Techres, i don't believe you are a nut job. You seem like an intelligent and reasonable person. Thats why I made the offer, I just think you would benefit from a good conversation and I'm sure the education would go both ways.
The whole bit about killing Americans is a little far. The big problem here is that people that have not served or gone into harms way simply cannot understand. The need for realistic training is paramount you cannot get the same level of realism with role players. The desire for real civilians...
The Guard and the Military will be the last choice in disarming and attempting to control the people here. Our local LEO’s and laws will do that far more effectively and are less apt to rebel against the idea of doing such. As they will be just doing their job enforcing the law. I would be...
that about sums it up actually. The local "police forces" are inept and crooked as hell. And it is not like your giving parking tickets. They heart of counter insurgency is "hearts and minds" if you kick in every door and slam people around then you will quickly loose the support of the...
As for where, there are only so many urban training facilities to go around and the National Guard is a very low priority. I believe the unit in question was simply trying to train their troops. I don't think they thought about how it would look and be misconstrued. They should have but didn't...
I'm new to this site and I always see people talking about open carry. Discussions of who OCed where are all over the place. In what way is people bad ones included knowing your armed a good thing? I'm a firm believer in the first sign that I'm armed is when I start shooting. Am I missing...
Just my :twocents: but don't. It will eventually come loose or break apart. The problem is you can never tell when. If introducing foreign matter into the operating system of your weapon seems like the way to go then soldier on.
Are you serious? ANY type of operation conducted by military personnel in an urban environment in a hostile nation = urban warfare. Not everything is blowing in doors and "waxing tangos" or whatever cool guy internet vernacular the kids are using these days. Unfortunately the modern combat...
One of the best soldiers I know is a full blood Lakota from the res. He still practices his religion. Reservation life sucks, I know I spent a month of leave visiting his family. Huge numbers of the residents of those reservations are drunks and addicts. My friend did not want that for himself...
I have a lot time on the Dragunov. The Dragunov/SVD is not a sniper rifle in the traditional respects. The USSR was a heavily mechanized military. The SVD was designed as what we now refer to as a squad designated marksman rifle. The old Ruskie MTOE had one "sniper" per squad. The SVD was...
Wow. "People" and I use the term loosely protested the funeral of one of my soldiers, leaving emotional scars on a family already devastated by the loss of their son. When the soldiers father asked the police escort to do something he was told by the officer, who was very apologetic that there...
I assume you are using some sort of locking wrench. Put a pipe over the wrench as small a diameter that will fit. You now have a simple machine aka the lever. This will allow you to exert much more force with less effort. The longer the lever the easier it will be. Not ideal but I assure you it...
It's '99 I'm on my first field problem. It happened to be JRTC, so 17 year old Private with maybe 5-6 days in the unit prior to the rotation. They stuck me in gun truck behind an M2 .50cal to "keep me from getting into trouble". The M2 has no safety so lo and behold we're rolling down a trail in...