What was the worst military you worked with /k/?

Also what was the funniest death you saw?

Best last words you've heard?
Cringiest last words you've heard?
Most embarrassing noise a dying person has made.

What's the longest gun you've had /k/?

What's your k/d ratio?

Longest gap in time in contact with your biological father?
Most money you've spent on a tattoo?
Longest you've spent explaining your tattoo?

Unironically USA

Average child support payment?
Average payment for the car loan on your Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Camaro/Mustang?
Amount of times you've looked at your gun and considered suicide (in jest or seriously)?

>>64004263 (OP)
Working with the Israeli military as a US taxpayer. I've paid them 20 billion so far this year but I don't seem to get anything back except war crimes and domestic subversion.

>>64004287
Describe a typical American exchange. What do they commonly talk about?

>>64004263 (OP)
Indians.
>>64004269
Syrian SAA guys would follow us around some of our patrol routes so they didnt get blown up by rebles. However, the rebels just waited for them to turn around and got them halfway back the road after we left lmao

>>64004300
You got Epstein, that's a decent investment.

The Romanians were regarded in their army, but their navy and air force personnel were competent and intelligent.

Best goes to the Finns, despite their equipment and planning being outdated.

>>64004282
a couple weeks, not good at keeping in touch with people
don't have any
20 minutes

>>64004275
muh dik

>>64004306
>decent
we've gotten a very minor return on investment at best

Obligatory

>>64004263 (OP)
Central African Republic Armed Forces.
The bar is set.

>>64004388
Everyone I know who interacted with the Indian army had mostly bad things to say.
It's like they mixed the bad aspects of the British social hierarchy along with their retarded caste system, and as a result all their officers are nepotic lazy incompetents, and their NCO's are completely inept retards.
But boy oh boy if an officer ever shows up to a live fire exercise the tent with refreshments will be set up on time.

>>64004388
Im a grunt so I cant say much but when I was in India (im singaporean), I saw the local butcher using a black chopping board to chop pork. Problem was, when he dumped a slab of meat on the chopping board, the blackness flew away and the board became brown. Its just a fuck ton of flies. None of us who decided to try local food managed to not have food poisoning. Like 40 degree severe food poisoning. Our battalion doc forbade us from eating anything other than the rations we brought over. Maybe things are different now, that was 12 years ago.

>>64004269
Once saw a guy said he was gonna "drop an LS" into his truck. Said truck had really bad engine mounts and the idiot had some wish/aliexpress trash engine holder. Needless to say that LS was dropped onto more things than the truck

>>64004311
>The Romanians were regarded in their army, but their navy and air force personnel were competent and intelligent.
Probably meant "retarded".
Regarding competence, it's sort of funny, since the Romanian navy gets the least amount of funds and is considered an afterthought when budgeting.

>>64004311
>Best goes to the Finns, despite their equipment and planning being outdated.
Does anybody dislike Finns? I suppose Russians have derogatory terms for them but it seems like one of those countries like New Zealand that's hard to dislike.

>>64004302
It's usually a tirade of "do you guys really do [thing associated with an entirely different country]?" or questions about how we like their food and other things in comparison to what we have locally. Oh and there's the failed attempts at language learning/ adopting the local slang they do wherever they go. Fairly childish conversations but I find them cute, their curiosity is at least admirable

FARDC, literally just a bunch of bandits integrated into the military after 2003

>>64004716
Americans live in a bubble. The air-deployable Burger King is a meme but we're really like that. We export Americana wherever we go, and we tend to feel like we're in a foreign country when we travel much more than, say, the British do:
https://youtu.be/pVkYqOoSwvk

>>64004750
>Americans live in a bubble.
THIS, more migration exposure is the answer.

>>64004708
>remote country with small population
>makes them hard to dislike
yeah duh, hard to form stereotypes about a country when barely anyone from the outside interacts with them.
also those two countries are just full of pretty nice amicable people to begin with, and also homogeneous ethnicity can do wonders for social cohesion.

>>64004755
There's a documentary from the GWOT called Shadow Company that talks about this. British-style organizations didn't go full Laurence of Arabia but they were more comfortable working within an Iraqi "system" and eating Iraqi food and so forth. The Brits and other foreign companies would read the street a bit better, while the American organizations were going around blasting Drowning Pool or Toby Keith or whatever.

>>64004708

>>64004771
I remember reading about UK SOF going round with big beards and dressed (somewhat) like native durkhas, and they'd meet up with some American spooks who would 'blend in' with their denim jeans, polo shirts and cap+Oakleys combo

>>64004263 (OP)
Any turd worlder military.

>>64004388
I hate Poojeets so much it's unreal.

Albanians were pretty shit but got to cut them some slack
Afgans were dreadful but I was only around them never actually out with them thank fuck
French seemed to really rate themselves but didn't seem that impressive on excerise.
Macedonians big ugly dirty fucks

>>64004263 (OP)
>What was the worst military you worked with /k/?
Canadians.

>>64004756
Small... remote... hardly anyone interacts with them.
You mean, like North Korea?

canadians.

Leaf street level guys were great it was their policy makers that were all fucked up and made me wonder how the fuck the cf even had any morale.

mexican army. Almost just a smidge arab tier almost.


Brits were great, Danes were great , philipinos were great. Air force seemed corporate mentallity like a corporation.

>>64004750
I blame the horrific cost of travel to anywhere truly foreign. That and my counteymen's (correct) chronic fear of paperwork and dealing with government bureaucrats. Everyone acts like the process of getting a passport is some arcane art that takes a child sacrifice and the government shoves their hand up your ass the whole time

>>64004756
>hard to form stereotypes

Sauna lovin', maalmi eatin', Es drinkin', Russian hatin', pretty women havin', metal listenin', standoffish and autistic sons of Perkele who start speaking sweedish when they get drunk. The whole lot of them.

>>64004859
>process of getting a passport
Town Hall keeps business hours so it's tough to work and visit them even if the process itself is relatively quick.

If I wasn't working from home it would have been difficult girl us last year.

>haha wow americans are so stupid!

meanwhile europeans think red solo cups have cultural american significance

>>64004859
I'm not a burger but seeing how big and geographically varied the USA is, I imagine there's also just less motivation to go abroad when there's so much to see and do in their own country (with the bonus of not having to learn another language or go through all the necessary paperwork).

>>64004907
yeah that's a big factor too, if someone isn't specifically interested in foreign cultures and places its a much easier sell to just go to say, a ski resort that's a couple states over instead of to the alps or something

>>64004302
Aussie grunt here. Every field ex I've ever done with US Marines they've been mind-bendingly retarded.
>jobs which can easily be done by 1 person, like being a Mag58 gunner, are done by a pair of Marines
No one has ever managed to explain to me how we manage just fine giving one guy a Mag58 and putting him in a manoeuvre support section, but Marines need 2 people to do the exact same job
>near infinite amounts of micro ranks and NCOs within an Infantry Section, approaching 3rd world despot Army levels of micro-managing
Why the fuck do there need to be Privates, Lance Corporals, Corporals, Sergeants, and a Staff Sergeant in an Infantry Section?
>average Marine doesn't have a radio
Why?
>non-existent basic field skills like camouflage, not stomping as loud as humanly possible through the bush and walking blindly into every ambush
They literally get taught "human wave" as their one patrol tactic, the massive American death toll in the Pacific and Vietnam becomes obvious once you see them in action.

>>64004716
So it goes both ways, then. Cool. Do they also pretend to know everything about other cultures despite knowing nothing, or is that just a european thing?

>>64004282

10+ years, he and I weren't really on speaking terms after the divorce when I was in elementary school, and I only really started to get back in contact with him in college.
$0
Approximately 30 seconds (I hate needles and don't like the idea of using them to inject ink into my skin)

>>64004275
91/30 Mosin Nagant with the pig sticker bayonet.

