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Hey guys,
I'm hoping to go to Army OCS. I've been speaking with a recruiter and things were looking good, I had great grades in college, a steady career since, solid PFT, etc.
But I found out that getting a combat arms MOS if youu go civilian to OCS is damn near next to impossible. Apparently those all get sucked up by the West Pointers and ROTC studs before going to the OCS grads.
I then heard that if you want a combat-arms related job, National Guard was the way to go. There's a MUCH better chance you'll have that open up as an option for you vs going Active.
Anyone have any experience in the matter? I don't mind my civilian career, so to me, it seems like being combat arms in the Guard is better than getting stuck with a miserable MOS I hate while Active.
do it
>>27790725
Which one?
Over the centuries, we've seen child soldiers used for almost every major conflict time and time again. Because of the state of emergency or for political reasons, many children are drafted into the military and forced to fight against their will. Multiple pacts have tried to keep this from happening, but it is almost hopeless to stop children from being drafted or recruited in the military worldwide.
Even young girls aren't protected. The League of German Girls trained girls minimal fighting techniques for example, while their primary role was literally to produce pure, aryan baby boys. In other parts of the world, young boys and girls are given tasks from loading ammunition to fighting on the front lines.
What does /k/ think of using children as soldiers? Would /k/ shoot a child given a gun? Alternatively, if your commander told you to take no prisoners, and you saw children surrendering, what would you do then?
Fuck 'em
>>27790561
Faggot, I'm gonna put my barrel up your ass and pull the trigger till it goes click
>>27790561
Figuratively or literally?
>>27790568
That can be taken one of two ways honestly.
It's that time again folks
>The Russians have parachuted out of commercial airliners into your town or city
>The local school was hit first, pretty sure the black history teacher was the first casualty
>Now they are marching on your street killing any military aged male
What song begins softly before roaring into a thundering accompaniment to your ambush?
>This is the song you die to as Russian paratroopers pile up in your street.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZexg8sxyk
>>27790527
That's a fucking terrible choice for last stand music.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw&app=desktop
>>27790527
>Die the way I lived
>Listening to Scatman
https://youtu.be/y6oXW_YiV6g
>>27790569
Fine, I choose
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjJ7KCBykVU
At full fucking volume, I mean loud enough to drown out PKM fire, for the battle, then
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ
To die to after I run out of ammo or they call in someone with a Shmel.
I like Opinels - a lot. They are not only cheap but reliable and great for virtually everything during a day, that requires a sharp blade (aside from self-defense but that should be clear).
Since the Opinels are also pretty easy to modify, there are myrriad ways to make these knifes very unique, according to each own's skills, tools.
So this thread's primary task is to collect and discuss Opinel mods, mod techniques and pictures of modified Opinels.
Other modified knifes are very welcome too - but If you post them, at least provide some information on what exactly you modified - not everybody knows the factory-new look of every knife.
FYI: I just trip in this thread for information purposes and not because I want to be an edgy tripfag.
In case you dont really know what an OPinel is:
Joseph Opinel began making knives in 1890 in Savoie, France as a simple working man's or peasant's knife. It proved popular with the local farmers, herdsmen, and paysans-vignerons (peasant winemakers) of the area. In 1897, a series of twelve sizes, numbered 1 to 12, was developed. From 1901–1903, Joseph Opinel built his first factory in Pont de Gévoudaz and produced a machine for mass production of the knife's wooden handles.
The company hired peddlers to sell the knives and opened a small shop near the Chambéry railway junction, where the knives became popular with PLM railroad workers, who in turn spread word of the brand throughout France.By 1909, Opinel had registered his first trademark for the Opinel knife, choosing the main couronnée ('crowned hand") as his emblem.A few years later Opinel annual sales were in the hundreds of thousands, and by the start of World War II as many as 20 million knives had been sold.
The Opinel Virobloc or safety twistlock mechanism was invented by Marcel Opinel in 1955, increasing the safety and versatility of the knife by allowing the blade to be locked in the open position. In 2000, the Virobloc locking mechanism was improved to allow locking the blade in either the open or closed position.
In 1985 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London selected the Opinel as part of an exhibit celebrating the “100 most beautiful products in the world”, featuring the Opinel alongside the Porsche 911 sports car and the Rolex watch. The Opinel was also selected as one of the 999 classic designs in Phaidon Design Classics and has been exhibited by the New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) as a design masterpiece.
Materials
The traditional Opinel knife has a beechwood handle and a high carbon XC90 steel (acier au carbone) blade. Opinel also offers most of its models with a Sandvik 12C27M stainless steel (acier inox) blade. Custom Opinel models are available using luxurious or exotic handle woods such as oak, walnut, olive, rosewood and stained hornbeam, as well as other materials such as cowhorn.
The Opinel Slim Effile series uses a tapered handle with a slender clip point blade made of Sandvik stainless steel, and the handle may be obtained in a variety of different materials, including bubinga wood, olive wood, and cowhorn.
Construction
The current Opinel knife consists of a blade, wooden handle, stainless steel metal clamping band, stainless pivot pin (axle), and (except in the case of the smaller models) a stainless steel Virobloc locking collar, which locks the blade open or closed.
Smaller Opinel models (Nos. 2 through 5) have no locking blade mechanism, and use only the friction of the clamping band against the compressed handle and knife tang to hold the blade open, much the same as all Opinel knives sold before 1955. This simple design was sometimes known as a "penny knife" or "peasant's knife".
The locking collar(Virobloc) was patented in 1955 by Marcel Opinel, and is only found on the larger Opinel models (#6 and up).While simple, the locking mechanism is quite sturdy, and converts the folding Opinel knife into nearly the equivalent of a fixed-blade knife for all practical purposes.Due to the way in which the locking collar tapers, the blade does not loosen over time and can be fixed firmly even once the mechanism is quite worn. In 2000 the locking collar was modified slightly to allow the blade to be locked in the closed as well as the open position.This feature prevents the blade from opening by accident when carried in a pocket.
Eighty percent of all Opinel knives use traditional beechwood for the handle. The company's large demand for beechwood not infrequently results in a shortage of precut handle blanks, forcing the use of rectangular (bulk) sheets, which generate considerable wood waste. The excess wood waste and sawdust generated is subsequently recycled.
Going to the range to shoot my handgun for the first time
I've gone shooting a lot throughout my life
but always long guns and always on someones property
I've shot a few handguns before but never my own
I guess what im asking is, how do I not make a fool of myself first time at the range
Don't be a tardstick
>currently on all fours in a county jail
Oh BOOF, you so crazy
>>27790403
Stick it in your mouth and pull the trigger. Help us all.
mines rambo
>inb4 spelling lol
>>27790234
die hard is a close second i'd say
Wanted :^)
>>27790234
Fury.
I love tanks
I love WW2
I love the look & feel of that movie
Why isn't 5.7 a more popular handgun cartridge?
It opens up the opportunity for ultracapacity centerfire pistols.
Everyone loves the concept behind the PMR30, so why not make an affordable pistol chambered in 5.7 with 30+ rds that isn't over-expensive polyshit like the Five-seveN?
It seems to me that a light loaded 5.7 would even be superior in a mousegun vs. .380 or 9mm, giving you 10-12rds in a pocket pistol with centerfire reliability.
The only real complaint I ever hear is cost, but that would drop like a rock if anyone fucking bothered to make guns chambered in it.
>>27790173
You can't reload them
>>27790173
No it's not
>>27790198
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/816782/rcbs-2-die-set-57x28mm-fn
Any current serving members with ADHD on here? If so I'd like some advice.
I've been in for about two years now and I'm studying on the side. I've noticed I'm having a bit of difficulty concentrating on all this paperwork that comes along with it so I've been thinking about going to a military doc to try get this stuff perscribed to me. Don't get me wrong, I can do my job everyday just fine it's just when it comes to this study shit is where I'm having my dramas.
I'm afraid they might try and discharge me or corps transfer me if I'm identified as having ADHD.
What should I do?
>>27790142
You realize ADHD is a made up disease right?
What should you do?
Pay out of pocket and get assessed on the outside. Don't go to a psych for stupid shit like that. It's unnecessary to have that on your record and you don't even know if you have anything wrong.
Try Military OneSource and ask for a free and confidential counseling session. They will give you a mental health provider to talk to in person that the military has no way of knowing about, unless you say something that triggers a mandatory reporting. They should be able to refer you to someone who is specially trained to assess your learning abilities.
>>27790160
I've been considering getting it done on the outside, but if I get them via a civie doc and if it ever does show up in a drug test then I'm kinda fucked. I figured if I did it through the greenie weenie it would be 100% legal
Alright, /k/, help me understand something. I went to a pawn shop with a friend of mine on Monday. We live in Las Cruces, New Mexico and both play football for NMSU. We were in Albuquerque to honor my friend's cousin, a police officer who had recently died in the line of duty.
Anyway, my friend and I hit this pawn shop, and they inform him he can't by a gun because he's on a weed card. I scored a badass Mossberg 12 guage
for 200 bucks, but they told him they couldn't sell him a gun because he had a weed card.
Is this normal? Can a black man like myself on a drug treatment program for heroin and 6 felony charges with no convictions be able to by up the whole fucking gun store while his law-abiding never in his life been in trouble white friend can't get shit because he smokes weed?
Please don't make this a racial thing. What the fuck. Since when is burning a blunt worse than spiking up?
>>27790025
>law-abiding
>weed card
choose one. marijuana is illegal federally.
>>27790025
It didn't have to be a racial thing, but you mentioned your race. Now it's going to be a racial thing. Good job.
The pawn shop is probably just covering their asses since weed is still illegal at the federal level.
>>27790025
If you want to make it a racial thing
>nigger gets gun
>white boi doesn't
Doesn't sound racial at all, because everyone knows that you can only be racist toward black people and it is not possible to be racist toward white people.
Anyway, Google ATF Form 4473 (you filled it out when you bought the gun). Read the questions carefully, and if you have any questions about the questions-- read the explanation section at the back.
Somewhere in there, should explain it. The felony charges no convictions is fairly simple... no convictions. As to why you didn't get denied though based on heroin rehab that is curious as there is a question asking if you have ever been a user or addicted to certain drugs etc.
It makes sense having a weed card would get you denied as it is still illegal (hardly) at the Federal level. Still seems like you should have been denied as well... assuming you answered the substance question truthfully.
Alternate 1944 thread.
Its 1944. Four years ago Reich set its eyes on taking Africa with Iraq being a priority. In 1940 it invaded North Africa, engaging in seesaw battles with Britain. In 1942 USA hopped on the train, invaded West Africa and eventually cleared all of North Africa. US Navy and RN cleared the Mediterranean and took all relevant islands. Luftwaffe is seriously eroded by US Air Force.
It is 1944. USA is bent on taking Europe (Stalin will only join when Germany is weak enough) and has hundreds of thousands of men all over North Africa and upon british island.
What would be the best way to invade this new Europe?
As stated, Germany and USSR never go to war up and untill Awestern Allies manage to set up a large and indestructible foothold on European mainland.
All but-Stalin-would-attack posters need not apply. Stalin MIGHT attack, but in this scenario he waits to take the spoils with as much ease as possible.
>Stalin will only join when Germany is weak enough
lolwut you need to learn about the Eastern Front, Russia was kicking ass long before Normandy
>aiming for Iraq
Germany had the Eastern European oil fields
>Switzerland is grey
lolwut
They were netural, they were not invaded, had Germany tried the military would have spent so much trying to conquor it would cease to exist
>>27790042
>lolwut you need to learn about the Eastern Front, Russia was kicking ass long before Normandy
In this scenario USSR and Germany are not at war
>Germany had the Eastern European oil fields
Still brutally lacked oil
>Switzerland is grey
My bad.
>>27790009
Your alternate map doesn't make much sense, even if Switzerland is a blunder.
Denmark is invaded, but somehow Iceland stays neutral? Iceland was in a union with Denmark at the time, they got their full independence after the war. When Denmark got invaded, Iceland willingly turned into a Bong base. They couldn't stay neutral.
Also, in this map, Sweden is invaded, but not Norway. This makes absolutely no sense. First of all, Sweden woul be a lot harder to invade than Norway, since they didn't neclect their armed forces in the inter war years, compared to the utter incompetence of the norwegian armed forces. Germany still got their ball bearings and steel from Sweden during the war, and didn't need to invade it. They did need to invade Norway though, to make sure their merchant fleet doesn't fall into british hands (didn't work out too well), and to have relatively secure bases for german warships operating in the atlantic.
Also, Soviet doesn't invade Finland and take their territories, and somehow still loses Murmansk?
How did the F-14 compare to the F-15?
If it had continued being upgraded like the F-15, would it still be a contender against the modern Eagle?
Hangaaaaar Queeeeeeen
F-14 is Kawaiii....
>>27789926
>What is every American fighter jet ever?
So I'm a bit confused here.
These things were made to make the gun easier to carry, though from what I've heard if anyone in the army attempted to hold one by the handle the DI's would absolutely shit on them.
Why the fuck do that have carrying handles in the first place then?
>>27789846
to make them easier to carry.
>>27789850
This
>>27789850
This.
US doctrine regarding the way you carry rifles has changed is all. Not that most rifles are outfitted with carry-handle irons these days anyway. Back in the day, you could carry them by the carry handle and no one would bat an eye. I have images of the old manuals that mentioned it somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find them.
How do I kill it?
![4449484730_tumblr_l9aeim9Git1qa0k4ho1_500_xlarge[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/f2Xjn2v.jpg "4449484730 tumblr l9aeim9Git1qa0k4ho1 500 xlarge[1]")
>>27789810
With my dick. Just keep the mask on though
>>27789810
With a FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE Brother. FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
Hey, /k/. I'm working on a fantasy novel, in which one character is an emerging gunsmith, who is quite enamored about his craft, particularly his prize revolver, Thunder. He will be spending quite a bit of time talking about it's specifications, and I want to get the languages as precise as I can.
What aspects of a revolver, specifically a six-shooter, would a gun fanatic swoon over? The design is somewhat like the photo attached, but less intricate in its design. Thanks in advance for all the help.
>>27789711
>know nothing about guns
>know nothing about revolvers specially
>make a character a gunsmith that talks about his revolver
I guarantee you your novel will be fucking garbage. Just stop writing it now, save your time and effort and do something productive with your life, like shitposting on 4chan.
>>27789711
>>27789736
Yeah, maybe you should stick to writing something you know something about.
>>27789736
this desu senpai
Guise. Help me out.
Getting my first pistol down under. It's gonna be. 22 (Calibre restrictions, biggest I can get for now) it's mainly for target shooting.
Was looking at Walther. The PPQ M2 in particular. Thoughts?
Was offered a PPQ 22 Target from my local dealer for $900, with two mags. Picture very much related. Looks good, but not exactly what I'm after.
>>27789708
What other options do you have?
In my experience the Walther .22 handguns run alright for rimfire, but they're difficult to maintain.
If you can, get a Ruger Mark series. Doesn't particularly matter which model, though some are nicer than others. They're the golden standard for .22 semiauto pistols.
>>27790240
.22 Rimfiire is my only limitation.
I've used the Ruger Marks before. I do not like them at all.
>>27789708
Wait what the fuck?
How come you can't get anything above .22 as your first handgun?
Mine was a 9mm, or do you live in Victoria or an even worse shithole?
