-Roh":60ea0]... and what the hell is a frigate? oOo:[/quote:60ea0]Wasnt that a level on goldeneye oOo:

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":26e1c][quote="Jin-Roh":26e1c]... and what the hell is a frigate? oOo:[/quote:26e1c]Wasnt that a level on goldeneye oOo:[/quote:26e1c]

Yes, but it is also a type of ship. I just don't really know what they are good for. eek:

[quote="Jin-Roh":75043][quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":75043][quote="Jin-Roh":75043]... and what the hell is a frigate? oOo:[/quote:75043]Wasnt that a level on goldeneye oOo:[/quote:75043]

Yes, but it is also a type of ship. I just don't really know what they are good for. eek:[/quote:75043]No shit its also a ship. oOo:
[quote:75043]The frigate is primarily designed for Anti submarine warfare but was designed with missile launchers for missile defense and anti surface use as well.[/quote:75043]

Heh, you wont see a battleship around my parts, but we do have some nice boats down in the southern parts of Sweden, I know we have one called Visby. Anyways, my function in the army (once my basic training is over), is to guard the Air base where Im stationed atm, plus a lot of different storage facilities all over the mid parts of Sweden. I also act in a striketeam, educated in city warfare. Also, I will be acting as armed escort for convoys and VIP's.

And to answer some questions; Yes, I am proud of serving my country. Im also proud to be one of the last 50 or so to ever serve on this particular base, since the government has decided to cut down on the army here in Sweden. The particular base is called F4, and has been around since 1926, which means its Swedens oldest Airforce base.
I also saw this as a great opportunity to get in shape again, after my "sit down and answer the phone"-job. Ive already started to notice a great difference in both bodymass, muscles and fatigue, which is pretty good for just three weeks, methinks.

frigates were used in the war of 1812! old iron sides in boston!

'Ello again all. If you want me to stop digging this thread up, I will. Otherwise, Ill keep going with this one.

Anyways, we had our first fieldtraining this week. -30 C was the coldest it got, and that was the night we tried patrolling an enclosed area for the first time. Ive got some photos that Ill try and upload asap. Other than that, nothing much., Just the basic disaassembling/reassembling of the gun and some other stuff. Anyways, I just finished my "education" on the knife, so Im now allowed to wear a knife in duty. I just wanted to know if anyone had a suggestion on what knife to get?

KABAR makes nice military blades. If you can even get your hands on one.

https://www.kabar.com/product_search.js ... e=category

Other than that - if I were you, I'd ask someone in my unit.

Yeah, Im looking for KABAR's here in Sweden, but their hard to find. I would really like this one though: [url=https://www.kabar.com/product_detail.jsp?productNumber=1221&mode=categor y&categoryId=1,2,3,7&categoryName=Military/Tactical:1f89c]KABAR[/url:1f89c]

Check out the new Italian army combat knives. You might also wanna take a look at these:

http://www.combatelite.com/knives.shtml

[img]http://www.combatelite.com/knives/cfdagger/cfdag23new.jpg[/img]

Heh, carbon fiber goodness. Fuck you meter detector!

Funky ^

[quote="Crazy Canadian":e241c][quote="Sgt. Duffy":e241c]I was thinking about ROTC for long time, but turhtfully, I think I would make a terrible lieutenant. Just for a whole bunch of reasons, really...

...Navy kinda looks pleasing to me. I mean, one of those battleships has enough god damn power to bomb out England sitting still.[/quote:e241c]
lol aren't you like 13[/quote:e241c]\
arent you like 13 too rolleyes:

Well, at the moment Im torn between the KABAR USMC Fighting Knife II and the SPEC-PLUS Marine Combat.

KABAR
[img]http://www.militaryshop.se/bilder/produkter/Kn.kab.usmcII.jpg[/img]


SPEC-PLUS
[img]http://www.militaryshop.se/bilder/produkter/Kn.splus.mcombat.jpg[/img]

Almost the exact same size, and only like $12 difference in favor of the SPEC-PLUS.

are you reserve ?

As promised, a picture of me in my combatgear. Aint the best, since I had to take some stuff of to finish a guardlist for my squad.

[img]http://img2.uploadimages.net/501612Bild_028.jpg[/img]

YOU LOOK FUCKING LEET ed: