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What do you think about the US Secret Service?
Anyone have some insight on what a day working as a special agent assigned to investigations would be like?
Protective detail, especially the Presidential detail looks interesting. However it seems like you would never see any action because who the hell is going to try to kill a protectee?
Even if someone did try it would probably be a once in a career incident.
Would you work for the USSS? What about some other federal agency, excluding the ATF of course...
12 hour days in an office trying to catch counterfeiters
>>27804372
>physically protecting the worst scum in the world
Only the ATF is worse.
>>27804372
my friend has a clearance doing stuff, he says the former secret service people literally can't read.
Which nugget is the best nugget?
Yes I'm from britbongistan
http://m.gunstar.co.uk/Mosin-Nagant/I/All-Guns-for-sale?redirm=1
One without a bayonet that's for sure, because you can't have a fucking knife.
>>27804166
>best nugget
this is a trick question, the answer is none.
well played op.
>>27804166
the one you can actually fire
Post CCW, self defense in action, green text, videos, pictures, all welcome. Did you ever pull your gun out ready to defend yourself? Did you ever engage in a firefight? What happened? This is geared towards civilians.
No bad things ever happen to you /k/?
>>27804754
https://youtu.be/5bsAMSQ13bY
I'm trying to tell my friend that massed airborne invasions rarely ever work or nearly always end in heavy casualties, the Germans got massacred at Crete in WW2 and even the airborne landings during Operation Overlord were almost a disaster.
So my question is this, would it be possible for the US to mount a purely airborne invasion of say the UK using only airdrops by parachute trained troops as a means of insertion?
>>27804015
Operation Northern Delay.
kek
Crete was a disaster because of poor intelligence and planning, not because airborne invasions don't work
That said, there's a very small number of armored vehicles that can be dropped via parachute, and MBTs aren't one of them.
>>27804015
Gliders are the way to go.
I designed this tank for the US military, do you think they'll accept it? Also /THG/ since it doesn't seem to exist
No spaced armour. It's shit.
Now draw the internals.
There's no plow
What's /k/'s opinion of pic related? I've been thinking about getting one to keep in my bug out bag, and I've heard mixed reviews.
>>27803767
The new ones are way better than the old ones, .22 is gay, they should do a redesign and make it a 9mm, add a compass, small flashlight, Mora style knife and a ferro rod to the butt storage then it would be a true survival weapon.
>>27803767
jesus, should we sticky this rifle? it seems like a new thread pops up every few days, on average.
>>27803767
Looks as though it'd be good for a bug out kit. See if there are any videos up on youtube or something to see how it preforms before you buy it.
Is there any weapon more fucked up than project pluto?
Most of you know for those that don't:
>nuclear powered jet goes mach 3
>can fly for months
>self guides at low altitude, drops nuclear bombs
>Doesn't stop there.
>continues to circle at mach 3, at low altitude, creating a destructing shock wave as it circles... for months.
>Can also be programmed to fly over several cities.
>The whole time the engine is spewing radioactive waste.
Is there anything with more of a "fuck you" quality about it?
The longest test they did with they Tory-!!C engine was only 5 minutes long.
Flying around for months seems like a little bit of a stretch.
The shockwave wouldn't be too destructive, but the radiation would be.
>>27803720
The shockwave would be painful and annoying
>>27803736
I'd worry more about the nukes and unshielded nuclear reactor.
Nuclear propulsion is a silly thing.
Okay, /k/, help me out. I want to be an operator. This thread isn't necessarily about that however. This thread is about narrowing down my choices.
So, of the following Special Operations MOS/Rates, which do you guys think is the most elite, the most badass, or whatever. And why?
Army:
Rangers
Special Forces
Navy:
SEALs
Marines:
MARSOC
Recon
(MARSOC isn't possible to get into entry-level, or even early in one's career so I'm iffy on even considering it)
Air Force:
PJ
CCT
SOWT
For the life of me I cannot find any information on CCTs or SOWT beyond just the basic job description, so any and all information on that would be greatly appreciated.
>which is the coolest guize
Want to know how I know you're not cut out for special operations?
Tell me about how you're going to get in shape in basic training.
>>27803662
It's not the "coolest", it's which is the most rewarding. I can google just about any of the jobs and find some snippet about what they do or some badass operation they were involved in. It's not a matter of which is "cooler".
I want to make a career of it, and I don't want to get through a pipeline, start doing my work and realize "Fuck, this is not at all what I envisioned".
As far as "getting in shape goes", I'm in good shape now, well enough to pass all entry level requirements for all SOF schools/selections. And my ASVAB scores qualify me for all as well. I'll obviously take time to focus on getting into better shape, sure, like improving my run time.
