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none of you guys been in the military?

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>>54896208
two months in cartagena( Murcia). not bad. simple

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Been a long time but its how I remember it-

12 weeks, its not very difficult.
First week is mostly assessments, medical and gear issuing
After that there's about 3 weeks of weapon handling, PT, close combat, how to use a radio and rifle marksmanship
Next 5 weeks is a lot of PT, some mental fuckery on how to behave, 1st aid, basic navigation and light support weapons
I think they might get allowed to throw grenades, play with bayonets and a lot of swimming in there too. Oh and drill, marching finally some days off if you're not a fuckup
Last 3 weeks was field exercises various team challenges, some in-field navigation, various practical fieldcraft and patrol exercises

Then they get their marching out and sent off to various places and your arse is owned by them. In my case I ended up in military college for about 18 months

>>54896208
why do you look like half-inbred-nigger?

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Normie get out...

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>54899608
Because that is what Straw Boss is

Tough, but manageable. 3.5 months basic, 3.5 months advanced.

Would have preferred more time on my specialty, but eh.

How do people with obvious ASPD do in boot camp? I heard they break down a fucking ton

>>54896536
>>54896208
Yeah, I spent 9 weeks at Ft. Leonard Wood, literally getting lost in the woods

Then I spent about 17 weeks getting trained to do medic shit and I've been an infantry platoon medic for 3 years ever since

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>>54898498

>>54896208
We basically practice hockey fighting then apologize

going into the navy senpai

fun fact: nz has the 4th largest EEZ in the world

>tfw looked up the military basic training mininum test results
>40 pushups in 2 minutes
>something lie 50 situps in 2 minutes
I couldn't do either of these. I got around 35 pushups and something similar in situps.

Fuck m8

>>54896208
1 year as conscript.

Cleaning officer's houses, mowing their lawn, sleeping in the forest with no tents, giving 50% of my salary to the sergeant or he would rape me.

>>54896208
10th mountain?

>>54903668
That's the minimum, but you're expected to far exceed that.
42 I believe is the minimum for my age group for push ups but if I do any less than 60 they basically call me a piece of shit who isn't trying hard enough

>>54903793
Yeah, since it's on his left shoulder, which is where your unit patch is worn. If it's on the right it means that's the unit who deployed with

>tfw deployed with SF but Sergeant Major won't let us wear their patch, we have to wear our shitty 3rd ID broken tv patches instead

im gonna go to OCS soon
maybe i should just try to go for FMF corpsman, that would be fucking great

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>>54903762

Uncle and step-father were in the army. They say jungle training is pretty much hell, hot, shitty conditions and you had to get your own food and manage to get back to the base in 5 days.

GIGS is the most fucked one, 8 weeks of pure hell, you don't sleep, barely eat and it's physical torture all the time. Lots of "recruits" died on it. People from foreign armies go there to get trained as well, they barely pass.

>>54903762

lol what a pussy.

Did they also "estrearam" you?

>>54904201

fug, weren't supposed to quote the first one.

>>54904201
>They say jungle training is pretty much hell
Pretty much what everyone says about jungle training from what I've read or heard.

Constantly wet and hot, foot infections issues from wet feet, rashes and skin infections from being wet and chaffing, and then having to fend off venomous snakes and insects all the while.

>>54904312
Apparently the Army's jungle course gives a tab that can be worn, just like the sapper and ranger tabs, but I have yet to see a single person with it

>>54904312

Yeah, like i said the CIGS is the most fucked one, i think it's the worst one in the world. Only sargeants and other high ranks can do it. Armies of the world send them there to train, including US army. I think no more than 300 people had passed the course in 40 years of existence.

http://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/guerra-na-selva/platb/

It's in portuguese but it gives the idea.

>>54904438
i dont think we have a jungle course anymore.
they should reopen it with the whole pacific shift

>>54904441

>3000 people
>50 years

ftfy senpai.

can I suck the cock of that fine armed man on the pic?

>>54904488
They still do, there was an article in the Army Times about it and how they're giving out tabs for people that have passed it

what's the age cut off point for basic training

And how bad was it?