>>64004835
why do you think there's so many best korea lovers?

also the finno-korean hyperwar happened because they were fighting over who was most remote and uninteracted with.

>>64005179
>No one has ever managed to explain to me how we manage just fine giving one guy a Mag58 and putting him in a manoeuvre support section, but Marines need 2 people to do the exact same job

Simply carrying the ammo is a two man job. Three plus desu. You sound like you've never used a GPMG in your life.

gunner:
26lb gun
7lb 100rnd starter belt

assistant gunner:
4lb spare barrel
11lb tripod & T&E
28lb 400 rnd belt

ammo bearer:
42lb 600rnd belt

squad leader (who's not supposed to be carrying any of this):
ends up carrying another 200rnd because the modern western org charts all say you only need 3 men max, usually end up with two (lmao) and if you're employing a GPMG as per doctrine it's really a 3.5 or 4 man load.

and that's still not nearly realistic for a platoon attack. you need 1500 minimum, 1800 by the book, and really you should have more like 2400 per gun in a 2-gun team; which again should really be a three-GPMG one if we're insisting on listening to historical lessons.

>>64004263 (OP)
>What was the worst military you worked with /k/?

Unironically the Bundeswehr.
I have never become disillusioned with any other outfit so fast.

>>64005382
story time bitteschön?

>>64004894
If you ever put europeans on the back foot in conversation, it becomes painfully obvious how little they really know and how painfully ignorant they are of everything outside of their narrow bubble of curated understanding.

>>64004263 (OP)
Indonesia
>>64004269
Walked into a tail rotor
>>64004271
Guy asked to hold his wife's hand. We moved her body closer to his whilst a paramedic held his skull together. He held her hand, said I love you and then died.
I won't bother answering the other two, as undignified as death is no human deserves to be laughed at when dying.
>>64004275
.75 cal long rifle
>>64004278
4:1 (I died once)
>>64004282
Years
$0

>>64005384
We were invited to a friendly international shooting competition by a unit statiioned in Berlin.
Their discipline might as well not exist (people were smoking, drinking coffee and eating breakfast during the morning assembly, I nearly had a fucking stroke right there and then), half of them looked fat, out of shape and/or dysgenic.
Out of hundreds of men, I met exactly one guy who was the stereotypical sharp jaw gigachad aryan Hans type that I expected, he was a MG3 man and he handled the thing like it was a Nerf gun, but the rest of the guys were pathetic.

>>64005179
>micro
the micro ranks are due to studying competency in ordering and organizing people. each rank in your list has two to three people they are responsible for under them (besides private) thus in the thirteen man squad (standard American size) you have two fire teams with a clear chain of command, both capable of dividing their strength further if necessary. should the sergeant go down, the chain of command is clear and one of the two corporals will step up. Doctrine likely states that this will be the corporal with more seniority, but actual approach will be whichever has the balls to order the death of the bastard that just shot Sarge. The staff officers will correct the ranking situation after the squad returns to base. this is a big part of why the United States military has the reputation that it is the officers that hold the soldiers back.

>radio
you call them mind-bendingly retarded and then wonder they the average marine doesn't have a radio?
you don't need five hundred soldiers all screaming into their radios that they just made contact and have been ambushed. you need them shooting at the bastard that was stupid enough to pick the fight.
the one's with the radios are using them to call in an artillery strike or calling for reinforcements; possibly both. that's an officer's job. usually a lieutenant or an extremely stressed sergeant who just got a field promotion because the lieutenant was stupid enough to stick his head out of the armored command unit.

>>64004894
Do they not? They're an icon of the backyard cookout which is our greatest cultural institution next to right on red
>>64005399
It's almost like people are ignorant of most things beyond their immediate world. At least we own up to not knowing jack shit most of the time instead of getting smug when a foreigner doesn't know that on the third Tuesday of every month it's tradition to beat any pregnant woman that passes through a revolving door and we call it fatbellispinnibeatinspergen

>>64004388
Kek. Also obligatory

https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/s/T3mEsVBa0Y

>>64005406
>Guy asked to hold his wife's hand. We moved her body closer to his whilst a paramedic held his skull together. He held her hand, said I love you and then died.

Story? By the way you’ve described it,

>husband and wife get into serious accident (car crash or something)
>wife died instantly, husband fatally injured
>husband realized she was dead (and probably realizing he was about to die too) asked to hold her hand one last time
>RIP

Is that inference roughly correct?

>>64004306
Epstein was financed by Russian banks and was almost certainly a Russian asset, not an Israeli one.

>>64005495
He was both. Intel agencies these days are like corporations; if you're thinking about them in terms of being part of a nation then you're thinking too small. Any group that operates as far from the public or any member of government that isn't an unelected beauraucrat as Mossad, CIA, FSB, MI6, etc. tends to act in favor of interests foreign to the country they ostensibly represent.

>>64005345
kek you're a gigantic fucking pussy, I literally carried a mag58 and 800 rounds by myself on 30km patrols in afghanistan kill yourself
>>64005419
actual thirdie cope mindset
we have had SPRs (soldier personal radio) since the late 1990s when we were doing peacekeeping in Timor

>>64004263 (OP)
Israel & India.
no other country even comes close.

>>64005539
>82lb in weapon before counting water, armor, batteries...
good luck maneuvering with that lol. there's a line between tough and stupid, and maybe it's a blurry one sometimes but you leapt over it with a running jump.

>actual thirdie cope mindset
a fireteam stays within shouting range of each other.

It sounds like you had a weird career (or maybe you're a neverserved citing random anecdotes you heard using the national we) and got boomer syndrome confusing your luck for merit; and are now lashing out at everyone who understands the fundamentals.

>>64005539
And if you get hit, your platoon is down an MG. If it was a peer conflict and not a police action, anyway.

>>64004263 (OP)
France.
British and Italians were great.

>>64004822
>Canuks
I truly felt bad for them, great guys but holy shit their command and logistics are FUCKED.

>>64004853
>Mexican Army
Fuck those guys, 7 out 10 are fuck ups and retards while 2 are cartel plants and 1 guy who actually gives a shit about his country.
>Mexican Marines
Complete opposite, if these guys were let off the chain and allowed to death squad on liberals Mexico would be fixed in a week, two tops.

Anybody here trained with our Marina Militare? My uncle was in it aboard the Cavour so I wonder how we are rated.

>>64005179
>ADF MAG
>1 guy
Yeah because you idiots only issue 100 rounds and THATS IT. The ADF would get fucking rolled in any conventional warfare situation because they are so strapped for equipment and ammunition. When your entire defense strategy is "abandon 95% of the country and wait for the US to save us" you know your military is shit.

>>64005179
>US death toll
>looks at Australian death toll in Europe/Singapore/East Timor
Oooooooooooooof

>>64005539
>you carried 800 rounds
No.

>>64005794
I did. Your harrier pilots were hungry and always glad to get any kind of training.

>>64005729
>>64005741
>>64005797
you're a bunch of limp wristed faggots, this is literally exactly what I carried on my 2011 trip
>50 round belt on the gun
>800 link rounds split into four webbing pouches with 200 rounds in each
>then all the rest of my shit
DFSW (weapons platoon as you call it) bring tripods and C2 sights and shit. We just weren't pussies and carried Mag58s by ourselves

>>64005850
>any of this
No.

>>64005797
>Yeah because you idiots only issue 100 rounds and THATS IT
Australian M60 gunners in Vietnam were issued 200 rounds and riflemen were issued 60 rounds. Google the battle of Long Tan where 1 Infantry Company held off an entire Regiment of NVA with 2 mags each. Meanwhile Americans were bringing 20 mags on patrol and shooting it all into the trees and still getting killed by the thousand.

