What the fuck is air?
omg.
Seriously? A public affairs unit and this is the best they can do? If you are going to celebrate being a POG, at least be good at your job.
Who knew that my mom would be more welcoming to me joining the Marines than my dad.
Everyone in my family ignores me when I bring up the military. They think that because I’m going to college that I need to get a desk job or something. Join up, man. I have a few friends going to basic here in a month or so for the Marine Corps.
^Marines have Boot Camp, Army has Basic, Navy is RTC or Recruit Training Command, and Air Force has Summer Camp
^ Hey, don’t disrespect the Air Force. It is a sleep away camp and not always in the summer. They can’t go home until camp is over. Sometimes their camp counselors yell at them.
omfg i’d buy that
It would be great if it actually smelt like napalm, but I don’t know what this perfume or actual napalm smells like, but it’d be cool anyway. I do like the smell of fresh gasoline tho.
^^ It smells like victory.
Happy Armed Forces Day
This is for the people currently serving. Veterans Day is for those that have served and Memorial Day is for those that are no longer with us. Today celebrates those serving now.
April, 2004, the front page of the Tulsa World News. A journalist tagged along on a village assessment in Kandahar Province. I tried to stay out of shots, but they caught me. I am the guy in the back with the tan baseball camp. We had females on missions long before FET and other military ideas.
WARNO for Poolees/Future Service members.
> You don’t get to talk shit about anyone in the Service, just because you’re some RAH RAH motivated future something.
>You are not in the Service.
>You do not get to harp on anyone for their MOS/Component. Only we can do that. We EARNED our uniforms.
> You have not experienced anything yet.
Gonna be = Never was. You have done exactly the same as the person that has never done anything. Which means no trash talk for you. A future Soldier is not tougher than future Sailor. And for sure a future Marine isn’t shit to an actual service member. Sit down, wait your turn, earn it and then join us.
Are you troll fodder?
If you get sucked into their BS, the answer is no. Someone posts that they want to kill a soldier and give it a bunch of military tags. Then they get a bunch of responses. Congrats, you fed a troll.
This person is not going to go to sleep scared that a bunch of military people called him out. He is going to laugh with all his buddies about how he got a rise out a bunch of idiots.
I saw the post reblogged and it didn’t seem right to me. For fun I clicked on the URL and it took me four seconds to see it was a BS profile. They didn’t even put time into making it pretty. The description pretty much says it is a troll site.
If you got sucked in by that crap you are a sucker. Real troops don’t have the time to care about every single troll. Real troops don’t try to prove themselves to trolls. And most important of all, a real patriot knows that everyone has the freedom to say what they want, even if it is asinine and stupid. Yes, that includes the Westboro Baptist Church. Freedom of Speech means everyone, not just the people we agree with. That isn’t real freedom. The worst thing you can do to people like this is ignore them and encourage other people to ignore him as well. That is what I am doing.
Why it is stupid to ask a vet how hot it was
While it is a good question to ask why it is a stupid question, asking how hot it was overseas is itself a stupid question. It is like asking a scuba diver how wet it was underwater.
Afghanistan and Iraq are desert environments. Not knowing the desert is hot in the summer is like not knowing water is wet or that space is vast. You can look the temperature online, so I always discussed the heat in multiples of “damn.” While not an official unit of measure, it got the message across. On average, Afghanistan was three damns hot. Or damn, damn, damn hot.
It can be difficult to imagine 120 degree heat. While people know that soldiers carry a lot of gear, it is never brought up that it is not just heavy, it is tight fitting. This makes it hot by the additional exertion needed to haul the armor and gear around, but it also traps the heat in. Now they have those cool shirts that are basically t-shirts with uniform sleeves, it sucked wearing full uniforms with flack vests. It was like wearing a twenty pound sweater inside of a sauna.
It is even hot at night in the summer. You sweat and shiver at the same time. Sweating because it is 95 degrees and the body is overheating but shivering because it was 130 degrees in the day and that is a huge temperature difference.
So yes, it was fucking hot. The fact that it was hot did not stop us from doing missions. You kind of put it out of your mind and get to the task at hand. In the picture, the Major wanted to get his people outside the wire. We took them to a village and his troops built the floor in the school we are standing on.
As PSYOP, we have exception to policy so I dropped all gear except the bare minimum. When we got back, I was told the mercury topped 140 degrees while we were out. So yes, it is hot. It is hot as two rats fucking in a wool sock on a cast iron skillet. That is why any question about the heat is stupid. Oddly enough, no one asks about the cold. The desert gets really cold in the winter.
The M60 in it’s original configuration also known as “The Pig”
US Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62mm NATO, M60 and M60E1
Bridge Tool & Die Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, and Inland Manufacturing Division of General Motors, Dayton, Ohio
7.62x51mm NATO
The M60, with it’s modified successor the M60E1, was the standard squad general purpose machine gun of the United States Army. It was designed during the last years of the 1950’s and had been in service since the early 1960s. The M60 is interesting in that it uses the feed system of the German MG42 and the bolt and locking system of the FG42, an impressive example of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Much expense and effort went into producing the gun which in its original form barely justified the work. Despite its illustrious forebears, the original M60 had some serious drawbacks, the most noticeable of which was the barrel change. Each barrel had its own gas cylinder and bipod attachment to it-but no handle. It was, therefore, not only an expensive item but also unnecessarily heavy and dangerous to handle when hot. An asbestos glove formed part of the gun’s equipment, and since the bipod vanished with the barrel, the poor gunner had to hold the gun up in the air while the barrel was changed.
The later M60E1 had a simpler barrel with the gas cylinder and bipod fixed to the gun, and it also has a handle for barrel changing. There were other less important changes which brought the M60E1 more into line with current practice, and it gave it improved reliability. A feature of both models was the Stellite lining to the barrels which prolonged their lives beyond that normally experienced with unprotected steel, and both models had a constant-energy gas system to work the piston.
Length: 43.5in (1.10m). Weight unloaded: 23lb 3oz (10.51kg). Barrel: 22.04in (560mm), 4 grooves, right-hand twist. Magazine: Disintegrating link belt. Cyclic Rate: 550 rds/min. Muzzle velocity: 2805ft/sec (855 m/sec).
My source is ”Military Small Arms of the 20th century 7th edition”
I don’t care what anyone says. I still prefer the pig over the 240.
Seems legit. I knew an E-7 that said anyone that says you shouldn’t volunteer for anything in the military is stupid because you volunteered to join so you already screwed that one up.
May 10 is Military Spouse Appreciation Day
No, seriously. The president made an official proclamation.
It’s been around for 20 something years. Don’t act like it’s the first time it’s happened.
I am not, I am stating a fact. “May 10 is Military spouse appreciation”
“The president made an official proclamation.”
Nowhere do I say it was “invented” i just made an announcement. Just like when if you say “today is my birthday” does not mean it is your first ever birthday. It is a yearly announcement. Did you click on the link? It was dated yesterday.
When you come at me snarky, you get mockery back.
May 10 is Military Spouse Appreciation Day
No, seriously. The president made an official proclamation.
One of the coolest recruiters, doing what recruiters do. An add on to things you see at the office
What kind of crap is this? And a recruiter no less. Someone needs to find out which recruiting station this is and go there and square this Marine away. There is no way that haircut is regulation. It is too long in the front and almost touches the collar in the back. I hope someone fixes that quickly.
