Operator Thread - Oldschool Edition:

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This is a thread I can get behind.

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This dude is the most badass Swede in all of history. Never forget.

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>>31609328
This is what the US military projected the future to be like half a century ago. Kind of like that "Future Soldier" project that spawned the OICW.

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>>31609235

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>>31609346

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>>31609235
One of my favorites. József Tibor Fejes, with an AK he stole from the Soviets during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Probably one of the first non-Russians to fire one.

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>>31609354
Not sure if you'd consider these guys "operator," but whatever. Rad picture that's exemplary of the time, so I'll post it.

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>>31609350

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>>31609369
These spearheaded the American advance into Kuwait and Iraq during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

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>>31609384

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>>31609390
I don't know the context of this one or the one I'm going to post next, but they're cool.

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>>31609403

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Probably one of my favorite retro SF pics out there.

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>>31609419
This was a civilian helicopter used by the CIA to insert guys into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

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>>31609474
Cut-down shotguns, M1 carbines, and M14s were very popular in Vietnam.

>>31609368
>tfw you have an AK for ultraviolence

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>>31609492
Here's another chopped carbine.

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>>31609503
SEALs used a copy of the HK33 in Vietnam. They were made by H&R under license as the T223 and were prized for their higher magazine capacity.

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>>31609523
Blue jeans were the pants of choice for some SEALs and UDT guys in Vietnam because of how well they held up under stress and how quiet the cotton was.

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>>31609540

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>>31609553

>You will never operate using hit and run tactics against the lobsterback menace.
Why live?

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>>31609235
Even fifty years ago they covered their rifles in accessories.

>>31609583
>XM148 on an FAL
Oh god muh dicc

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Mallninjas and Travis Bickle wannabes of decades past enjoyed crappy commercial M1 copies, especially pistols.

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>>31609618
Surplus and replica holsters originally made for airborne use were sold for these.

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>>31609631
Some tacticool from the days when it was still cool to mount your optic on your carry handle.

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Does 90s count as oldschool?

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>>31609654

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>>31609655
Fuck yeah. Also Sferas are the shit, and I totally need to get one.

>>31609654
>Implying that carry handle mounted optics are not cool
Get outta here

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>>31609655

>>31609654
Laser Products Company of Fountain Valley, CA went on to become SureFire.
>>31609655
1990 was almost 30 years ago. Fucks me up when I think about it.

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I like these threads

have had a hardon for winter war as of late

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>>31609670
Hey, man, I still think they're great. But the tacticool SHEEPDAWG dudes who succeeded the fat, Ruger-carrying militiamen of the 90s have spoken (not that anyone actually cares what they say).

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>>31609708

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>>31609403
I love that pic.

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>>31609734
The breakup of the USSR and the constitutional crisis they had there were fucking terrifying. Nobody in America was 100% who had the nuke keys, so things were a bit tense.

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>>31609734
So why are the cockpits of Russian aircraft painted in shades of blue? I doubt it's to reduce eyestrain.

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>>31609749
I hope you love this picture too, then.

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>>31609761
Supposedly helps distinguish dials and indicators better in poor lighting

>>31609761
I have no idea. Maybe it's because it's high contrast with the gauges and controls. Maybe turquoise paint was the cheapest, or some paint factory with buddies in high places had a shitload of turquoise to offload. I'm not sure if their current aircraft are painted this way, but the Soviet ones certainly were. I honestly love how quirky it is.

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>>31609786

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>>31609809
I love this one, plus it's in color

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>>31609805
They still do it. Pic is Su-35 cockpit

>>31609828
RADICAL

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>>31609805
High contrast was something that came to mind too when I submitted my post.
Either way, yeah I like it too along with the little fans they always have. It's not a Soviet aircraft without the fan.

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If I remember right, these guys were kitting up to come take everyone's guns... or kill key figures opposing UN integration of America into the reptilian one world government or something like that.

>>31609828
New favorite pic in the world.

>>31609882
please explain

>>31609761
It's a specific shade of blue known to calm people and enhance wakefulness.

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>>31609882
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipqqEFoJPL4

>>31609900
That sounds like bullshit, but I'll believe it.

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>>31609846
that smile

>>31609805
I know that blue light counteracts your bodies ability to produce melatonin. Could light reflecting off blue have a similar effect and give you just the slightest edge during long flights? Would the Russians over think things as much as I do? Just spit balling here...

>>31609890
The end game for globalists is the dissolution of every nation state and merging all peoples into one culture.

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>>31609934
I know that orange incites agitation and anger, and that both schools and prisons use muted shades of stone, brown, and blues to provide a neutral yet calming background.

>>31609946
Why no magazines?

anyone got some decent res tiger stripe camo operators?

