What was the difference between these 3 things in Vietnam?
Were all LRRPs referred to as Rangers or were there Army LRRP teams alongside the 75th Rangers? Were Rangers employed entirely as LRRPs in Vientam? Were all LRRPs formed from airborne units?
Was RECONDO a qualification anyone could do or was it THE LRRP course?
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All LRRPs are Rangers, the 75th are also Rangers. The 75th still functioned as a light unit, not just as reconnaissance teams.
Not all LRRPs were formed from airborne units, they were designed as advanced reconnaissance elements organic to their larger organizations.
Recondo school was the in-country LRRP school, you had to be selected/try out to go, and the final test was a live combat patrol. You couldn't just take some time off your tour to do the school, if you went to Recondo it's because you were going to be on the teams.
There was also still ranger school at Benning, but the Recondo course was considered the "real thing" and guys who only went to Benning were not as highly regarded amongst other LRRP team members.
t. Former LRS team member
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I read a book of someone who did RECONDO. It was a school anyone could go too. It was the only live action combat school I ever read about in the US armed forces. The final field test had real VC on the trails trying to kill you.
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>>29742705
>Were Rangers employed entirely as LRRPs in Vientam?
no
Were all LRRPs formed from airborne units?
no
I used to know a man who was LRRP during Vietnam and he was Marine. The guy had some real balls and great stories. I mean they didn't even carry guns many times since the report would give them away so they would fight hand to hand with knives if they came in contact. Fuckers had balls.
Looking for a shotgun that will stop a bear or other heavy animal
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1. Mossberg 500
2. Rifle would be more useful
You're talking about getting in a situation where you're being mauled by a very large moving animal or hunting, either of which would be better served by both longer range and higher capacity
FAL is your only option
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>>29742592
Literally any twelve gauge.
Semi>pump>multi barrel>single barrel
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>>29743009
this
also are you planning on keeping it in a truck? ATV? stuffing it into a rucksack? or leaving it near the front porch of a cabin?
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>Got to Bastion/Leatherneck.
"Hi guys welcome, I know you all did an extensive pre deployment package but we are going to run you though a week of the same training in theater because we didn't get the paperwork though."
> The internal security guys are actually short on manpower so half of you are going to man check points inside the base and never leave, you guys over here can do that. Enjoy.>Got to Bastion/Leatherneck.
"Hi guys welcome, I know you all did an extensive pre deployment package but we are going to run you though a week of the same training in theater because we didn't get the paperwork though."
> The internal security guys are actually short on manpower so half of you are going to help the MP's man check points inside the base, doings internal patrols and never leave, you guys over here can do that. Enjoy.
>Hey the base is shutting down and you're going home in 2 weeks but we forgot that all this equipment is going to Kandahar and the MP's said you've done a great job on internal security and their short on manpower over there so half of you are going with it. You might not be home for Christmas or New year like we told you you would be two days ago.
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>Hey welcome to kanadhar, your duties will consist of sitting on this roof making sure these helicopters don't go anywhere. You might get to go home in 4 weeks or 3 months we don't know
>Turn up for shift one night- all the helicopters gone. "Oh yeah they've all gone now did no one tell you? Since your not busy guarding them mind guarding the entrance to the accommodation lines, Prince Harry is coming down in two days by the way and everything's got to be tight"
>Finally going home - "Sorry too many people on this flight, but we're are putting you on another one that leaves in 2 hours get packing. Sorry that flight was incorrectly loaded and you can't get on it and the next flight is two days away and stops in the UAE"
>In the UAE you have to wait at this base for your connecting flight we'll keep your kit stowed here. Oh sorry the plane blew an engine and your here for another 2 days, no you can't get your kit back. Flights here but we are making three stop offs on the way.
That tour felt like it would never end.
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>>29742427
Not mine but my uncle's.
Here come the feels.
>Be Uncle
>18, at time of Vietnam War, around 1970
>Drafted
>Goes to basic and gets hazed to high hell
>But it's fine, he was pretty hardy
>At the end, he got shipped over to Vietnam
>Helicopter Gunner
>When he got there it was complete chaos
>Pretty much ordered to kill every single person he saw
>Civvies included
>The fact that he's a gunner too means that you probably have a higher chance of surviving than the guys you're dropping off
>It eats away at him
>One day he's assigned to a patrol, but takes leave
>His best buddy takes it instead for him
>The Huey is shot down
>He learns of it after
>Completely devastated and feels guilty of his death
He still takes responsibility to this day
>Finishes tour without getting hurt
>But ends up with pretty bad PTSD
>Never really dealt with it
A few years later
>Take him to Vietnam memorial in D.C.
>He finds his friend's name
>Completely breaks down
>He never forgot, and never will
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http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Indias-Biggest-25-Billion-Defence-Deal-to-Crash-Land/2016/04/24/article3396450.ece
>IAF claims developed engine of FGFA was not reliable
>Inadequate radar and stealth features
>Huge cost over-run
>India’s reduced share. Lack of participation by IAF in the design phase
>IAF apprehensive that Russia will not share technology
If India pulls out, the production volume will pretty much halve, driving up costs for Russia.
