i disagree
Baba Booey
Baba Booey
Well I don't give a shit what anybody here thinks.
This is what I'll look like in under a year if things go as they should.
There's nothing I'd rather do than serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. haters gonna hate
Lets get back on topic.
So, does the Bradley still use the TOW anti-tank system or do they have something more modern? Also, I've been trying to find the effective range of the FMG-148 Javelin as I thought it would be a good replacement. The TOW can fire 3700m.
This is what I'll look like in under a year if things go as they should.
There's nothing I'd rather do than serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. haters gonna hate
Lets get back on topic.
So, does the Bradley still use the TOW anti-tank system or do they have something more modern? Also, I've been trying to find the effective range of the FMG-148 Javelin as I thought it would be a good replacement. The TOW can fire 3700m.
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shifty there is something really wrong with you
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Wikipedia said 2500m. and if the military thought it was a good replacement..wouldnt they have replaced it already?
I'm asking if they did replace it or not.
The TOW has many limitations. It cannot be fired on the move, it cannot be fired over any size body of water, it cannot attack from a top-down angle, etc. The Javelin may have a shorter effective range by 1200m but I think it's a good trade off. Considering we aren't facing any modern tanks on the battlefield though I'm all for using up all the TOWs in storage.
The TOW has many limitations. It cannot be fired on the move, it cannot be fired over any size body of water, it cannot attack from a top-down angle, etc. The Javelin may have a shorter effective range by 1200m but I think it's a good trade off. Considering we aren't facing any modern tanks on the battlefield though I'm all for using up all the TOWs in storage.
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shifty no teenager should worry or concern themselves with these things. what the fuck is actually wrong with you that you fetishize and fantasize so much over the military and its hardware? what sort of weird freudian neurosis is this? it's like you really dig this stuff, in both an obsessive-compulsive and sexual-erotic way. how the hell does a kid with a backwards upbringing in switzerland, that most pussily-pacific of european states, end up having weekly wet-dreams over wearing desert-camo and firing big well-oiled guns?
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>insinuating you will gain more than 5 pounds of muscle mass on your twig figure-Sh1fty- wrote:
Well I don't give a shit what anybody here thinks.
This is what I'll look like in under a year if things go as they should.
hahaha truePoseidon wrote:
>insinuating you will gain more than 5 pounds of muscle mass on your twig figure-Sh1fty- wrote:
Well I don't give a shit what anybody here thinks.
This is what I'll look like in under a year if things go as they should.
I've actually gained 2lbs since I started PT Been doing so many freaking crunches I'm seeing the general outline of a six pack
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when you start physical training/dieting right, you'll always see an initial spike in muscle/weight gain. then it evens out and the real weight/muscle training begins. your quest will be long and arduous, noble knight shifty.
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dang it
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I hope you like it. Sign up for the least amount of time possible. If you like it, reenlist, if you don't you won't get stuck doing something you don't want to do.-Sh1fty- wrote:
Well I don't give a shit what anybody here thinks.
This is what I'll look like in under a year if things go as they should.
There's nothing I'd rather do than serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. haters gonna hate
Lets get back on topic.
So, does the Bradley still use the TOW anti-tank system or do they have something more modern? Also, I've been trying to find the effective range of the FMG-148 Javelin as I thought it would be a good replacement. The TOW can fire 3700m.
Baba Booey
hes not gonna join
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Don't. Do something more respectable with your life. Like a drug dealer, stock broker, gay porn star, etc etc.
Baba Booey
theres only 1 of those things shifty could do
nah, i don't think he could even be a gay porn star
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
not even a twink
i just wanna know on the individual/familial/societal level what it is nowadays that inculcates young children with such a veneration and glorification of the military. this forum has several members that have already reached 'armchair general' status before the age of 16, having 'hit the books' on wikipedia and many other WALT websites. what motivates and drives this? i can safely say that in no point in my childhood or teenage years did i ever come under the glamorous impress of militarism. so what gives for shifty? some guy raised in a pious christian pastoral background in quaint little switzerland. why so much love for the usmc? i don't get it.