>>64005858
>literal photographic evidence
I REFUUUUSE TO BELIEVE MY OWN EYES!!! A 10.9 KILOGRAM MACHINEGUN IS TOO HEAVY FOR MY BITCH ARMS TO CARRY NOOOOO HELP MEEE ASSISTANT GUNNER CARRY MY AMMO FOR ME I'M TOO WEAK

>>64005868
>Long Tan
It was a company.
>ignores MACVSOG
lol, lamo.

>>64004271
>Most embarrassing noise a dying person has made.
The answer is always long pronounced farts, even before they die. Someone who just experienced physical drama is prone to letting some noisy ones rip.

>>64005882
>photo
Of 50 rounds. The ADF was so useless in Afghanistan all they did was get ambushed and commit warcrimes.

>>64005906
Literally 800 in the webbing you dumb fuck. I carried that in the field too. I also carried a spare barrel and ECMs too.

>>64005923
Mhhmm this stock photo totally convinced me that you carried all that shit (you didnt) during your enlistment (that you didn't do) and that you are a 6'12 Aryan warrior (youre a chink)
Mhm yes I totally believe you now

>>64004263 (OP)
I didn't really train with the Canadians but every single one of them I saw were obese when they came to our base in Spain.

>>64004275
>longest
12 gauge fowling piece (flintlock) with 48” barrel

>>64004263 (OP)
Every interaction with the ROK Navy convinced me of a high probability they would end up shooting us/themselves by mistake if things ever went hot, or that they'd drop the ball on account of schizo-tier intra-service rivalries among the top brass, like some real IJN shit.
Can't speak to their other services but the Army guys I know never really had any serious complaints about their land forces aside from concerns about conscript motivation and expertise.

>>64004750
>Comments on video are full of Turks coping about Arabs 'betraying' them

>>64005797
>When your entire defense strategy is "abandon 95% of the country and wait for the US to save us" you know your military is shit.
Name a country besides America that can maintain the logistics to occupy 95% of Australia without collapsing

>>64005800
To be fair the Jap’s caught everyone off guard in 41, the same time we lost Malaya/Singapore was the same time you lost the Philippines.

>>64005179
>the massive American death toll in the Pacific and Vietnam becomes obvious once you see them in action.
Frontal assaults against fortified positions on mountain slopes with minimal fire support, solely because MacArthur wanted to island hop to the Philippines to pretend like he didn't fuck up.

>>64005179
>just fine giving one guy a Mag58 and putting him in a manoeuvre support section, but Marines need 2 people to do the exact same job

do you guys carry tripods?

>>64007119
no, the mag58 is an individual weapons system

>>64004383
>very minor return
Heh

>>64004894
>red solo cups have cultural american significance
I did 2 years studying in the US, and those fucking cups were everywhere. Wallmart, beerpong, the average campus party, cookouts, tailgating, camping, you name it. Basically the only part of american movies that lived up to expectation

>>64007302
its just a cheap cup

>>64004771
>driving through the northern outskirts of baghdad with vip
>front vehicle hits an ied
>start taking fire from a nearby rooftop
>vip shitting bricks
>I wanna talk about me starts playing

>>64007343
cheap things can be culturally significant
just look at McDonald (when it was still cheap)
going to the movies (when it was still cheap)
getting hotdog (when it was still cheap)
shooting some ammo (when it was still cheap)
in conclusion american culture resolves around things that used to be cheap but no longer are

>>64005482
>all the jeets in the comments calling this disinfo
kek so predictable

>>64007343
Its condensed Americana, anon

>>64007373
>in conclusion american culture resolves around things that used to be cheap but no longer are
Hence why the hottest shit nowadays is free music, free videogames, free cartoons, and free video content. It ain't relevant if nobody can afford it

>>64005771
>France.
Pourquoi?

>>64004608
Delhi belly is, and always will be, a thing

>>64004750
>>64004859
People from other very large countries, like China, tend to be like this as well. You could live your whole life and not see all of your own country and all it's variety, let alone the rest of the world. India, China, and the US are little worlds all by themselves.

>>64004608
>Maybe things are different now, that was 12 years ago.
No, they'll never change.

>>64004263 (OP)
Been to exercise with other militaries around the world (usually under UN) and from my experience, most rank and files soldiers are somewhat adequately trained. They knew basic fire movement, they knew proper musketry/target shooting, map reading et cetera

The problem lies with the officers.

>>64005536
Not even remotely true.

>>64005429
> fatbellispinnibeatinspergen
Can you BELIEVE the woke commie faggots tried to ban this? Used to love me some belly kicking, but now it's all regulated and you have to use foam bats when you beat the woman. This country is so COOKED when WW3 comes! Is this what our honoured dead fought for in WW2?!

>>64006100
He's not wrong, British Army L7A2 gunners generally carried 600-800rds on combat patrols. So did US troops, apparently they just reused these APOBS containers, perhaps their webbing didn't have the capacity?

>>64007467
It's not like his partner in crime had a mossad operative for a father or anything like that.

>>64007267
then that explains why US Army and USMC weapons squads have 2 or 3 guys per gun, because one of them is carrying a tripod and when it's on the tripod it is a more capable weapon

the machine gun is vitally important, idk why you're bragging about half assing your MGs

>>64004263 (OP)
Never served but saw a caf ranger or soldier walking around a playground, causing a native family to leave.
Think he may have been intoxicated or fucked in the head cause after they left he went back towards the camp.

>>64004383
Some might even say underage

>>64007473
It's truly a sad sight, my brother is a proud child of that time honored tradition before the commies regulated it and he grew into a great man (who suffers regular seizures but who doesn't at the ripe old age of 22?)

>>64004708
They have to be the best conscript army. I say this without insult.

>>64004894
For a bunch of smuggos that pride themselves on safety and cleanliness, youd think theyd have adopted the plastic cup before US

>>64008719
Enjoy your microplastics filled testicles and retarded, deformed children.
Also, plastic leaches into drinks and affects the taste, glass is the superior material.

>>64004907
It’s 900 miles from London to Barcelona.
It’s 800 miles just from my little city to Las Vegas, which is the closest thing you could ostensibly call a destination.

>>64008881
Europeans have little concept of how big the USA is. Texas is 10% larger than France. Most Europeans have little understanding of the vast cultural differences between people in Oklahoma vs Minnesota.

>>64005179
>They literally get taught "human wave" as their one patrol tactic, the massive American death toll in the Pacific and Vietnam becomes obvious once you see them in action.
Lol wat? A positive KD for the assaulting side both times? That’s rich coming from the helpless benefactor in both of those conflicts. I bet the NVA would outperform you wallaby-fuckers in your own northern states. Because we how how the Japs treated you across the strait

>>64004275
Martini with the anti-Zulu device

If Australia was smart it would cast of USA and ally with China

>>64008901
I can walk a hundred yards from my shitty flat in my shitty little unknown town and see musket ball holes in the church walls from the Civil War in 1650. I can walk a mile outside town and find a neolithic stone circle. And the same is true all over Europe.
Europe is a vastly larger place in human terms than American ever will be, every inch of it packed with more history and culture than Americans could even comprehend.
America isn't larger, it's just empty. Miles and miles of fucking nothing inhabited by gap toothed retards who's minds have been hollowed out and emptied by the sheer nothingness of the place. Literally nothing of any note has ever happened outside New York, Los Angeles and a few other American cities and nothing ever will.
It's a spiritual black hole, with nothing to nourish the soul or mind. No wonder Americans get on so well with Russians.

>>64008901
>Europeans have little concept of how big the USA
No one cares

>>64008746
I despise plastics and have never bought them, mostly because I don’t invite others to drink with me. I’m not defending solo cups, just insulting my idea of Yuro-Eco shits who always seem to have bottles thrown at riot cops whenever there’s a footy game and broken glass in their gutters.
For cultures with much looser public drinking, I’m surprised is all.