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>>31609953

>>31609890
In the 90s, gun culture was kind of underground. Gun shows had everything from lightning links to Paladin Press "Exotic Weapons System" books and hitman manuals. The militia movement of the time was heavily involved in 90s gun culture, and many of them had bizarre political views based on conspiracy theories, racism, and fundamentalist Christianity. Black helicopters, fears of a "New World Order" installed by the UN, Millenarian prophecies about the second coming, and all kinds of stuff were very common. New Age ideas and the Christian response to them spawned armed cults, and Identity Christians (the crazy sect Randy Weaver belonged to) even believed white people were the chosen children of God who would be saved during the Apocalypse as predicted in Revelation. Funnily enough, illegal surveillance of civilians by the NSA was considered a crackpot conspiracy theory in the 90s. Strange stuff.

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>>31609970
When you're a hardened operator, you don't need ammunition to kill. Seriously though, it's probably from a training exercise.

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>>31609977
You bet your ass I do.

>>31609995
you have no fucking idea what you're talking about do you

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Does late 80's early 90's count? That time was the most aesthetic

>>31609655
>When you fart and try to act innocent but Boris knows

>>31609995
>WEAVER: You want to know how I feel about racists?

BROKAW: Yes.

WEAVER: I'll put it this way. I would go back to back in the trenches with any man of any race if he wants to fight for justice. Every man of every race, man, woman, child should be proud of who they are and what they are. Racist to me means loving your race. Being proud of yourself and who you are. And that's the way I have believed. I have never for, you know, I've always believed that way.

BROKAW: But you went as well to the Aryan Church of Jesus Christ, Paul Butler's church. And he teaches more than just racial separatism.

WEAVER: Right. Yeah, he does. And I don't agree with that. We disagree on a lot of things. But I went to four maybe five meetings over a four year period and usually ended up in arguments when I was there about racial, political, religious beliefs. I don't follow anybody. I've never joined that church. I haven't belonged to a church since I was 12 years old and that was Presbyterian. I quit the NRA in 1980. I don't belong to anything. I'm not a joiner.

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>>31609977
here

>>31610020
I don't know man, but I lived through the decade. Maybe you can explain it better? That is, unless you're going to defend the actions of the Hutaree and Timmy McVeigh. What happened at Ruby Ridge was unconstitutional, but you can't seriously think that people weren't going absolutely fucking nuts 30 years back.

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>>31610054
>you will never wear Tiger Stripe and carry a Stoner

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Spetsnaz playing dress up in Afghanistan

>>31610039
Huh, interesting. Anybody remember when Bo Gritz was on the news because he went to Ruby Ridge as a negotiator? That guy was all over the place. I wonder if there really were living Americans left behind in Vietnam.

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>>31609995
Tell me more comfy 90's gun culture stories. Wasn't everything better back then? At least people still had balls

>>31610106
>I wonder if there really were living Americans left behind in Vietnam.

I don't doubt that for one second

>>31610125
Waco scared the living shit out of most right-wing militias, then the Oklahoma bombing by McVeigh freaked out the federal government so bad that NSA went balls-to-the-wall after that.

>>31610039
Bull. Weaver first met the ATF informant who informed the feds that he sold two short-barreled shotguns illegally at a fucking Aryan Nations meeting. He was invited by an associate of his who was involved with the group Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. Despite what he said on the news, his history says otherwise. Besides that, Vicki Weaver and their boys were heavily into the Christian Identity shit. Randy was related to Identity Christians, he was buddies with a guy involved in a white supremacist Christian militia that committed domestic terrorist acts in the South, and he met the informant who ratted him out at an Aryan Nations meeting. He was definitely a racist crackpot. Maybe not as nuts as Vicki Weaver, but still nuts.

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Brandenburgers dont get any mention

>>31610125
The AWB sucked ass, the whole country had to buy rifles with weird thumbhole stocks, and Mini-14s were all the rage. Gun culture and radical right wing politics of the 70s, 80s, and 90s is one of my favorite things to study. The history was weird and riddled with shit that would later be ripped from the headlines and inserted into X-Files and Law and Order episodes.

>>31609879

According to a Google search (come on guys) it's likely to be because they wanted the transition from looking outside of the cockpit to the inside to be easy on the eyes.

>>31610125
Look up Chevie Kehoe and do some reading. Very interesting stuff. There's also an FBI Files episode you can find on Youtube or Netflix. FBI Files had some great episodes featuring 90s gun and militia culture. Let me give you some episode titles.
>Terror for Sale
>Hired Gun
>Deadly Mission
>Silent Strike
>Firefight
All are well worth watching. You've got your militia movement shootouts, the Miami shootout, bounty hunters, assassinations with 10/22s and Ruger .22 pistols, street gangs that take to terrorism, and all sorts of shady 90s action.