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cod and generation kill.Uzique wrote:
i just wanna know on the individual/familial/societal level what it is nowadays that inculcates young children with such a veneration and glorification of the military. this forum has several members that have already reached 'armchair general' status before the age of 16, having 'hit the books' on wikipedia and many other WALT websites. what motivates and drives this? i can safely say that in no point in my childhood or teenage years did i ever come under the glamorous impress of militarism. so what gives for shifty? some guy raised in a pious christian pastoral background in quaint little switzerland. why so much love for the usmc? i don't get it.
Growing up I was always playing war or drawing various battles. All my friends did. It was just a boy thing I guess. At twelve or thirteenish war/military lost out to chasing girls and playing sports.
Personally, I was raised listening to war stories and reading a lot of military history. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII and my father served in Vietnam so there were a lot of stories to go around. I also had a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships in my bedroom along with little plastic soldiers.Uzique wrote:
i just wanna know on the individual/familial/societal level what it is nowadays that inculcates young children with such a veneration and glorification of the military. this forum has several members that have already reached 'armchair general' status before the age of 16, having 'hit the books' on wikipedia and many other WALT websites. what motivates and drives this? i can safely say that in no point in my childhood or teenage years did i ever come under the glamorous impress of militarism. so what gives for shifty? some guy raised in a pious christian pastoral background in quaint little switzerland. why so much love for the usmc? i don't get it.
You had no exposure to the military so it had no impact on you. I don't know why you continuously expect people to be exactly like you. He digs the military. Get over it.
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-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
I don't think digs is the right word
Films mostly, at least for me it was.Uzique wrote:
i just wanna know on the individual/familial/societal level what it is nowadays that inculcates young children with such a veneration and glorification of the military. this forum has several members that have already reached 'armchair general' status before the age of 16, having 'hit the books' on wikipedia and many other WALT websites. what motivates and drives this? i can safely say that in no point in my childhood or teenage years did i ever come under the glamorous impress of militarism. so what gives for shifty? some guy raised in a pious christian pastoral background in quaint little switzerland. why so much love for the usmc? i don't get it.
both my grandparents fought in ww2. one of my grandparents served in ww1 as well as ww2. my only cousin is in the royal marines, and he's 1 1/2 years younger than me. we both grew up together and played a lot together but neither of us were army geeks when we played as kids, so i don't buy that. furthermore my school is probably one of the most famous in england for its military tradition[/color], where a pretty sizeable chunk of the students are from very old officer-class military families and go on to sandhurst to continue the family game ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham_College#Victoria_Crosses_won_by_Old_Cheltonians]14 victoria crosses have been awarded to old cheltenonians, and we are one of the only schools in england to have our own military colours). so what the fuck are you talking about i've had "no exposure to the military"? how can you say that, when you evidently don't know anything about my background? lol what a load of bollocks.
all i'm questioning is the romanticizing and hollywood-ification of the military that shifty showcases. it's clear that his ideal-dream vision of the military does not coincide in any way with the actual reality of military life-- let alone war and the battlefield. he's all about wikipedia-stats of vehicles and how damn good a well-pressed camo uniform looks like. a total walter mitty. except where that stereotype was once populated by sad 45-year old greying has-beens, now (as seen on bf2s) it's a new bunch of 14 year old kids that get off on fantasizing over this shit. i'm confused as to why. i played call of duty and fps games religiously through my teen years but i loved them because they were games, and provided a platform to kick other people's asses at a game. at no point did i think it would be cool to be involved in the siege of stalingrad because i sunk 150 hours into the map in a multiplayer game. does. not. compute.
all i'm questioning is the romanticizing and hollywood-ification of the military that shifty showcases. it's clear that his ideal-dream vision of the military does not coincide in any way with the actual reality of military life-- let alone war and the battlefield. he's all about wikipedia-stats of vehicles and how damn good a well-pressed camo uniform looks like. a total walter mitty. except where that stereotype was once populated by sad 45-year old greying has-beens, now (as seen on bf2s) it's a new bunch of 14 year old kids that get off on fantasizing over this shit. i'm confused as to why. i played call of duty and fps games religiously through my teen years but i loved them because they were games, and provided a platform to kick other people's asses at a game. at no point did i think it would be cool to be involved in the siege of stalingrad because i sunk 150 hours into the map in a multiplayer game. does. not. compute.
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my father fought dirty commie sandinistas and lost
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