>>64008914
If we were smart we'd buy nukes from Israel and nuke Beijing.

>>64008746
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html
You got oneshot by your own retardation plastic balls.

>>64006658
>over 650
What an asspull

t. denbts

How do Americans deal with third world militaries? Especially those who are destitute and poorly trained?

It must suck for officers and NCOs to get stuck with retards who will remain poorly equipped and will revert to their usual ways even after being trained.

>>64008926
Stop being defensive. We’re talking about why people from your area think everyone is like you, when that’s not the case. Europe does have a lot of heritage we envy. Which makes its current cultural path sad, somehow becoming worse than ours in less than 10 years. Now we’re both browning shitholes but at least US is actually hasguns, even though we never use them for their intended purpose.

>>64008926
Which other country has even heard of your civil war? Because you yuros know about ours.

>>64008999
Wut? I'm a burger and have, it was kind of a big deal anon.

>>64008989
This. Always envied the history but traveling is prohibitively expensive for many. I have direct family members there and still only go every couple of years

>>64005539
Did you really think calling yourself australian would make people think you're not chinese?

>>64008976
The countries involved in active hot zones obviously know what they’re doing more than a peacetime corps’.
I never saw shit yet I was positioned to ‘train’ Pinoys (not 3rd world btw) who guys that had been fighting Muslims for 5-30 years and were just rotating out for a half year. Their platoon were wordlessly synchronous while we burgers were 19-24yo fresh out of schools. This was 2015, only our team leader had seen any of Afghan. Exact same thing in Thailand.

>>64008999
I could fill up several days taking a tourist around my shitty town showing him historical places and things of note just within walking distance, and have.
What would you show a tourist? The water tower were Billy-Bob fell off and broke his ass, heehaw heehaw? The high school football stands where Uncle Merle stuck his hand up his cousin Peggy's shirt the first time?
You are not of our element.

>>64008926
>why don’t new worlders have culture everywhere?
>lol New worlders are only 400 years old
I think you are just answering your own question there Fren. And anyway, The United States of America are more comparable to the EU as a body than any 1-4 of its constituent states. And there is more pros than cons to traveling 1000 kilometers in any direction and still being among a like people using the same systems.

>>64009047
And I would brag about having guns but, like you’re doing, bragging about the things that one didn’t earn but were rather past down by his forefathers is ungodly.
Just the land the US is on makes up for any fossil left by man. The majesty of the public land and parks in the US will always be the counter to the interesting relics of the medieval old country.

>>64009047
I would take him inna mountains and we could zip through trails in my mule and roast marshmallows and shoot funs?
Or take him to the grasslands and zip across the plains in my mule and roast marshmallows and shoot funs 2000m in any direction?
Either is like an hour away.

>>64004300
Bombing shitskin brown people is not a war crime you fucking commie cunt. God bless Israel!

>>64009047
A shitoad? I live in podunk wisconsin and I can show you where we made submarines that we floated down from the Lake Michigan through Chicago and the Mississipi River to eventually go through the Gulf of Mexico, Panama Canal, and the Pacific Ocean to kill Japs. You would have no idea about that, would you. Or owning or shooting guns. While posting on a gun board.

>>64009086
>>64009122
>Hey, come and see our nothing, where nothing ever happened and nobody cared!

>>64009181
>We have a factory!
>You wouldn't know about that, would you europoor, living in the cradle of the industrial revolution and the center of shipbuilding for 300 years?
Something really has to be done about American education.

>>64009227
It's natural history vs human history. Maybe if you broke out of your element every now and then and appreciated the wild beauty of this earth you'd understand that there's more to history than what's in museums or written on plaques

>>64005179
>Every field ex I've ever done with US Marines
>US Marines
>Marines

...I think I found the problem. You may have had the poor fortune of being exposed to the second-lowest form of life on the planet (after the High School gym-teachers)

>>64004859
Is that cum or burger grease on those fingerprints on that passport?

>>64008926
As a native of Eastern Virginia, I just laugh at stuff like this

>>64009227
That was a single example about war history. We also have Civil War stuff, since that seemed to be the important one of yours. So, that's two that are exactly the same as your shitty ones from your irrelevant county. Trying to meet you halfway here, since that's the best you got.

>>64008926
stop being such a stuck up prick
t-lives right between a 900 old castle, 2 thousand year old churches and a "modern" 500 year old one
>>64008901
true but there is less cultural density largely due to lower population density and a much higher degree of mobility of the population. So you don't get the kind of local culture you can get in Europe unless you got to the mountains or swamps like the Cajuns, Appalachias and the Vermont commies
Most Europeans will never go to the US most of those that do stick only to the East or West coast cities.
The way I came to grasp how big and open the US still is was when I drove south of Washington DC across the Potomac along the hills less than 5km from the mall there's wooded hills. Can you imagine some woods, not a park, 5km from the center of a major European capital?
>>64007407
American culture has such appeal because it by it's very nature is culture for the masses. It's meant to be consumed and not over thought, there is very little knowledge required to understand it.
That is in my limited opinion on of the drivers of the current political divide in the US. The US is starting to develop it's own elite/high culture and it is coming into conflict with the mass culture.
take something like the "spirit cooking" paranoia. If you know cultural elites in Europe you understand that they can get up to some weird stuff but it isn't inherently harmful, just people getting a high on their own ego. But to the masses in the US having a combination of the culinary and weird performative art is just wrong because it requires a certain amount of knowledge to understand and appreciate it. It isn't the lack of knowledge (as to understand what ever the fuck they are trying to convey), but the requirement of knowledge that rubs people the wrong way.

>>64009287
Burger grease, like any red blooded American I had a cheeseburger to celebrate getting my passport

>>64009181
>A shitoad? I live in podunk wisconsin and I can show you [a factory that doesn't work no more]
Lol, lmao

>>64009328
>Stop being such a stuck up prick
>Actually Americans are very stupid and simply don't understand about things like spirirt cooking, because it requires a base knowledge they don't have

>>64004263 (OP)
US Army Rangers. Don't get me wrong, they were great at their jobs, but they were all raging dickheads.

>>64009328
What is there to understand about "spirit cooking?" It's rich people it's too much money who did too many drugs getting swindled by weirdo charlatans who also did too many drugs.

>>64009368
>I said they are stupid
learn to read
>>64009544
beats me, if I where into modern art I'd not be posting here

>>64008926
I'd rather the US and yuros be buddy-buddy, but seething mad losers like you'll never let that happen.
You're so mad, and over nothing too!
You're too emotional!

>>64009365
Matiowoc and Oshkosh still produce military vehicles.

>>64005495
I think he almost definitely must've been involved with Israel in some way. I don't see why there would be such a bipartisan effort to cover up his case otherwise.

>>64005484
Kind of,
>they were on a motorcycle, enjoying a summer ride away from the kids
>Insert truck
>She dies before we arrived, he had his skull shattered
>Kept asking for her
>He was blind, brains leaking out the back of his head
>Soon as he grabbed her hand he knew it was her.
>Said he loved her and I swear I saw his soul leave

I'll never forget that mans determination and dedication to his wife. It's one of the few deaths that I still vividly remember

>>64005604
>Israel
Really, I've seen a lot of posts that liked them. Is it because they're mostly incompetent conscripts?

>>64004418
>the tent with refreshments will be set up on time.
Reminds me of that scene at the end of Black hawk down when the Rangers get to the colosseum the Pakistani's are waiting for them with these little trays and hand them actual glasses of water lol

>>64009954
>I've seen a lot of posts that liked them
Wow gee it's almost like there's something up with that.

