Anyone has experience with being a tank crew member?

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beats being a grunt

>>33652461
Do you mean to ask "Does anyone..." because starting your sentence with "Anyone" makes it a statement. Come back when you know how to formulate questions properly.

>>33652461
best job you could ever have, so i hear

>>33652658
>ends question with period
>Criticise others about grammar and how to properly formulate questions
Cringe

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>>33652658
>criticizes OP's grammar
>can neither correctly employ grammar usage with quotes, nor use interrogative marks with a question

>>33652461
It's pretty comfy if you're a manlet, from what I've heard

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>>33652461
Was a gunner on a Merkava 4. Got discharged 4 months ago.

>how was the experience?
Depends. Had both bad and good times.

>Also is it comfy in the tank?
Not really. You get used to it relatively quick, though.

>>33653645
Damn, I wanted to be a tankist, got מסייעת instead.
How is the life of a tank crew member? Better or worse than I'll have?

>>33653645
>>33654121
whats it like fighting all them Ayyy-rabs

>>33654141
Dunno, still training. They like coming to our camps (that usually have around 150 armed people and 24/7 guard) to steal brass and shit. Truly, stupid people are brave.

>>33653645
How good are the atgms? Flechette?

>>33653645
Are Tanks threatened at all by Arabs? From what I heard is RPGs can't really damage a modern tank.

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>>33654121
>How is the life of a tank crew member? Better or worse than I'll have?
I don't think there's much of a difference except you walk to the objective and we don't.

>>>>33654168
Flechette rounds were phased out years ago. I assumr you mean LAHAT when you say ATGMs? It isn't really a thing. Not in wide spread service.

>>33654191
We had all kinds of ATGMs and rockets fired at us in Gaza 2014. Hamas' AT arsenal is nothing to laugh it. Hezbollah's is even more impressive.

>>33652461
Was a tank mechanic
Operated an armored recovery vehicle
Not really a tank, but worked with a lot of them
Thinking back, what comes to mind: loud, smelly, dirty, muddy, bloody, raw power, lack of sleep, nice to have a cross-country Winnebago, essential teamwork, young man's game.

>>33652461

Was gunner on M1A1.

Shooting gunnery is A LOT of fun.

Cramped and noisy inside.

Tank always smells like grease.

Sucked being in army.

>>33652461
I was an 0311 in an LAV battalion. But if I'm caught in a tough situation on base I'm with 2nd tanks

>Be in Utah
>Go to school
>Every week or two National Guard recruiters showed up to the school.
>Talked to this one recruiter, was a tanker.
>Seemed like a pretty chill guy.
>Thought about joining.
>So, someday, asked him "how it was over there"
>He suddenly goes "WHAT DO YOU MEAN "HOW WAS IT GOINGS OVER THERE!"" in front of the entire school cafeteria.
>Awkward moment of silence.
>I sit there calmly watching the steam blow out of his ears, his recruiter buddies are just watching in disbelief that he went ape shit in front of the school
>I asked him if we were winning in a calm voice.
>"Yes, we're winning", he then just kind of awkwardly walks away.
>I walked the other way.

Never saw him again.

And that is why I never joined the National Guard to become a tanker.

>>33657549
What a prick

>>33654191
RPG 29s will powerfuck even an abrams or leo

>>33657513
"who you with devil?"

"2nd tanks _____ sergeant"

"good to fucking go, stand by"

Average day in lejeune for everyone who isnt in 2nd tanks ^

>>33652461
Go to your local Marine recruiter, ask him for a tanker contract.

After boot camp and MCT you'll get orders to either artillery, AAV, or combat engineer school

Thank you for your service

>>33658619
not if the rpg crews are already dead.
you lads ever hear of combined arms tactics?

>>33658718
In that case no tank in the history of tanks should have died to man-portable AT rockets

You cant just assume a 100% perfect combat scenario

i was an aav mechanic in the marines for a while. hated every minute of it. amtrackers are notoriously sketchy pieces of shit. no combat deployments, and the aav is outdated and will never again see combat. i drank myself to slerp every night crying and wishing i had a job that wasnt so utterly forgettable and useless.

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>>33657549

The Guard are a bunch of autistic spergs. It's nothing special to him.