I'm 22 years old, and an office job isn't for me. I think I owe it to myself to try something new.
>>27803704
>Entry level requirements
>Muh run
When I can kick you out of bed at 2 AM and you can shit out a 325 out of 300 on an APFT, come back.
Is it considered a cushy job? All the embassies I've visited have had private contractor security outside and at the gates, what do the enlisted guards inside do?
Get captured or murdered by brown people typically.
Help the squishy diplomats lift heavy documents when comes time to burn it all, reenact a zombie movie with brown people.
wait for their chance to fight off hoards of brown people
>Vz. 58 looks like AK
>CZ 82 looks like Makarov
Any more guns those crazy Czechs visually copied?
Did ny other countries or companies engage in this kind of mimicry?
It's not mimicry. The soviets mandated the Czechs build weapons compatible with their service weapons. The Czechs made their versions as a sort of middle finger to the Soviets.
>>27803328
I didn't mean it in a bad way.
>>27803292
>weapons of the same era, purpose, bloc, design school and caliber look vaguely alike
>OMG THEYS COPIED IT
The 58 and AK and the 82 and Mak have nothing in common except the round and the fact both pairs work generally the same (gas operated select fire rifle, straight blowback pistol).
How do you become a SWAT?
1) be a cop
2) dont be bad
>>27803265
1. be willing to murder people for stupid drug laws
>Shoot first
>Ask questions later
Questions like "was he even armed?" , "it's this the right house?"
Wouldn't using this break your wrist? I'm not a gun enthusiast so I don't actually know.
>>27803120
Mop. It rocks your socks but its not a wrist breaker.
>>27803120
>Implying you have to know about guns, to also know about physics
If it would break your wrists why would people use it in the first place? I bit the bait...
Christ
What does /k/ use for home defense?
>>27802975
AR-15.
17 rounds 94gr Wolf WPA
Bowie Knife.
I don't want to be rude and wake the neighbors.
/k/, what do you think about the MSF hospital bombing? I can't ask /pol/ because they're clueless about military stuff.
I usually see these friendly fire incidents as being down to trigger happy pilots or wrong coordinates but there seems to be something different about this.
Why did it take 30 minutes after a distress call was made for them to cease fire? Why were they claiming that the hospital was bombed on the word of Afghan FAC, then changed the story and said it was actually on the initiative of the AC-130 crew? If the air force was responding to troops under fire would they usually send up an AC-130?
>>27802809
It was an unfortunate accident and nothing more. The crew onboard the aircraft sure as shit didn't realize they were shooting a hospital, and odds are if they even knew there was one in the town, they thought it was the one further away from the combat zone that got out unscathed.
The fact that it only took 30 minutes for the distress call to cause a ceasefire tells us one of two things
>the chain of command is impossibly efficient to get an order through that fast
Or more likely
>they ran out of things to shoot at after 30 minutes
The changing stories were probably a mix of people misremembering what happened and someone trying to cover their asses.
And an AC-130 was sent up because they're great for operations like that. It's like having an artillery battery that can loiter above the battlefield far longer than any regular strike aircraft can. The incident in question was less of a "shit we need CAS as fast as possible" and more of a "we need something to support an assault on this town"
Remember - as much as the media and MSF are trying to portray this as another My Lai, this is nothing of the sort. It's an unfortunate accident, and, while we should be owning up to it and trying to make amends, it doesn't deserve to be sensationalized like MSF is doing.
The real story that you're not going to hear is
>Airstrike was intentional to kill Big Boss
>MSF was played like a damn fiddle
They were played like a damn fiddle
I want to ship an AR-15 to myself at an address in another state (VA to FL). Has anyone done this before? Is it as simple as packaging my rifle in bubble wrap and a box, printing out a UPS shipping label and dropping it off at a UPS store? It is going to my family's vacation condo in an apartment complex, so it would sit at the reception desk for a few days until I fly down for vacation. I would prefer not to go through the hassle and expense of shipping it to a local FFL if possible, but I definitely do not want to break any laws.
ATF website states:
>May I lawfully ship a firearm to myself in a different State?
>Any person may ship a firearm to himself or herself in the care of another person in the State where he or she intends to hunt or engage in any other lawful activity. The package should be addressed to the owner “in the care of” the out-of-State resident. Upon reaching its destination, persons other than the owner must not open the package or take possession of the firearm.
The ups store can't ship firearms or anything remotely firearm related. Not even stocks, grips, bipods etc. Take it to a customer center/distribution center.
Source: I work in a ups store.
Oh, also, UPS will only ship to licensed dealers/manufacturers/collectors. You're fucked bud, the whole system is fucked.
>>27803024
how come my package from psa always come through ups then?