>>64004263 (OP)
>Naval exercise with us (Murica), Egypt, and some middle eastern countries
>Starts off tied to a pier in Nowhere, Egypt
>Can't leave ship because of atfp measures
>Trash floating everywhere air smells like burning plastic
>Egyptians were super friendly though
>Do various training exercises, most end up being a mess
>Do a night time man overboard drill together
> Sitting in CIC on watch looking at Oscar (man overboard dummy) through IR camera
>One of the middle east countries says they got him right when exercise starts
>Another one says they got him later (its a floating trash bag)
>Egyptians cut in over radion arguing saying no they are recovering him
>Watch as their frigate runs him the fuck over and keeps going

We lost a liberty port for this.

I expected the first 10 replies to mention the
Need
Any
Vaseline
Yet.

>>64008926
No one cares. You suffer from the same problem Africa always has: the most intrepid of your kind went abroad or died in an endless series of wars. What’s left are those too cowardly to die in battle or set off into the unknown. Look how desperately you cling onto the ancient past of your betters. Pathetic.

>>64008941
Says the seething euro. Your continent hasn’t been relevant in 80 years with the possible exception of the USSR. Cope and seethe.

>>64009047
The irony is the USA is the oldest continuous government in existence. But hey, at least you can brag about how your bloodline in your hamlet was decimated 500 centuries ago so Lord Fhlafhkurer could impregnate his sister without the Pope’s permission. Much wow.

>>64007419
Half didn't want to be there and the other half were arrogant and incompetent, there's a reason why Africans are the only wins France can get and now not even that anymore.

>>64009328
You’ve been dripfed Americana your entire life. Of course you didn’t it consumable. Imagine being this completely unaware of what a cultural victory the US has over Europe. You literally can’t stop thinking about us.

>>64004608
The vast majority of Americans and Australians on /k/, hate and despise Singapore

>>64010612
I only hate them because of what they did to the ultimax

>>64005495

>>64009022
Philippines is definitely a turd world shithole

>>64004263 (OP)
Djibouti. Really any African country but definitely Djibouti. We brought their VBSS team aboard for a week for training, dudes had what was basically low budget SWAT gear that didnt fit and plain AK47s. Dudes were wearing helmets 2x their size just sliding sideways off their head. They spent most of the time sitting in the classroom doing nothing because they didnt bring anything to do and we couldn't let them wander. When they actually did boarding and searches it was like watching children tripping over each other. They wouldnt talk to any of us either and pretended they didnt speak English so people were saying heinous stuff around them. Their team lead thanked us in perfect English when he left.

>>64008926
lmao fag

>>64010488
>Watch as their frigate runs him the fuck over and keeps going
I see the crew were personally trained by Unit 777.

>>64005482
>Imagine if you farted in a vacuum and then immediately sealed the door, and then you opened said door 10 years later...that's what their ship smelled like pretty consistently.
saar?

>>64004708
Yeh but kiwi nigger lovers are really easy to hate though.

>>64008901
>Most Europeans have little understanding of the vast cultural differences between people in Oklahoma vs Minnesota.
Are you serious? City people are basically the same around the US. Rural people have assimilated into a monoculture of national wiggerdom. The Southern accent is dying.

If you think Oklahomans and Minnesotans are more culturally different than French and Germans, you are off your rocker or have never travelled even domestically.

>>64009141
This is why I support bombing Israel

>>64005495
>stein
Do the math.

>>64010524
>The irony is the USA is the oldest continuous government in existence.
The British parliament has been sitting for longer. Retard.

>>64010678
>>64011169
The FSB paid shills didn't like this post.

>>64004311
>Best goes to the Finns, despite their equipment and planning being outdated.
Fuck you, man. We're prepared to fight Russians and they're fighting like it's 1942. And we're poor country, we have to keep all Soviet stuff in action.

>>64010524
the swiss confederation was established in 1291
san marino got it's constitution in 1600
the papal states have been going for longer

>>64010524
The kingdom of Sweden has been there like from 1200's.

>>64004269
People dying isn't actually funny when it happens in front of your face you fucking edgelord. Jesus Christ, you're retarded.

>>64010154
They're muttmerica's little brother, It makes sense they'd have a half decent military

>>64011754
What? She fell funny.

>>64006100
>>64005906
> Getting baited this easily
For shame, anon. For shame.

>>64005850
Yeh guys. Look how much fun this faggot’s having, toting the whole machine gun with him with no help.

and here he is defending how much that sucked LMFAO

>>64008926
> America is historically empty
> Cahokia
> Keet Seel
> Serpent Mound
Just because you're stuck up and uneducated doesn't mean America has no history, dumbass.

>>64010524
The American constitution is rusty as shit and the only reason it still goes on is because nobody trusts each other enough to make a new one that isn't retarded.

>>64012189
We also have a system to amend it as needed. Effectively the constitution has an indefinite shelf life as its not a static document

>>64008926
Exceptionally based post.

>>64012203
It's pretty flawed if it's federalism and penumbra of privacy only serves to make Americans more vulnerable to identity theft than Europoors. It's telling that judges and other public officials get GDPR-tier privacy, but nobody else does while all someone has to do is guess a 4-digit sequence to clean out your bank account.

>>64011754
>t.

>>64005207
Why'd you stop speaking to him?

>>64006728
>Name a country besides America that can maintain the logistics to occupy 95% of Australia without collapsing
Idk China?

>>64004263 (OP)
Easily the americans.

>>64009227
>t.

>>64004755
Nigger, our entire country was founded by migrants. Do you know nothing about the US?

>>64012610
Australia.

>>64012610
Britain

>>64005179
Suspiciously chinese post for an alleged australian.

>>64004907
Kinda yeah, want beaches? We have Florida, the Carolinas, California, and Hawaii. Want mountains? Yup we got those, want to experience a tiny bit of other cultures? Go to major cities, most of them have 'little [x]' little Korea, little Italy, etc. Sure it is nowhere near the same as visiting the country, but if all you are after is some food and maybe picking up a word or two then that gets you 80% of the way. Also not to sound mean, but there is just so much to see here for only a few hundred dollars on maybe a plane ticket and an *okay* hotel room where as a trip to Europe to see multiple countries can and easily will be like $20k+ if you are there for any meaningful amount of time. Also while some Asian destinations are cheap, the flights typically are not. Another factor is the concept of flying across the pacific in a plane terrifies some people, I know I would have to mentally prepare myself for it.

>>64008926
kek all the buttblusted ameriogres shartin' and seethin' at this post

>>64005179
wassup beijing

>>64012782
Hanmutts also can't brag about this since they destroyed all their history.

>>64005179
>totally not west taiwanian

>>64008926
here's a definitive chart I've made based on my life experience
I've lived in 9 different states and been to 48 (no Hawaii or Alaska so I won't comment on them)
This guy is mostly right, stuff like >>64012004 may as well be in the middle of amazon rain forest for how inaccessible it is to most people

>>64004263 (OP)
USAF fag here.

Great:

>Brits. They're wonderful at executing the mission, but god they're a bunch of smug faggots.
>Aussies (special prize for having no woman below at least a 9. Their ugliest girl was still model tier.)
>Koreans
>Japs
>Netherlands

Good:
>Flips. They had no money and shit equipment but if someone is going to run around the jungle doing insurgent shit, I want these guys.
>Germans
>Italians


Okay
>Iraqi SOF
>Spanish
>French

Shit
>Canadians
>Indians (basically same as above)
>Qataris
>Saudis
>UAE


WTF tier
>Afghans
>Iraqi normies

>>64012841
>likes chicagoland
gross, but at least you have it more on the wi side

>>64012841
>hands limp from s.oy and estrogen typed this

>>64005495
kek oh yeah, I forgot his girlfriend's dad was KGB and had a huge funeral ceremony in Moscow.

>>64008926
I didn't think I'd get to see seething of this caliber today anon. Thanks.

>>64012841
>Makes an exception for fucking Denver
Sorry sweaty that Harris lost. Also sorry about Hilldawg losing too. I guess you could say Trump IS the glass ceiling.

