The best story I ever heard was from an ex Marine that I sometimes do jobs with.He was in the Marines for about 10 years between the Korean War and Vietnam.

Back when the US military controlled the Canal Zone there was a large reserve area used mainly for jungle survival training and he was going through some training course there.In this training at the end you got sent out on your own and had to find you way back to a location in limited amount of time in order to pass and you did not have any firearms.


As he was making his way through this section of jungle he heard this loud nose like a large animal or person moving through the brush and he called out thinking it was another Marine but got no answer so he knew what ever it was it was not a human and the noise was still approaching him so figured that it was a jaguar about to jump and grab him and he figured the best option was to charge right towards it and hopefully scare it away.So he starts running full speed towards the ever louder noise in bush and out comes a deadly..... armadillo :har:.Anyway after getting all worked up over an armadillo he sat there laughing for few minutes and kept on trekking his way through the jungle.

Oh yea? I bet that
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"Happened"


I'm being serious here though. I got military members in my family and they tell some of the best stories. Did any of you fight in a war? Some of the above posts mentioned 'Nam... :arrgh!:

I bet it is true to some extent August most likely was in Grenada and the 10th special forces(airborne) that's Airborne Rangers they did an air drop it was a successful operation but a bit "cluster ducky" for example officers had to make long distance calls to the Pentagon to request air strikes.

Nope I wasn't there. That was an 82nd Airborne and USMC show and they did a great job. What you're describing is the normal course of events in any conflict man has ever fought. Fighting a war is an enormously complex and chaotic operation with many pitfalls and plain bad luck. The best army is the one that can adapt, improvise and overcome the many problems that always crop up and still get the mission accomplished, which apparently is exactly what those officers you mention did. Kudos to them.

:salute:

Canadian Army, Field Artillery.
1980-2008

:salute: Thank you for your service.

I have the misfortune of being a 4F in the eyes of the military, so i can't join, or i most certainly would go into the navy.

Huh?
:o
Rangers are Rangers.
Special Forces are Special Forces (or the Green Berets if you prefer).

Royal Canadian Navy

HMCS Vancouver
HMCS Winnipeg

Soon to be Intel

UK

Royal Air Force, 1993 - 2005

Best days.

You know what they say about fairy tales and war stories...

German Army
Mechanized Infantry
2001-2002
(Just the ordinary 9 months service for draftees....and I was a pencil pusher which makes me the worst of the worst:D)

Any armed force that does not have some good NCOs and good middle range officers is not going to perform very well in my opinion.Those are the people that have to adapt when things go wrong which they always will.It does even have to be in combat either just with general operations there always seems to be a monkey wrench at least in my experience that has to be over come.

USN Submarine Force. Details below.

I wonder if there are many conscientious objectors here...:hmmm:

Depends on how you define it?

Absent of a draft, one could assume that everyone who chooses not to volunteer for service can be a conscientious objector.

It is tough being a conchie when there is no draft.

Right!

Wrong actually.. post your own thoughts and stop calling people out.

Interesting couple of PM's from folk who have been on IRC tonight.

Not wrong at all, I have previously stated I have served,not in this thread but in other threads and it should be known,so here you get the answer again, in the Swedish Navy in the years 1979-1984.And your service?

No comment.

I could be a consci but then again I have two wound scars to prove otherwise and there are people on this forum here who have seen them.

You've got some nerve, I have not questioned your wounds,and did not know this.