>>54905039
39 if I remember correctly, or maybe 35

>>54903668
>>54904092
Topkek. 40 pushups is easy as shit

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What's the gayest military branch?

>>54905089

Navy by far.

I think I can do the pushups and situps, 50 in 2min

but 7 pull ups in a row I dont even think I can do 3.
send help.

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Good people. Leftards hates them.

>>54905157
no way, the marines are homoerotic as fuck

>>54905427

Nah, sailors i think desu.

They always had "that look" you know.

>>54896208
kelly?

>>54905378
>south america military
>good
statist detected

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>>54905528

Problem :^)

>>54905528
what would you propose instead of states? ;)

>>54904312
>Constantly wet and hot, foot infections issues from wet feet, rashes and skin infections from being wet and chaffing, and then having to fend off venomous snakes and insects all the while.

Everything rots
After about 10-14 days, you begin to rot too!

>>54905528
I think he meant "good" by how they dress like Call of Duty and take staged pictures to impress teenagers like him.

>>54904488
>>54904669

What's the point?

How does spending a few days in a jungle prepare most of our army to combat the threats they will most likely face?

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>>54905616

>we've been rotting our whole lives

>>54904488
We muhreens have one in Okinawa. I didn't go, my friends did, and yeah just a week of awfully rotting away as he described it.

>>54905702
Jungle warfare training is more of a third world thing these days.

USA can simply equip everything with FLIR and not worry about jungles anymore.

>>54896536
>>54896208
I currently serve in the swiss army, air force troops. Basic training took 7 weeks here. To be honest, it wasn't that though. But we aren't the infantrymen at the front in case of an attack on our country. I now work on the communication systems and get a good bit of knowledge.

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These are bad moments from the whole service:

-Unit trains rangers and recon switching every few years. Recon guys have the latest toys military has to offer. Us rangers get nearly all equipment from the 80's because apparently "we'll die anyway".

-Regional Office messes up and sends too many new conscripts to the unit. Instructors don't send anyone back initially but just increase BS level. After six moths (half way for me) over 40% have been send away due to reasons ranging from stress fractures to psychological problems. HQ gets angry.

-Training different movement styles in a sand pit because why not. Crawling for hours in the sand. At the end of the day everyone has road rash in their arms, legs and stomach and some are bleeding. Unit's nurse almost runs out of gauze and bandages.

-Instructor throws satchel charge at us to see how fast we take cover.

-At live fire exercise. Everyone should sleep at least six hours a night. Nope. We spend our nights burning wet leaves and twigs in a big bonfire because the training area needed to be tidied up. Combat shooting feels a bit unsafe when you are about to fall asleep.

-In the woods. Someones ruck isn't properly camouflaged. Team is ordered to move our supply stash from point A to point B and back in the middle of night. After 20km and hundreds of kgs of equipment moved back and forth, everyone has properly camouflaged rucks.

-Cleaning the barracks. A bit of cosmic dust is found undera a bed. Repeat cleaning 10 times every evening.

-There's still more cosmic dust. Our room is seized because "we can't keep it clean enough". Everyone sleeps outside.

-In the woods for the Nth time. Not even the rainsuit is waterproof. It's December, sleet pouring horizontally for a week and temperature is around 0C. All clothes are wet after two days. Nothing burns in the tent stove. Near the end no one bothers with the tent anymore and sleeps in wet clothes under some big spruce. Whole body hurts for a month afterwards.

Etc.

>>54896536
I'm leaving for basic next month.

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>>54907576

>>54905528
he said good people

Not LE SO AWESOME COMMANDOS WIN ALL WARS

>>54907576
I can recognize some of these scenarios.

>>54896208
I once went to a military camp in Mexico and they did the zipline thing (they wanted me to try it but I was scared) and they would run all around the place with their rifles. I was 6 at the time so I don't remember much.

>>54905564
>American equipment

Nope. No problem here.

>>54909500
>American equipment

You think those companies that makes this weapons care about nationality?
Hell if the U.S ever goes to war with another country, those companies are willing to supply both sides.