>>64009922
;_;

>>64012874
i currently live in Chicago and I love it; one of the best cities in the world and easily America's second best city
but here's my map

>>64012922
sorry I'm for being honest when I'm willing to to say Denver is a boring place but still better than fucking Ruckersville, Virginia

>>64012950
How can you post here and look at yourself in the mirror with your trash opinion. Fuck chiraq.

>>64012841
Surprised you didn't put New Orleans in "irredeemable shithole"

>>64011544
>doesn't exist anymore
>literal microstate
>doesn't exist anymore

>>64005419
Marines are doctrinally split into 3 fire teams not 2 anon that's the Army.

>>64012841
New England is an amazing place to live, if you have 800k for a house. Otherwise its like Virginia/West Virginia but colder and more expensive.

>>64012841
Stanky yankee or seattlefag?

>>64005179
>MMG team
Because the 7.62 MGs are held at a company level for supporting fires. The 249/guy they told to put his M27 on full auto is the team/squad level MG. You guys just don't have those
>Ranks
Now I'm army so we're organized a little differently but the general concept is 1 leader for 3 men. E4 and below are basically all the same rank. All it means is you get more pay for breathing in formation now. Your staff sergeant is the squad lead, he hands off orders to his team leads which will normally rank sergeant. Corporals are basically an administrative rank that sees little actual use and is mainly there to show we want to promote a guy but there's no slot available for him so we give him two stripes tell him he's kind of an NCO and he's on the very short list for when a slot opens up
>Radios
Honestly no clue on that one. All the infantry guys I know get personal radios but I know some reserve/rear line units won't always have them just because the commander doesn't want to sign them out
>Field craft
I've got nothing on that one since the guys I know are very hardcore on that shit. Like I said previously are you drilling with reservists or like maintenance and admin guys?

>>64012975
Probably because he's actually been there. The map reeks of someone who only flies to different cities and never bothered to actually explore and talk to people.

>>64005850
What the fuck is that holster doing at his knee lol

>>64004263 (OP)
Macy's security. some random corporate boss bitch showed up one day and started questioning me while i was on duty and was buddy buddy with the bosses but nobody informed me who she was and she assumed ill follow her orders because "youve seen me around the office" like yeah you could just be some stupid slut, which she was. anyway i ignored her "orders" and nothing came of it. also, jrotc kids thinking im supposed to salute them as an enlisted vet, lol faggots.

>>64012950
you couldve just posted this map

>>64013203
YIKES

>>64012775
>Europe to see multiple countries can and easily will be like $20k+ if you are there for any meaningful amount of time
the fun thing is that yourfags can take the same trip for 6-7k tops, it's not the fights that make it expensive. it's the habits of american tourists.
mainly that they want to squeeze to much into one trip. so they book hotels in the center of major cities that cost double of what you'd pay if you took a short train ride to a smaller city. they eat in trourist trap restaurants right next to one of the sights because going a few streets of the beaten path takes up to much time. they incur extra travel costs within Europe because they don't consider alternatives that take a bit more time.
take a bit more time, pay a lot less, come again

>>64012992
>switzerland doesn't exist anymore
>it's not a state if it's small
>the Vatican doesn't exist any more as a separate sovereign nation

>>64012775
>easily will be like $20k+ if you are there for any meaningful amount of time
Have you seen what it costs to get a hotel that's not a pajeet run dump in the US? Already, you get so fucked in the ass skiing in the US, you can save money in Europe including the flight.

>>64013520
>Already, you get so fucked in the ass skiing in the US, you can save money in Europe including the flight.
Christ don't tell them, skiing is expensive enough as it is without a flood of burgers leaving grease trails all over the slopes

>>64005495
Lmfao this is incredible. You should be embarrassed.
>>64005536
There's a kernel of truth in this, the CIA for example outsourced a lot of its freakier activities after the Church hearings. It's not even really hidden. The Safari Club, BCCI, Nugan-Hand, Epstein's money, Inslaw, the broader ecosystem of Iran-Contra. You can see the same thing over and over, there's a shitload of power and money held by people that don't collect a formal paycheck from the feds, but they do work for intelligence and they fundraise through organized crime.

>>64013506
None of those were continuous governments. And we have Indian nations, which are also irrelevant nothings just as old.

>worst military
Ukrainians
>best military
Ukrainians

>>64008284
Former 0351 here, spent a lotta time with the 0331s since we were in the same platoon when in garrison. The US infantry realizes what a colossal force multiplier the medium machine gun is. Using it as a crew served weapon lets you have more ammo, shoot from a tripod, carry a spare barrel, and have a second guy get on the gun if the gunner goes down. It's clearly possible to field one solo but in a platoon or larger size element, you should be running it crew served.

>>64008901
This is for damn sure.

>>64008926
Dawg I wish I could invite you over. I'd love to show you my part of America. Picrel. You might understand it better.

>>64009544
>What is there to understand about "spirit cooking?"

Its a symbolic cannibalism ritual enacted by jews who worship carnivorous man eating transdimensional entities. It was with these entities they made their covenant with 3500 years ago.

>>64013203
>>64013459
Some 28 years later shit

>>64009247
>It's natural history vs human history. Maybe if you broke out of your element every now and then and appreciated the wild beauty of this earth you'd understand that there's more to history than what's in museums or written on plaques
Unironically this is third-world cope rhetoric, but the sheer landmass of the US renders it true.

>>64012775
>want to experience a tiny bit of other cultures? Go to major cities, most of them have 'little [x]' little Korea, little Italy, etc. Sure it is nowhere near the same as visiting the country, but if all you are after is some food and maybe picking up a word or two then that gets you 80% of the way.
Tbf in the EU you can drive like 1-2 hours and cross the border into an entirely different country, as opposed to copy+paste working class Asian ethnic neighbourhoods/'ghettos'.

>>64012847
What's the deal with the Canadians now, low budget and unmotivated/incompetent?

>>64013972
So it's a weirdos with too much money who did too many drugs acting like weirdos with too much money who did too many drugs?

>>64013823
Yeah if manpower allows you always want an A gunner. In the army at least I've always been told you're lucky to have 7 out of 9 men in a squad

>>64013603
>switzerland and the vatican are irrelevant
brvh

>>64013261
>jrotc kids thinking im supposed to salute them
That is so unbelievably cringe, what did they actually say to you lmao?

>>64012775
>20k+
Nah more like 3k and I was being loose with my wallet. Hostels are great, both to save money and to socialize and potentially form exploration parties with other travelers to make exploring new places easier. >>64013494 is right on the money, we have this nasty habit of trying to do everything in one go and have a shitty time as a result. Like my brother told me before I boarded my first flight abroad, "passports are reusable so don't worry if you have to take a second trip"

>>64012610
I have serious doubts China could

>>64014025
>So it's a weirdos with too much money who did too many drugs acting like weirdos with too much money who did too many drugs?

These entities are quite real and it is quite a lot more than that. Why do you think most of the kids Epstein trafficked are gone without a trace?

>>64014031
Yes.

>>64014044
hostels are fantastic and so are road side motels
they aren't as common in Europe (or as good looking at you F1). Plus renting a car isn't necessarily your best transport option in Europe.
but you can save a lot of money staying in those if you are already renting a car.
me and my brother did a month long road trip trough the US on a little over 4k euro getting a cheap flight, cheap car, never sleeping in a city proper and buying our own food at a wallmart or other big box store.

a final tip for any americans with kids that want to visit Europe. There's a well developed market for rental holiday homes. Depending on the season, location ect you can get one for 500 euro a week. Now try to find two, two bed rooms for that kind of money.
Try to find one close ish to one or more cities you want to go to (northern Italy and the low countries come to mind) rent one for a week and then rent a car or use public transport to get to them.
not only will you save on lodging but you can also cook, pack lunches, do laundry ect. all great ways to cut down costs.
it also helps to keep the kids from acting up by letting them have separate rooms, a proper sit down dinner (or just take away) ect.
because nothing sucks more on your expensive trip than kids acting up and ruining things for you.
/k/ travel advise

>>64011580
Sorry nigger, you have had two new constitutions: 1809 and 1974. Nice try but no cigar.