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>>29742305
POO
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>>29742305
still cheaper than the stealth lemons in MURRICA
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>>29742581
oh sick burn
>buying anything but brown bear
Are silver and golden really that much better?
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I buy silver bear soft points, never had a problem.
Golden bear is ok but i'd say just stick to silver and save the dollar or whatever.
I have not used brown bear so i cannot speak to it.
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>>29742100
>Doesn't know Wolf is the same thing as brown bear.
>at a cheaper price
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>>29742100
Forgive my ignorance but what makes this stuff better or different than wolf or tula? I've run a few boxes of this stuff but it was years ago.
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Post proof that your government is afraid of its citizens
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>>29742052
This exists
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>>29742069
First post, best post.
All of these things are completely legal.
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>>29742052
I actually want to go down there and buy one of those things
$1000 isn't honestly that bad for a mini CNC
Obviously the capabilities are limited, but meh
And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than 3d printed garbage
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I am a regular patron over at the hood corner store. I just happened to shove a gun into my waistband before I headed over.
Some of the black nurses that I see in the area pulled up into the parking lot and I started chatting with them. As we were talking, a group of 10 people came up to the store on foot, looking shady. As I was talking to the nurses, one of them says that group of people is looking at you and talking about you, just a heads up. I told them thanks and went into the store. I was like I ain't worried and raised my shirt, exposing my pistol. All the nurses gave me the thumbs up.
So I go into the store and get my shit and leave. I'm walking out of the parking lot when a couple people from that group approach me for directions and some money. I told them I was fine and needed to leave. This made them mad and they started to follow me. I walked to my house and went through the front gate and onto my porch. They actually came to my property line and they said "are you SURE you don't have money?" I told them no and to go away. One of them had the balls to actually open my gate. I raised up my shirt and showed them the pistol in my waistband and told them to fuck off. However they are still hanging out in the area by my house.
Did I do anything wrong? Also, should I be in a defensive mindset?
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>>29741926
>Did I do anything wrong?
I don't think so.
>Also, should I be in a defensive mindset?
Yes.
>(What should I do?)
Write down their descriptions.
Size (how many)
Activity (from corner store to now)
Location (right now)
Uniform (how are they dressed generally AND what are they each specifically wearing, heights, complexion, etc)
Time (how long have they been following/waiting now)
Equipment (Idk I'm just using an old grunt acronym)
Then call the cops on 'em. Stay on the phone with dispatch while watching hoodlums out the window because the hoodlums will walk off, it's your job to tell dispatch what direction they are headed towards so unit can intercept.
Also, tell dispatch that they were threatening that "you better give them your money." It's a paraphrase that will actually turn their night from a "this white nigga at this house" to a "cops stopping us." This is good for you because if the COPS are the last issue they had then it won't naturally be YOU who was the last issue they had.
And OP, hurry up. Time's ticking.
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>>29741926
why were you even born?
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>>29741926
>flashing your pistol
>displaying confidence via the pistol like it's a magical amulet that protects you from harm instead of treating the pistol as an extension of your confidence and competence
>not finding a way to create a situation where you would be justified shooting every goddamn one of them for the good of your community
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Ive been reading all of these story threads and wanted to hear a story not so depressing or creepy.
So what stupid shit did /k/ do as a kid.
ill start
Be me middle school, i spend the weekend at my best friends house, he invites some of his other friends over as well. a total of 6 of us.
>its get to be about 11pm when his parents go to bed.
>we wait til 12 and sneak out his window.
>we walk around neighbor hood just shootin the shit.
>we walk into a cul-de-sac, some guy left his convertible out with the top down.
>friends decide they want to shit on this guys car.
>we go back to his house and get toliet and my friend shits in a box
>we carry toliet paper and shit box back to the convertible.
>Friend then smears the shit on the convertible windshield and tosses the box into the drivers seat.
>one of the other guy climbs on top of another car squats and spray liquid shit every where.
>that guy wipes toilet paper and washes his hand with hand sanitizer.
>now we are bored again so we walk around to the very end of the neighbor hood.
>highschool kids are having a graduation party
>best friend walks up and ask for beer, party bro says "no can do, we are running low."
>whatever.jpg
>we go stalker and start sneaking around the house and looking in windows.
>we to an opened window.
>a couple is have sex
>two of the guys im not friends with but im hanging out with tonight find some water bottles and piss in them.
>Nope.jpg
>i decide im not par for the course and start to walk back before that shit can unravel.
>get half way back
>"pss...pss,pss, come here"
>one of the guys from my group is hiding behind a house.
>walk over like its nothing.
>he is freaking out
>"what the fuck anon, we being chased hide"
>i say "bullshit"
>he tells me they threw the piss bottles in the window and they burst all over the sexy couple.