>>31610019
>>31610054
>>31610077
absolute legends lads, best camo pattern ever.

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Anybody have any colored/colorized photos of Soviet Special forces/VDV in Afghanistan?

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>>31610391
While not exactly SF, here's a clip from Afghan that you've probably already seen a billion times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBDc2pDQgVg

Still a great scene though.

>>31610023
2 stick of TNT is a bit excessive for a breaching charge isn't it? That puts the safety standoff distance at at least 12-15 meters.

>>31610447
Pretty sure that's some form of plastic explosive.

>>31610447
Its probably some sort of low explosives, or he wants to kill the shit out of whoever is occupying the building and behind that door.

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>>31610431
Never gets old. Really takes you back to that time.

>>31610516
Do you have the other one with the same guy that showcases the forward grip?

>>31610535
Already ahead of you my dude.

Keep this shit coming, the A E S T H E T I C is too good. Especially old Soviet Afghan era film and photos.

>>31609501

It was me, Jozsef, and my three droogs....

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Another Afghan pic. Anybody have context for this one?

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>>31609354
>point man has a boner
That's a man that loves his job

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>>31610693
Holy shit thank you for pointing this out.

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>>31610693
Here's some more eagle claw

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>>31610493
Im the guy you're replying to
That IS 2, 1 lb sticks of TNT with a detonation velocity of 6900 meters per second and an REF of 1.00. It's not "plastic explosive" it's not some form of low explosive. I've only set of a few thousand of them as a Combat Engineer.

>>31610671
Had to do a little bit of digging, but it's apparently an airport in Kabul that got shelled by mortars.

>>31610740
Well I feel retarded.

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>>31610461
>>31610493
It's TNT.

>>31610461
Pretty much all plastic explosives have a Higher REF than TNT

>>31610740
>>31610781
RIP whoever is on the other side lol

>>31610838
Looks like a training exercise to be honest. I don't know why you would use time fuse to set off a breaching charge. IT would take 2-4 minutes to burn through that length of time fuse.

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Soviets in Afghanistan.

>>31610019
What's that on the handguard of the guy in the middle's rifle?

>>31611427
Standard A1 handguard but with a cleaning rod held on by tape or rubber bands.

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>>31611090
I know I'll get crucified for this, but I think the shorts are fucking stupid. For me, it takes all the intimidation value out of any operator.

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>>31610000
>In_An_Aeroplane_Over_Kuwait.jpg

>>31611505
ayy lmao

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>>31611499

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More Rhodesians

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>>31611663

>>31611661
God damn the dude second from the left really went all out.

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>>31611653
At least post it in the proper size

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Remember 303 Highlands of battle!

#KoreaWar #朝鮮戦争 #米軍 #国連軍 #韓国 #625戦争 #UN

>>31609540
I was thinking about it many times - how come Jeans never became an uniform in any armies prior to WW2?
(pls no American Civil War.)
I saw many uniforms from WW1 and WW2, and they are mostly made of thick wool-like fiber, hard to dry, and insanely hot in the summer.

>>31609946
I once spoke to a recon marine who was a painter in the first gulf war.
Or at least he said he was. Is it true, that they only used M16's with 3-round burst, no full-auto?
I thought he was lying.

>>31612113
I would reckon because jeans weren't considered casual wear back then, and were reserved for laborers in the States like miners or farmers.

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>>31612113
The US military used them in the interwar period. They had entirely denim fatigues that were used on exercises and worn in the Philippines if I remember correctly.

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>>31612200
They even had cute little sun hats they called "Daisy Mays."

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>>31612224
DUN
DUN
DUNNNNNNN

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Executive Outcomes

>>31612242
....Levi Strauss was behind this.

>>31612200
>>31612224
Nice. :)

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>>31611540
Aw shit, its the motherfucking Mad Dog Shriver. Recently read that one book on MACV-SOG that /k/ constantly recommends and I was blown away by the absolutely insane shit these guys did. It was also pretty sobering to read up on how many teams were just kinda "swallowed up" by the jungle, never to be seen or heard from again.

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>>31611690
Interesting, been in plenty of Rhodie threads but I've never seen these before. Also find it odd that there's a pic of them actually wearing helmets, from what I read the Rhodies tended to eschew them since they found them too heavy to use in the bush.

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>>31609235

>>31612435
Spierdalaj gimbie.

>>31609492
>>31609503

What was the philosophy behind this?

Easier to handle in jungle vegetation? Lighter?

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God i love the colt 9mm carbine.

>>31609503
How did chopping that much barrel off not negatively affect the feeding cycle of the M1?