>>64010986
I’ll do you one better: confuse an Okie for a Texan and prepare for righteous fury

>>64011248
That’s really interesting, bro. So when was the UK formed?

>>64014295
Airbnbs seem like they aren't strictly worse hotels like they are in most of the US. That's another plus for the family vacation.

>>64011754
It can be.

>>64004894
I know you're like 14 but people were literally putting them up on fence posts after 9/11 as an "American" symbol

>>64008914
Soon.

>>64013823
They probably use the 240 as a SAW instead of having a weapons squad, that's how British do it too

clearly inferior to a US Army light infantry platoon having up to nine machine guns by itself, and 2 - 3 of them being tripoded GPMGs being fed by ammo slaves, and commanded by a SALTY WIESEL
fuck that australian guy

>>64009922
Peace brother, you gave him that much, it's okay to have it yourself as well

>>64014703
It was to spell things in a chain link fence because it fits and is a kids' craft project. Are you retarded?

>>64013175
Chiraqi ko nigga,
But I lived in Salem, Oregon and Boston for a few years each and they are definitely good places

>>64005406
>4:1 (I died once)
Revives don't count

>>64013193
I haven been on a plane in 22 years (cause i like to have my guns everywhere)
Here's my edc

>>64004263 (OP)
Iraqis. They fucking sucked at everything except making tea, and even that wasn't very good. Honestly, I have no idea how the Kurds are so radically different, living so close together. I saw a Kurdish business owner decide to personally arm a militia and go fight IS, bringing his 14 and 16 year old daughters with him. That 14 year old waif of a kid hauled more sandbags in a day than I'd ever seen ANY Iraqis haul in 2 years, combined. Her older sister was a better shot than 90% of the IA and, despite rounds zipping maybe 30cm over a berm, she belly crawled up to it, turned on her side to keep one eye poking over and sat there with a rock for a pillow so she could keep putting rounds onto the berm IS was firing from. This literal child, with a fucking Jpop star's sticker on her diary, showed more fighting spirit than I'd seen from any Iraqi, except CTS.

>>64014833
I lived in Oregon for a year and Seattle for 5. I did not hear a single nice thing about Salem that didn't have to do with Silver Falls.

>>64008926
Big ole faggot

>>64014896
Because the Kurds are motivated to fight for their very survival while the Iraqis are there because they're either too retarded to do anything else, nepotism or both. Besides, we all know all of the "talented" Iraqi prospects were fighting for IS

>>64010756
Not as much of a shithole like India. They barely have anny pluming there.

>>64004716
A child made this post.
>>64005179
A larper made this post
>>jobs which can easily be done by 1 person, like being a Mag58 gunner, are done by a pair of Marines
Tripods. Its very unique to them and its a really good idea, actually. Everyone who has ever worked with Marines knows this.

>>64004894
I don't think Americans are stupid
I just think your culture(s) is a bit peculiar

I heard from USMC guys that Georgians were just the most incompetent fuck-around retards they ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Anybody have stories? I wouldn't have expected them to be great but I was surprised to hear these guys go off on how bad the Georgians were.

>>64015712
I've been to Georgia, that checks out.

>>64013823
>>64014717
kek seething

Infantry Platoons are made up of 8-man Sections
>Section commander
>2IC
>2 grenadiers with 40mm
>2 gunners (Minimi, Maximi, or MAG58)
>2 marksman
There’s at least one Manoeuvre Support Section in every Platoon and it’s a 12-man Section which always has 3 gunners with one of them always being a MAG58, sometimes with a tripod.

In our Infantry Battalion’s Support Company we have DFSW Platoon - Direct Fire Support Weapons, and that’s where we have MAG58s on tripods, .50 cals, 40mm GMGs, Carl Gs

Starving anorexic bongs were carrying MAG58s in Malaya in the 1950s as individual weapons systems. Rhodesians and South Africans did too.

>>64015836
Yes anon. I am sure that this purely doctrinal issue is not doctrinal and is instead a measure of physicality.
>M240 qualifies as a crew served weapon
>Doctrinally all crew served weapons are run by a Gunner and the A-Gunner
>Doctrinally its reserved for the weapons
Squad and not the maneuver elements

>>64008926
really set off the hornet's nest didn't you lmao

>>64008926
to be completely fair, this is inaccurate for certain very small parts of america (within the original 13 colonies specifically) but otherwise 1000000% accurate for the rest of the place. Mutts can cope and seethe.

>>64014603
>Sorry nigger, you have had two new constitutions: 1809 and 1974. Nice try but no cigar.

How many times have the US constitution been "amended"?

>>64010986
Maybe for you. I'm an immigrant and there are huge regional differences here in Texas let alone between say Texas and NM or Texas and Maryland.
>Houston is a very different thing to Austin or Dallas or San An.
>Hill Country and the Rio Grande are a universe apart and West Texas is even further apart.
And the Louisiana is right there just a couple hours away with all their swamp fuckery and Cajun nonsense. Okies and the emptyness of their souls. So on and so forth.

>>64016172
>Okies and the emptyness of their souls
bong here with very little knowledge of american regional cultures, what's the qrd here?

>>64016221
You know how the middle of Russia is just empy steppe and destitute villages with no prospect for improvement except joining the army?
It's like that, just with billboards about how abortion is a sin and advertisements for porno shops.
Also any town with more than 2,000 people in it will have at least four different flavors of evangelical churches, one of which has been converted from a shut-down roller skating arena, a variety of pawn shops, and drive-thru liquor stores.
Sonic and Braumd are pretty good though.

>>64016266
Fuck me I can't type, but yeah. Flat, scorching hot in the summer, cold in the winter.
Wildfires and ice storms that can never be reasonably dealt with due to emergency services consistently being an afterthought in state budget.
Awful indian drivers (feather, not dot) with tribal license plates.
Indian casinos are fun and occasionally have good barbecue, as long as you aren't an alkie with a gambling problem like my neighbor was (came home in a rage saying he was going to kill himself, wife gathered up the daughters and hid in a closet to call 911, they sent a couple of squad cars who promptly ventilated him)

>>64008901
>vast cultural differences between people in Oklahoma vs Minnesota.
It's all Fox News and Joe Rogan.

>>64016290
>wildfires
Look man, i fought prairie wildfires for years. That shit was all fine and dandy until the 70 mile an hour winds that took out the better part of a county yeets a still smoldering cow patty over the nearest road and starts it up again.

But yes, get out while you can.

>>64016311
>>64016290
Oh sorry, i thought you meant the plains in general. I was kansan.

>>64016221
Ignore >>64016266

It's just banter. The two states have a big rivalry. Oklahoma is nice just there isn't much money there anymore.

>>64016221
He thinks it's still the 1930s and that Oklahomans are riding around on horses and escaping the dust bowl.

>>64016344
The horses thing is a joke, but aren't you guys like a couple bad harvests from dust bowl 2?

>>64016358
Day of the Dust can't come soon enough.

>>64016361
Hey there's some good towns in oklahoma like Amarillo or Liberal. Wichita has some nice spots in it.

>>64016380
>Amarillo
Don't bait me so early in the morning.

>>64016392
Never actually visited only been thru, I currently have to fly there ocassionally to check on a plant in oklahoma and it just so happens to be the nearest airport. Plane always lands at night so its just plug in address and go in the rental. Is it a shithole?

