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Freedom aint free edition
>IRC Channel
>implying anyone uses IRC
#MEG on Freenode
If you're on mobile look up AndroIRC for the app. Any questions, ask in the thread to get you set up.
Resources:
>Armyranger.con
For Ranger info, obviously.
>Shadowspear.com
All around SOF website. Great info and run by former/active members of every SOF unit. Mentor program. Also has forums for international SOF.
>Professionalsoldiers.com
For...
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>>28537512
It's really hard to answer that question, because there's lots of different SOF units and there are some differences between them.
For example, if you're in a special mission unit, you don't really play by Army rules at all, and your performance evaluations are classified. Those types of units do their promotion boards in house, completely separate from normal Army promotions, and I don't know what their promotion rates are like.
More "normal"...
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>>28538115
What opportunity/purpose does an officer interested in SOF have?
does the Navy have an equivalent to CI Agent?
Favourite varmint caliber and why?
>>28536875
5.56, cheap and effective.
Hornady 55 gr v-max
Are main battle tanks now obsolete?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_battle_tank#Cold_War
>The United States's experience in the Vietnam War contributed to the idea among army leadership that the role of the main battle tank could be fulfilled by attack helicopters. During the Vietnam War, helicopters and missiles competed with MBTs for research money.
>Though the Persian Gulf War reaffirmed the role of main battle tanks, MBTs were outperformed by the attack helicopter. Other strategists considered...
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>>28530119
You won't be asking that if there's a line of them parked in an open field while supported by AAA and artillery, OP.
They work just fine when supported. The Russians even used them in urban areas in Afghanistan before Drozd came about. I don't remember the exact details of the vignette, but it's in "Bear Went Over The Mountain" if you want to read about it.
The author said something along the lines like "if it is stupid and it works, it is not stupid."
There will always been a need for MBTs, how they will look 20 years in the future i dont think many can say accurately, the same goes for attack helicopters.
The only reason i wouldnt say that attack helis will replace mbts is how fragile and maintenance heavy helis are
Helicopters cannot take or hold ground. Tanks can.
Its essentially the same reason as to why you need an army to invade and conquer territories. An Air Force can do a great job of supporting an invasion or defending against one. But to own real estate, you need boots and treads on the ground.
How would you fight a war against an army like this?
Note : Tanks/Missiles/Planes/Artillery is not an acceptable answer for the same reason that one line answers get you half a mark at best in high school.
>>28523451
Tanks/Missiles/Planes/Artillery.
Next question please.
>>28523462
you trying to be funny kid?
what movie is this? 80ies Soviet army vs aliums?
Also fight them just like they do in that clip.
No living thing can stand up to 20mm+ cannon fire
I'm back from the 5th dimension edition.
> When is it?
January 30th - 31st.
> Where is it?
Roughly in the middle of California near Fresno, along I-5. There are currently carpools being organized departing from the Bay Area and Orange County. Our Slack channel has the details.
> How do I get involved?
E-mail [email protected] to join our slack channel. There you'll get access to the carpool spreadsheet and more information.
> What do I bring?
Food and camping supplies to sustain you for as long as you intend to stay, the meet will last from Saturday morning to Sunday evening.
You are not required to bring your own firearms, myself and some others are bringing rifles and ammunition for those who don't own their own and wish to join the fun.
Unfortunately we can't bring clays around this time, lead and tannerite are both fine.
I'd like people to bring tables, shade, and targets as these are things I can't personally supply for everybody, we have a spreadsheet floating around for who-brings-what.
>Near Fresno
Finally a meetup I can actually go to
Since my old computer was spirited away somewhere, I lost all my meetup pasta and info. I can get the email list back, but I can't recover all the photos of old meetups. Post em if you got em.
>>28507272
I don't have any photos, but OC Kommando checking in!
>I still have seats to offer
Howdy partners,
I'm nobody special, but I thought it would be cool to have a USA veteran thread.
Hell, any nationality. Post here.
God bless.
3rd id here OIF V vet here, class of 07-08. Sledgehammer!
>>28549745
How'd you get the V device partner?
Glorified welfare queen reporting sir!
Alright /k/, you know the drill. How do you resolve this situation?
Wait it out, he's going to be covered and shit, piss and vomit after a few minutes
Flashbang in the cradle
>>28545482
Shot placement counts.
dear /k/,
why the fuck is everyone buying .22lr guns and ammo?
have a wallpaper in return
A guy and his son (who was about 16-17) bought 1000 rounds today, and I asked them if they were going shooting soon,and they replied "stocking up". Why the fuck would you stock up .22lr?
>>28545324
yea man i have an uncle sitting on like 3000 rounds. i cant for the life of me figure it out
>>28545294
a lot of people stockpile .22lr because
>its cheap and lets you say 'ive got 10k rounds of ammo
>its moderately versatile
>muh ricochet for vital organs
and
>i can't handle the recoil or cost of 5.56 guns/ammo
Should I get a USP in 9mm?
>>28545256
>yeah they're awesome
>no they suck
there you go OP. every response you'll get will be some variation of these. Why dont you go rent and shoot one you faggot
Do you want a Glock, but you're the kind of person that says "I hate Glocks" for no reason other than "they're ugly"
If yes, then it's perfect for you.
>>28545305
>implying the USP is better looking
Take the Battle of Kursk for example, the German offensive and Soviet counter offensive lasted 50 days altogether.
In that period the losses for both sides are:
Germany
>252,182 casualties of all types
>1,083 tanks destroyed
Russia
>1,040,847 casualties of all types
>7,864 tanks destroyed
Altogether we have:
>1,293,029 KIA/WIA/MIA
>8,947 tanks destroyed
The...
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>>28545000
Why were the Russian casualties so much higher when they were defending?
>>28545009
>soviet counter-offensive
We could use those men in europe right now.
What's the second-best country after the US with regards to gun laws/access and why?
Switzerland? New Zealand? Northern Ireland?
Switzerland.
>>28544380
Kurdistan :^)
Czech Republic is way up there. Canada is roughly on par with NZ (each country has good and bad). France is decent in many ways.
>9mm is too small
>.45 ACP is too slow
>.40 S&W is the worst of both
What's an actual good pistol cartridge?
>>28543904
any of the above, most pistol calibers are almost identical
a rifle
>>28543904
.22lr
.357
.38 Super
Last thread fell off
>>28501914
G3, SCAR, M1A, FAL, AR10, HK417, etc. etc.
What's the best mod you've made to your battle rifle?
IN
Geissele trigger was probably the biggest bang-for-the-buck for the SCAR. I didn't even get a free one and I'd pay for it all over again.
>>28543633
I missed out on the free one as well. Is it that much better than factory?
>>28543657
IMO definitely. I'd get the trigger before I got an optic if I got another SCAR desu.
Who would win? 100 Rangers vs 100 Gurkhas
fucking mureens
French Foreign Legion
>>28542494
>Gurkhas
Gurkhas, no contest. Pound-for-pound they're stronger, faster, and transfer heat better. Plus, they grew up alpining in the Himalayas, not eating cheezy poofs and playing x-box.
R I P
Happy trails, Hans.
:'(
>>28541960
Yippy kai yay you motherfucker.
Maybe you be showered in all the bearer bonds in heaven.
I thought he's been dead for 28 years