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>>31612562
Lightweight ,easier to manuever in the bushes than a full sized m14 or even a m60

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>>31612562
Probably both of those things. .30 Carbine is very easy to handle, too, so if you had an M2 you'd basically have a submachine gun with a little extra kick. SOG teams were known to carry chopped M79s with them. They were used as a standoff weapon, so in case of an ambush they could quickly unload a 40mm grenade or two and disappear into the jungle in the ensuing chaos.

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>>31609235

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Even rhodesians chopped their weapons

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>>31612523
>fuck gimbie
What's that supposed to mean anon?

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>>31610447
When I asked the exact same question in explosives training in basic they told me that I ask too many questions. So that's that.

>>31612469

Need to spend more time on /k/, love this thread.

Mind mentioning the name of the book? I know I need to lurk moar

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>>31612545
seriously woodland pattern is so fucking sexy

>>31611503
It wasnt about looking cool and intimidating. Shorts were excellent for operating in the bush.

>>31610558
>>31610533
>Kojima based 1 1/2 games on this photoset.

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The guy lying down is a Knight

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>>31609846
>captured PPDs
>Kar 98k

Noice.

>>31613446
>Exposed legs to bugs, reptiles, brush.

Yeah, no.

>>31609492
How popular?

>>31611661
triggered
>>31613483
I'm jealous of his hair

>>31613858
>wade through rivers and creeks
>pants are all wet and impede motion

dude scouts intimidated by killing over 10x their number without casualty, I don't they needed to look intimidating

>>31614479
Not the guy you replied to, but there's one thing that gives the best of both: Levi jeans.

>>31611481
Is that a 7.62x39 m4 front and center?

>>31615484
red ten, standing by

>>31615484
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>>31615627
More likely just a 5.56mm extendo. There were some DIY conversions made (pic related) and maybe some official extended STANAGs, since I found a few Vietnam SEAL photos with similar mags, but no designation for the mags themselves.

>>31615539
great pic.

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>>31615693
I don't see a lot of photos of extended mags during the vietnam war.

>>31615693
Wow, thanks for the info and pics. That's fuckin' neato, my dude.

As if early 30 round stanags didn't already have enough feeding problems.

>>31615819
Not a lot, but enough to show it was a thing. I'll give that the above mag looks like a dead ringer for a 7.62x39 AR mag, but I just don't see much evidence for those rifle being around much. The earliest real example I can see of a 7.62x39 AR is the SR-47, and that's from the early 2000s.

I think it's just more plausible that a small, detachable, cheap piece that is the mag was extended rather than assuming an entire niche rifle was developed and given to one guy on the team.

>>31612140
He's right. M16A2 (semi/burst) was adopted by the Marines in '83 and the Gulf War was '91.

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>>31615819
its happened in just about every war, soldiers with a little ingenuity can make a better gun for themselves than any engineering team. Thats also why many marines brought along there personal rifles.

>>31616158
>Better than any engineering team.

To be fair, for every one good field improvement, there were probably about 100 janky ones that were worse than the GI layout.

>Bringing personal rifles

I have never seen proof of this happening, at least as much to be considered "common". Outside of units with more lax standards for that kind of thing like SEALs and Green Berets and such, I doubt you would see many personal weapons, especially rifles getting brought into country.

There was/is use of non-standard weapons, but those are picked up in country, not brought from home.

>>31613544

That bitch

>>31616158
>>Bringing personal rifles
>never seen proof
then you arent looking.
i admit you have to take their word for it but its not like they taking it with them just to pose for a picture. But if i were a soldier(and had the ability too) i build my own personal upper that fits my wants and take it with me. But i was really refering to WWI/II, Korea, and Vietnam. The fun of war was ruined by bureaucracy and the idea someone was always accountable.

>>31616411

>if i were a soldier

>The fun of war

...

>>31611324
Don't really see the motor rifle infantry much.

>>31616411
this was meant for >>31616234

>>31616581
That's because they didn't really do much. Most of the fighting was carried out by VDV and recon troops. Motor rifles were just there to hold ground and get shot at occasionally.

>>31609473
those boat shoes

>>31609583
and a moron with the muzzle stuck in the dirt.

>>31616457
you got me there.

>>31609473
Operator up top, party down below

I like it

>>31609828
Some dad in the world sees this picture and remembers happier times.

>>31612469
What is the book called

>>31616000
Got the original?

>>31612569
>overused world war two footage overlaid with low opacity, with the zoom on his face occurring during the mandatory stuka scene

>>31613426
>>31618610
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John Plaster

>>31609709
Awesome. Watching Narcos all I could think about how /k/ it would be rolling with Search Bloc and snuffing out commie drug dealers

>>31615560
>wanting swamp ass this bad.

Jesus christ

>>31609970
posed for photo, also wearing night camo during day.