i found a sears and roebuck 12 gadge someone cut down and made custom wood furnature for. id usually be sad for someone butchering a now over 100 year old gun. but damn its just beautiful i had to buy it. and i measured it just legal length. i dont think i have a picture of it sadly and its far away locked in a safe cus army sucks and wont let me keep my firearms and i dont trust the armory.
im trying to remember what model it was but i cant. it has a pump release behind the trigger well in the form of a small tab and thats all i can do to identify it as all the furnature is hand made.
so i got a democrat black woman who one of my soldiers asked me to train with firearms, she is deadly scared of them even though he owns many (yes they are married). shes gotten more comfortable with holding them and knowing safeties I've taught her. I've been thinking about getting one of those dry fire laser trainer so she can get some "range time" well the ranges are shut down. any thoughts on that?
dont get me wrong id like to goto the range and show her real life. i was a RSO at SET guns and range and i have no qualms with tackling someone flagging and training first time shooters, that was our biggest demographic.
well one is russian 9x18 and the other is german 9x19 now if you wanna get into 9x17 (.380 ACP) was american then other then germany european. but it really ends with early exploration into firearms. repeating pistols had different loads for simple blow back that was necessary for design, weight, and usability.
but back then each government wanted to make the best ammo for where they were at and the manufacturing there for the world wars. and boom you got all different kinds of ammo. 7.7x58 jap, 7.62x54 russian, 7.62x51 .308 win, 7.92x57 mauser ect ect ect
then you get fanboys, i need a gun in 7.62x51 cus its what americans used in the war and its perfect ammo! so guns are made in that. even if awesome ammo like 7.62x38mmR are non-existant today theres still a rallying cry around old ammo made in many different countrys for a war thats 80 or 100 years old
i know canada is a meme of the worlds pacifists, but definately make some good arms and are bad ass in the world wars. i forget the town but in europe there is a town that puts out thousands of flowers for all the canadians that helped them in ww2 every year
well theres alot more to learn thats super cool, when i was young i ate up every forum that talked about ww2. but theres alot of cool ww1 and more and im still learning
yep so do modern ones, but the thing is is the transmissions are different from a passenger car. they can go over way higher obsticles, and cheepest contract always wins
but... goverment contracts mean big $$$ so a smartphone that costs 20 bucks today has more encription capability then a 2000$ army radio. now they got big antennas and it goes farther but attach that antenna to a cell phone and you got the army beat!
the patton on our uniforms is the easiest to break down, a standard pair of pants costs me 60 bucks at clothing and sales, if i bought a off brand close enough one id be spending 10 for better quality
a aircraft MFD (munti-funtion display) in green and white coloring costs the army over 30k. each. and there is 4/5. depending on the aircraft. if i got the processor and LCD display to recreate it id spend less the 100 bucks and it would be full color.
i was told pick 3 places overseas and in the us. i can tell you kansas isnt exactly my pick and ive been here 4 years. neither was Korea but got orders there.
sorry i was thinking about duty station after a short time you kinda dont care about basic, it almost seems cringy to talk about basic once you get to the duty staion. AIT teaches you nothing about your real job and each station is different anyways
and before you say haha aviation you guys are like the airforce of the army, our stupid fucking comanders have made us break records in field exercises and deployments cus they think we should be more like the infantry well the infantry a mile away from me laughs at my command saying they try to be "like us"
601st holds the record of the most amount of jumps in a field exercise, 8 in 7 days. yes we set up c-wire and command centers and camo netting and defensive positions 2 times in one day and every day once. as for deplyments we hold the record of transporting our gear getting the ship sealed in 4 days vs the regular 2 weeks we are allotted. infantry laughs at us cus they jump once in a week (minimal requirement) and take a week and ahalf to explore the shipping area and drink well transporting gear.
