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hello again you bunch of civilian maggots :P
So far its been fun here in the army, did our first semi long march in kit yesterday. By in kit i mean in full uniform with flak jackets, heavy combat harness and our AK4's, 22kg in all, ohyeah, my full kit weights about 60k in all, thats what i'll be carrying on my so called soldiers march in 7 weeks for two days while having to complete various challenges. 10 miles through rough ground, swamps, up and down hills, through and along rivers and runing along a tarmac road for two kilometers. Neart the end we crawled through a drain runijg bellow a road that stank worse than Valek who hasnt had a shower for a few weeks and when we got back to battalion we took a walk through a lake on territory before runing (in my case limping because i ****ed up my left knee somewhat a few weeks ago) back to our barracs to get as much water out of our kit as possible in 2 minutes, then puting on flipflops and getting topless to do weapon maintenance, followed by getting our gear ready to dry and THEN a hot shower because our maintenance lis goes gun->gear->self. Ohyah, im in the recon company, the one with the highest physical and mental demands. To smoke we have to do pushups, occasionaly in kit, so expect me to be ripped by the time im done. |
I wish you'd gone in with your old haircut :p
Good to hear Estonia is in safe hands |
Sounds like everything is working out for you:up:
Keep up the good work, it all gets easier once you're out of bootcamp. |
I can not say for sure if you will have fun but I can say the army will try your will. My brother-in-law went into the army straight out of high school. Did he enjoy it? Not really, it was not his cup of tea. Was he better off after boot camp? Yes, in many ways. He was better off for it in the long run. Good luck to you and your start in the army. You never know, this could be the career for you. :up:
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Here's a tip from an old grunt. In practice carry an extra 5 pounds in your ruck and remove it before your soldiers march. It will help alot.
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All I remember from my military service is a LOT of beer, training, getting deployed and spending 52 hour staring through a rifle scope at desert rocks.
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Watch that leg, you will need it more after the seven weeks is over. Go Recon!:rock: |
I admit I hate being a civilian maggot:D Keep up the good work and forget about the whiners, even though they will cause extra PT and stuff, they will ween themselves out and later in AIT things go a lot saner than what happens in Basic Training.:up:
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Hello again.
This week is focused arround our second service weapon, the KSP-58 machine gun, yanks use it under the designation M240. 11.6kg of pure sexings. Easy to field strip and maintain, but because ours are old and ****ed up they will cause loads of problems with misfires and some had ****ed up safety catches which could cause runaway fire. All in all it is pretty nice here, exept for forrest weeks. our first forrest week it rained 24/7, my knee is giving me hell and recon does'nt sleep in tents, so we were wet, cold and miserable all the time, but at least in the forrest we are not limted to 3 cigarettes a day and we do not have to do pushups to smoke. But because some *******s in my platoon have disipline problems we had to do 20 pushups in full kit with backpakcs, 58kg of extra weight for me :woop: Anyway our next forrest week begins on sunday, a 15 km march in full kit, the march back will be arround 28km when we are all soaked to the bone, should be a hell of a good time. |
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Sounds like good fun :up: Those KSP-58s of yours sound like the 7.62 Kvkk 62s(Finnish design) we had: *Prrt* -> clear stoppage -> *Prrt* -> clear stoppage... |
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second forest week over, both knees ****ed, good to be back at batallion. This forrest week we practiced movement when in contact with the enemy, gas alerts, the Harris UHF radio stations, AT weapons and we sighted in our rifles. got to fire 55 rounds of 7.62x51mm FMJ, was fun and i did pretty good, 10 rounds in a 1" group at 150m prone though they were not in the centre of the target, didnt take into account that i hav to aim lower as the lowest sight seting is for 200m, in a 2" group from 100m kneelng and the same result standing up at 50m, the AK-4(G-3) has a really pleasant recoil, kind of like a sharp jab followed by a pushing force. Anyhow i can put 5 rounds down range and on target in less than that ammount of seconds when in the prone position with my rifle supported by something. Allso now i dont even notice the weight of my rifle, flak jacket and stuff, though the backpack marches are still a pain. Allso we got really lucky with the weather this time arround, no rain and full moon at night which lit up everything nicely, but we were nigh on innvisible, you would be ammazed at how well camo works when properly done, unless you have experienced it.
Anyway my manlines has grown arseloads, i can survive a week in the woods and we dont even have a bloody tent:arrgh!: |
Almost makes me miss humping the hills, as it were :D
I enjoyed my basic training, it was painful at the time but by god it was worth it! Not bad groupings, either!! |
Now for some bad news, two weeks ago I underwent an MRI scan of my left knee because it has been a pain in the arse for a while. The results are in, there is some carthilage damage so I might be forced back into civilian life by christmass:down:
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Sorry to hear it, boss. The best thing to do is keep a "can-do" attitude and make that knee get better. Even if that fails, no man can say that you didn't do your duty.
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Hopefully they will offer me the chanse to stay, but I have more good news. One idiot in my platoon decided to run off so we havent slept in two nights, there is a headcount every hour, 24 hours a day. Allso there is a blizzard so we have to clean the roads on batallion every two hours, all good things coming together at once.
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What's so funny Morts? Do you have snow in Denmark, and by snow I don't mean the stuff that comes from Colombia? :)
Sorry to hear about your knee antikristuseke, as I wrote earlier those things can be serious. Although it may feel bad at the moment you would be smart to think about your long-term health first and military second. The military doesn't need guys with one functioning leg, you know. Also they don't want you to ***k up your leg and be an invalid for the rest of your life, in a case like that they might end up having to pay your hospital bills and they don't want to do that. So take care and put your health first. You can always go back and continue your service once you're healed up, I think. |
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