>ohshit.jpg
>i dont see anyone or hear anyone else so i assume we are far ahead of the highschoolers.
continued.
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>>29741837
I used to go innadesert every day from like 8-13 years old and my legs and ankles are permanently scarred by all the cholla cactus I used to get stuck by.
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there better be some fucking guns in this story
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>>29741837
part 2
>we go full black ops, jumping fences, crawling checking every corner.
>all of sudden the guy im with says "oh shit, run anon!"
>we start running
>the rest of our group finds us and is now running with us.
>My best friend does this awsome leap of a bush while running but then lands on stump.
>squeals like hurt dog.
>fuck me and dude from before pick him up and put his arms on our shoulders so he can run with his good foot while we support him.
>we are almost home free.
>turn the corner into culdesac my best friend lives but right when we turn the corner his neighbor motion sensitive flood light cut on and our location is completely blown.
>fuckfuckfuck.jpg
>we get to my best friends house, everyone but me jumps through the window as we hear the tires of the highschoolers car screech into the neighbor hood.
>i try to jump through window and i cant im too fat to into the window.
>Best friends is try to pull my winny the pooh ass through but i tell him to stop and i run to the tree line a few feet from the house.
>light in the window goes out as i dolphin dive into the dewey wet underbrush of the woods.
>the car swings in and drive around the culdesac then stops right right in front of the woods im hiding in.
>*car window rolls down*
>*a cloud of smoke rolls out*
>im shitting my self.
>what feels like 10 minutes goes by but is probably just minute as i stare at this window waiting for something to happen.
>*window rolls back up and leaves*
>i watch it go out of sight then i go back to the window my friends jumped through.
>now the blind is down and the light is on.
>i peak through a hole in the blind, the door to the hallway is open.
>everyone but my friend is pretending to sleep on the floor of the room.
>I decide i would wait for my friend to come back before i knocked.
>5 minutes go by.
>my best friends mom walks to the open door and peers in before going back to her room.
>best friend comes back into the room and cracks the window.
cont.
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Holy fuck the T-34 is so fucking hot...
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>>29741811
ooohoho baby
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mmmm fuck...
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i think im going to cum
>Tfw you wear glasses/contacts
>lose precious seconds struggling to find and put on your glasses in the case of a breaking before reaching for handgun in the nightstand.
Are there any real solutions?
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>>29741797
Practice shooting without them?
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>>29741797
eye surgery if it is an option will save you money in the long run tbqh senpai
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>>29741797
Buy a shotgun, you don't even need to aim
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Should the mentally ill and the criminally insane be allowed to have the same second amendment rights as anybody else does or should they not have the second amendment rights and be barred from it?
Also just to add on to this when I say mentally ill and criminally insane I mean people like antman for example should people like antman for instance have the second amendment rights or not?
Also if it is a yes but they must prove themselves then what should the person undergo and should they join the military in order to restore their second amendment rights?
Please no hate messages I'm genuinely curious about the majority opinion of the weapons board.
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>>29741602
The only one that should be barred from owning guns is antman and you op
Your both equally faggots
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SHALL
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>>29741649
NOT
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Last one died
Primary?
Secondary?
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>>29741513
Waifu comes as a bonus.
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>>29741583
Export a civilian model RK95 already you autistic snow mongols!
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Fuck I want to be early in the thread but I'm in bed and my safe is on the other side of the house
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Shot a glock 17 for the first time today
Trigger was consistent, but stiff. the grip was more slim than i expected.
i think i still prefer the p226 and 92fs for target shooting, although i understand why glocks are popular carry guns
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Thats nice honey
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ITT: stories that actually happened
lets see how many /k/ actually has
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Why do some countries use battle rifles instead of assault rifles?
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>>29741436
Price of using what's available for guns and ammo versus going through a complete outfitting.
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>>29741436
manly men as opposed to weak cucks that can't shoot full sized cartridges.
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>>29741436
Because there full of real men.
Ar's or Barbies for men
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Hello again /k/ haven't been here in quite a few months but I have a dilemma that I'm hoping one or some of you, could give me a yea or nay on.
The coin flip is about the "Bersa Thunder Pro Ultra Compact" chambered in .40
Let me start by saying I've never considered getting a .40 prior to fondling this particular one in my hands. I've shot one before in .45 thanks to a cool stranger on the range. I wasn't crazy about it or how I shot with it. However I liked it enough I'm considering getting it's counterpart. Mainly because I spotted a used one for 300 and some change after tax. Is it worth it?
TL;DR
Reliability, pros/cons, are they in any way shape or form similar to a Hi-Point? These are my questions to you, thanks!
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I have a Bersa thunder 9. Is very reliable, it eats ammo that even my glock 17 would refuse.
Cons: the magazines are not very rugged, as in, if you drop them too much, they will break.
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>>29741365
>Is it worth it?
No. If anything, get a 9mm. You're a retard if you buy a shoehorned .40
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>>29743369
>it eats ammo that even my glock 17 would refuse