>>64008901
Based kaycee refugger

>>64016290
>he was going to kill himself
>a couple of squad cars who promptly ventilated him
well that's great costumer service

>>64012950
>prepare to die
>starts at Oak Park
>entire west side is green
Get out.
>>64012966
Nobody gives a fuck, flyover.

>>64008971
So you have more?

>>64012950
There are only 2 good things in Chicago and that's the art museum and Jamie Paige. The rest of the city can be swallowed by the lake

>>64005792
Mexican marines also work for the cartels

>>64016669
They have a nice aquarium. I like looking at the fishies.

>>64008926
You're either a troll, or too stupid to learn given the tools at your fingertips. Either way I'm not going to interact with you in a civil manner because you don't deserve it.
Thus, I respond in a language you'll understand : Europeans are too stupid to cool themselves off in summer and therefore more Europeans die of heat every year than Americans die of gun shot wounds every year. So get fucked ya moron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7hcKKXQ1s

>>64004263 (OP)
Prolly a toss up between PLAN and the Saudis. Top down militaries are an insane concept to me

>>64004263 (OP)
Afghan army was useless, Iraqi Army wasn't TOOO bad if you rotated guys who were good and trained them, IP could even hold their own sometimes.

Polish, Aussies, and Brits were among the best.

Spanish soldiers were lazy, Koreans came in two flavors - career and doing my bid. Italians weren't too bad if you trained them before hand.

>>64007491
>>64005923
>>64005882
>>64005850
Yeah, I don't care if you are Rickey fucking Ranger, assigning one guy on patrol to put on 90-120 pounds for the patrol is fucking retarded, and isn't done. They learned from Iraq 1 even SAS couldn't hack that

>>64005882
I would believe you carrying 200-400 rounds, but even still this is you now

>>64011530
I love you guys but if I ended up in one of your Role 2s I'd get up, turn around 360 degrees and walk out even if I was missing a leg.
You kick a lot of ass in winter fighting though.

>>64004263 (OP)
Mali

>>64018377
Stupid of you to expose your rear like that.

>0w pay

>>64005604
Seconding Israel. The ones I've encountered were pretty fucking dull, and had marginal firearms handling skills. Kit was usually a fucking soup sandwich, and their weapons were often obscenely filthy or in poor shape.

>>64018421
You need to carve a bayonet socket into that.
I blasted diarrhea all over this stall.

>>64016266
Reminds me of south west jutland, except smaller so you're looking at 500 people across an area loosely designated a town with two weird denominational churches. Replace the billboards and panwshops with floodings and fog so thick you can see about 1m. Also it looks like this.

>>64007345
I knew a guy who had that happen, either it was from the IED which blew up the MRAP he was in, or he disconnected the headphones while disoriented, but either way he woke up hearing Avril Lavigne blasting from his iPod or phone or whatever device he was using. He swears he was listening to a soundtrack that just had Avril on there.

>>64009328
A big thing in American history is the whole self-reliant Jeffersonian yeoman farmer thing. It's like, I can do my own work, and think for myself. "I can do my own research." I don't need to take public transit, I know how to drive a car. Because you really did do your own research out on your farm in Tennessee or wherever. (This is also why I think guns are such a cultural value for many people, it's "I can defend myself" and goddammit you can't tell me I can't.) Basically the American revolution downgraded intellectual labor/activity and boosted manual labor on the social hierarchy so they'd be more on the same level. There is a core positive aspect to this because it was a rejection of the feudal world of Europe which had rigid class divisions. This also leads to hostility to "some class of experts out there telling me how to live" which is at the core of American populism. In my opinion though there are also negatives to that because the experts can be right about something and the masses wrong or just dumb or prone to conspiracy theories. The institutions and experts can be wrong too, or corrupt, of course.

You see this with Trump for sure, don't need to go into that, but on the left, Bernie's light version of socialism too has way more appeal than some Leninist "vanguard" party (which makes intellectual elitism a creed). Bernie talks about a cabal of "da one percent." Like a self-interested clique of elites trying to "get one over" on the common man. Americans respond to that more.

>>64014896
People fight for their tribe / clan there. Here's Iraqi CTS, you get the vibe:
https://youtu.be/CDtAmyOmOhw

>>64009954
>Israel
>I've seen a lot of posts that like them

Gee whiz, I wonder who could be behind these posts?

Incidentally I've never once heard of anyone actually liking an Israeli. Even American Jews tend to dislike them regardless of what they think about Israel as a concept.

>>64004263 (OP)
The Estonians were fucking retarded. I watched a medic truck driver run over the medic and the patient then get out and act like they just disappeared and try to drive away before he heard the screams.
>>64004282
11 yrs
$125
About 45 seconds. Theyre all simple line art religious symbols.

The FN MAG (or as you yanks call it, the M240) is the single greatest thing ever created by man

>>64005850
>they hated him because he told the truth
I have always been disgusted by how much retarded shit Americans carry in their marching and patrol order, but how little of the weight is taken up by ammo, water and rations. It actually boggles my fucking mind. Some literal fat fuck pog from a CSSB doing IMTs has a longer operational viability period in and out of contact than a USMC or Army grunt and I have never been able to comprehend why.

But, load lists aside, I enjoyed working with the Americans a lot. Did heaps with MRF-D in Darwin over, like, four of their rotations, and did a lot of stuff with Army, NG, USN, some special people. I think I liked working with USMC best because they were loosest and biased for action but still had assets to be useful with. Holy fuck their grunts were dumb though, like, endearingly stupid.

>>64019889
>Basically the American revolution downgraded intellectual labor/activity and boosted manual labor on the social hierarchy
Your understanding of colonial America is on par with a gorilla. You're so far off base it's not funny. Please read some primary sources instead of trying to retcon your (also poorly understood) 20th century Marxism into a different era.

>>64020400
PKM is better.

>>64021548
doesn't the M240 have like 5x lower MOA

>>64021551
Is it a MG or a DMR?

working with UKNLAF is humbling. brit marines and dutch marines go so fucking hard. absolute elite pros

>>64009447
Mogged

>>64010756
“Worlds” were not defined by development, they were defined by allegiance. I knew some dumbass would make that mistake. It is an archaism now that the USSR is gone and should not be used synonymously with “undeveloped, developing, and developed” although the correlation to “alliance with America” and being a nice country is telling. I can’t believe it’s use hasn’t been noticed and cancelled by blueskyers

The Philippines was a first world shithole. Austria was a Third World white paradise.

>>64015712
How is a nation surrounded by Muslim nations not ready to go full Sampson option at all times?

>>64016221
Paradise land like eternally 72°F California and large groups of money like in New York and New England seems to be how stupid liberal views incompatible with nature are able to breed and exist.

CONVERSELY: Literally every single county in Oklahoma voted Red the past dozen elections.

>>64012950
Ahh yes birthplace of the National Firearms Act of 1934.
Too bad they rebuilt after the fire.

>>64005868
Our entire war went better than your one battle with a bunch of turkroaches and we literally self-imposed an endgoal of not winning.

>>64005923
what a fucking pussy. i carried an entire Bradley in vest for sixteen miles

>>64007343
and that's the beauty of it

>>64008941
you care enough to reply. and not even with a smug anime girl

>>64021988
is it a gun or a firecracker?

>>64023483
I dunno, you stand there in front of it as I fire and you tell me.

>>64023176
>better than your one battle with a bunch of turkroaches
But we still won against the Turks, yeah Gallipoli was a shit show but Beersheba and Gaza III were the complete opposite

>>64012682
That's just really fucking sad.
Poor bastard has basically been conditioned to be a factory-farm animal, trapped in a concrete box with dozens of other people for their entire life.

>>64014603
Anon, a new constitution isn't a new government, it's just changing the laws to which they work. An actual change of government would be if they scrapped one model for an entirely new one, like going from a monarchy to a democracy.
Going by your rules, the current US government has only been going since 1965 since that's when black people were fully given the right to vote.