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Your chances of killing at this stage are low. most soldiers haven't even seen an enemy. It's more a scatter of shots, a few mortars and that's it.Chaza said:
The Royal Artillery, The Royal engineers and Logistics all operate on the frontline, yet their tasks are not direct confrontation, so I can recommend those.
I think we should have stayed the **** out of Iraq and finished the job in Afghanistan while we had the chance. What's needed there is one heck of a lot of building for and protecting the civilians, with really good protection for the people doing that, which requires some precise clobbering of the Taliban, which requires friendly locals in a 500km radius. Shoot a Taliban op dead? Good thing. Shoot fifty of them dead? Also good. Kill one innocent local kid in the process? You've just created another hundred Taliban ops. FAIL.NinjaDeathSlap said:
Hell, no. Scary lunatics. Very useful lunatics, but lunatics.
Soldier: you give him a helmet, a rifle, a mug and some ammo and send him and a thousand of his mates to fight somewhere, and promise to send food and ammo. They do this.
Para: you give him a big silk bedsheet on a lot of string, a helmet, a rifle, a mug, some food and a lot of ammo and send him and fifty of his mates to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft behind enemy lines, take over a bridge and the surrounding countryside and hold onto it until the rest of the army can get there. They do this.
Marine: see "Para" above, but he uses a rubber dinghy instead of a parachute.
SAS: you give him a parachute, all his clothes, a rifle, a pistol, ten grenades, 25kg of high explosives, a kilometre of twin wire, a tool kit, maps, a compass, a knife, another knife, a couple of rounds for the rocket launcher, a length of ammo belt for the machine gun, batteries, night-vision gear, a rocket launcher or machine gun, a radio, more batteries, lots of food and water, some cash in various currencies for the local farmers' market, an axe and some other stuff and send him and seven of his mates to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft so far behind enemy lines the enemy are drunk, grab their gear, hide the parachutes and get out of there before anyone shows up to investigate, hike 20 miles through the mountains, blow up an experimental aircraft development facility, trek another 30 miles through more mountains, sneak past the enemy airfield, sneak to the beach 10 miles past that, steal boats, row out to sea and hope the submarine can find them to pick them up. After they've gone, you find they've broken into the armoury and stolen an extra 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 100kg of HE, because they're not going to pass that close to an enemy airfield without stopping to blow it up on the way.
Oh, yes. The fitter you are before you join, the better. Basic Training (they can call it what they like) consists of a lot of cleaning, polishing and ironing, a lot of lessons, a lot of physical exercise, a lot of drill, a lot of physical training, a lot of being told you're not doing well enough (they have to tell you this) and a lot of physical exercise plus a tiny little bit of sleep.Gaiseric said:
Being physically fit will make it all a lot easier to handle and mean you are less knackered in the lessons, and thus more likely to actually be attending the lesson, rather than sitting there with your eyes open, drawing squiggles down your notebook's pages with no idea at all what's going on.
For similar reasons, take up orienteering, hillwalking and shooting and learn first aid before you join.
The army also tends to view people's worth as proportional to their run speed.
L98A1 has a lot going for it, but also a lot of ways it could be improved. Browning 9mm's pretty good too, and the Colt .45 1911 is the same gun in a calibre that gives you fewer rounds per magazine. Weapons actually issued to me? L86, the LSW. For some reason, I shoot better with heavier rifles.
Almost any general-issue rifle in assault rifle calibres is, really.Dectomax said:
The bullpup design gives a longer barrel in a shorter weapon, which has advantages. One thing I didn't like about it was the balance. I learned on long rifles like the SMLE, and with those you hold the weapon in your left hand, put the butt against your right shoulder and see what angle's most comfortable, lie down with it still at that angle and pointing at the target, put your right hand on it and then adjust your position until it's properly on-target. With the L85, the balance point is above your right thumb, so you're holding the weapon up with your right hand not your left, and using your left to work the bolt. The other thing I didn't like was the sight rail. Take off the top cover over the gas parts and extend that sight rail forwards six inches and an L98A1 will be a usable rifle. As it is, even with the sights as far forwards as they go, unless you hold it pointing in a line from your right hip through your right shoulder and away, the rear sight will come back and smash a groove into the bone behind your eyebrow.
Depends which part you're in. Signals (call centres, switchboards and the police radio) and Intelligence (creepy, spooky, scary people) get quite a few, as do the medical trades, but the engineers (gorilla with a big spanner), the RMP (thugs, disciplined, drunken squaddies for the subduing of) and the artillery (the people who already have Bigger Guns) tend to be the large, imposing, muscular men and the infantry are still all-male because testosterone-filled young men become even more idiotic around women and it's hard enough to keep control in a firefight without that.Vault101 said:
I've heard it said that as a woman in the army you're either a dyke or a slut. This is probably because too many squaddies consider themselves sexually irresistible to straight women.
If you're interested in a technical side of the army, try joining the Signal Corps (military communications). I can only speak from my experience in the Canadian Forces but the Signallers can do anything from programming tactical networks to humping radios on their backs on the frontlines.Chaza said:
Are you cadet or serving? The L98 is the cadet rifle, so I'll pick that ( for now )Shoqiyqa said:
You'll go far mate, you remember this better than I do! I was terrible at maintenance...the amount of times I was beasted for the condition of my rifle in RT!
You want to know the really {tone_bitterness}{tone_sarcasm}funny{/tone} part? I don't know. The legal system's got one standard when they're trying someone for murder, the RAF's got another when they're awarding "kills" to pilots in The Battle Of Britain, different online games have different ways of tracking it and I couldn't give you my bodycount by any of those standards.tthor said:
Isn't that {tone_bitterness}{tone_sarcasm}fun{/tone}?
Athol said:
Will the marines allow non-americans to join?
Im considering re-enlisting into the army and im not going back to the russian army.
Im considering re-enlisting into the army and im not going back to the russian army.
