Jay
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eleven bravo wrote:

Ive seen too many dead grunts to let that comment slide.
I've seen too many dead MP's. I was attached to a national guard MP battalion whose job was essentially to drive the roads of Baghdad looking for IEDs. They had 50 KIA by the time I got there and about 1 per week from then on. I went to too many memorial ceremonies
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The only time Ive seen something happen to an MP was when it was a hit and run by Iraqi trash truck.  I had to be the qrf
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Jay
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eleven bravo wrote:

The only time Ive seen something happen to an MP was when it was a hit and run by Iraqi trash truck.  I had to be the qrf
Where I was, "Sheriff" was always an MP unit tasked with clearing the roads three or four times a day and being the QRF. The unit I was with also had the task of training up Iraqi police and going on patrol with them. The Iraqis would run at the first sign of danger and/or sell their uniform/weapons.
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-Frederick Bastiat
11 Bravo
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so what did you do exactly
Jay
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11 Bravo wrote:

so what did you do exactly
Commo. Spent a month on convoy escort duty but other than that played a lot of video games and dodged mortars and rockets on FOBs, Camp Victory and the Green Zone.
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-Frederick Bastiat
Ridir
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How is it that the DST is always attacking people. So no I didn't spend 7 months in a dirt hole in Iraq. I'm not a pog. But what I was talking about addressing the entire post, was actually the entire paragraph, sorry for the misunderstanding.

If the USMC can sell MCRD and make a profit it might be beneficial to do so.  It will be more efficient to have all the training under one roof. So let's go ahead and condense the entire Marine Corps to one base while we're at it. Just for the sake of it we'll put the Marines on the Pacific Coast and for efficiency sake put all of the Army on the east coast in one base. And we'll give the Navy two bases, I know it's not fair, but, they really should have one on either coast. But we'll only have one ship yard, no matter that it will cut our production down too. Never mind the economical impact this will have on the surrounding areas because now the cost is so much less for the defense budget we will offset that impact.

As for several thousand extra rounds in Ft. Hood. Yes it did happen, and I received several messages from a friend of mine while I was there training without 5.56 at the range, though we managed to supply about 3000 rounds of .308, that they burned off 600 rounds of SAW ammo just to get use to firing from different positions. Standing, kneeling and prone. For a POG unit, he's NBC. Now you tell me that it simply didn't happen.

No the life of every Marine is not extremely difficult as many make it out to be. In fact getting new gear is a lot quicker and easier than it use to be. And some of the Army's units I'm sure have had difficulty getting supplies, the grass is usually greener on the other side of the fence it seems.

As to the blue on blue fire, there are a large amount of reports of Army on Army, Marine on Army, Army on Marine, Marine on Marine, Air Force on both, etc. etc. Proper communication and training helps avoid much of it, but not all. There are examples of reservist and pogs lighting up towns because they thought it was the best way to defend themselves. And of officers having the infantrymen shoot first ask questions later because they wanted to seem fierce. It happens in all branches so take your ignorance and hatred and breed it elsewhere.
Jay
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Ridir wrote:

How is it that the DST is always attacking people. So no I didn't spend 7 months in a dirt hole in Iraq. I'm not a pog. But what I was talking about addressing the entire post, was actually the entire paragraph, sorry for the misunderstanding.

If the USMC can sell MCRD and make a profit it might be beneficial to do so.  It will be more efficient to have all the training under one roof. So let's go ahead and condense the entire Marine Corps to one base while we're at it. Just for the sake of it we'll put the Marines on the Pacific Coast and for efficiency sake put all of the Army on the east coast in one base. And we'll give the Navy two bases, I know it's not fair, but, they really should have one on either coast. But we'll only have one ship yard, no matter that it will cut our production down too. Never mind the economical impact this will have on the surrounding areas because now the cost is so much less for the defense budget we will offset that impact.

As for several thousand extra rounds in Ft. Hood. Yes it did happen, and I received several messages from a friend of mine while I was there training without 5.56 at the range, though we managed to supply about 3000 rounds of .308, that they burned off 600 rounds of SAW ammo just to get use to firing from different positions. Standing, kneeling and prone. For a POG unit, he's NBC. Now you tell me that it simply didn't happen.

No the life of every Marine is not extremely difficult as many make it out to be. In fact getting new gear is a lot quicker and easier than it use to be. And some of the Army's units I'm sure have had difficulty getting supplies, the grass is usually greener on the other side of the fence it seems.

As to the blue on blue fire, there are a large amount of reports of Army on Army, Marine on Army, Army on Marine, Marine on Marine, Air Force on both, etc. etc. Proper communication and training helps avoid much of it, but not all. There are examples of reservist and pogs lighting up towns because they thought it was the best way to defend themselves. And of officers having the infantrymen shoot first ask questions later because they wanted to seem fierce. It happens in all branches so take your ignorance and hatred and breed it elsewhere.
No combat deployment? And you're bitching about the ammo you didn't get to expend? Cry more. They gave me and my saw 1000 rounds to blow off in the kuwaiti desert. Guess you should've performed real service.
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-Frederick Bastiat
RAIMIUS
You with the face!
+244|6955|US
This e-penis contest is going nowhere.

We all signed on the dotted line to do something valuable for the country.  Does it really matter if one of you shot more ammo?
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I get through ~5-10,000 rnds a year.

Do I win? (At this I mean)
Fuck Israel
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no
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Oh well.
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RAIMIUS wrote:

This e-penis contest is going nowhere.

We all signed on the dotted line to do something valuable for the country.  Does it really matter if one of you shot more ammo?
shut up zoomie
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Ridir
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No combat deployment because I was in a commissioning program and yes it's my fault for not reading the fine print and seeing that it made me not able to go on a combat deployment. However the training I was talking about was a pre-deployment training for my unit. So yes I am bitching about it because they sent a Bn over with shit for training.

And once again you read one thing and pick it out. Don't even go through the entire post to debate the topic at hand. Just have to stroke your  e-dick to improve your self worth.  My guess is your response will be something about officers and how useless they are.
Ridir
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And also in response to OP. The Marines are also cutting their AD force by roughly 20,000.
eleven bravo
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did you get commissioned?
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1stSFOD-Delta wrote:

i liek mre's
me 2!!
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eleven bravo
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youve never had to eat em for a year
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FatherTed
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no but i did have a chocolate pudding one and that was very nice dennis
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also lots of tea
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tea is for the gays.  and marines
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FatherTed
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the raf pilot duders i did some work experience with spent most of their time drinking tea and smoking. then they flew up to scotland to drop bombs on some fields. then came back and drank tea

seriously they should bomb scotland a little more
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also

wiki wrote:

Like every British tank since the Centurion, and most other British AFVs, Challenger 2 contains a boiling vessel (BV) also known as a kettle or bivvie for water which can be used to brew tea, produce other hot beverages and heat boil-in-the-bag meals contained in ration packs.[8] This BV requirement is general for armoured vehicles of the British Armed Forces, and is almost unique to the armed forces of the UK.
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we have that in bradleys too.  call em coffee maker/mre heaters
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um its called a tea maker fyi maybe you should tell someone
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