Can soldiers use whatever gun they want?

>>33741824
A good thread died for this.

>>33741824
Yes but you can only carry 1 primary weapon at a time so will have to drop one, the armorer will love you for bring back rare weapons for him to finger fuck.

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>>33741824
>just like in video games

>>33741824
That's not how it works at all.
That's not how anything works.

t. A muhreen veteran
thank me for my cervix now

>>33741824
>Can you loot the dead body just like in video games and use the gun?
I imagine I would if said weapon had an application that I needed right at that moment.

>>33741824
Yes, but be sure to suck in extra ammo through your feet. Simply step on the enemy's corpse and you will top off your ammo count.

>ISIS freedom fighters carrying a Vintorez
>like in muh cawadooty
you have to be 18 to post here

>>33741905
Depends on your unit. Some may have you enter a pocket dimension to enter the enemy's inventory and manage things that way.

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>>33741824

Take a moment to think about this. How would the military handle the logistics of supplying every soldier with the special snowflake ammo needed for whatever gun they pick up on a whim? What if that soldier is a dumbass and picks up something worse than what they were issued because of rule of cool? How would they service guns in the field if everyone has something different and there's no standardized parts? What if the enemy sabatoged their discarded weapons and you ditched your issued rifle for broken dogshit?

Draw your own conclusions Captain McGraw.

>>33741927
Make sure to take the food, cigs, alcohol off their corpse as well, and consume it all at once. And don't forget the gold coins, you'll need them to buy more bandages to patch up your various lethal wounds.

>>33741824
Yes but you have to be level 30 and get the killstreak first.

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Well, there was that one guy who found a ppsh on a dead fighter in Iraq and managed to get it's use approved by command. IIRC he used it for about a week before running out of ammo.

>>33742067
this

even if OP seems underage b&, this is a legitimate question

if a soldier who ran out of ammo, or his gun got damage during a fight, is able to take an ennemy firearm and use it to defend himself ? and finally, is now a soldier able to bring back an ennemy captured weapon home from where he was deployed ?

>>33742067
>can I use this sir?
>who fucking cares, nothing matters anymore

>>33741824
>Can you loot the dead body just like in video games and use the gun?

Yes. Just left click on it with your penis. After demonstrating the proper technique for that in front of your platoon we will move onto the phase of PTing the stupid out of you by seeing if you are physically able to vomit faeces.

I doubt any of those fags laughing wouldn't cry if they found an original STG-44 from a dead body and the higher command told you to toss it away.

>>33741824
>can you pick it up and use it
I dunno Einstein, do your hands work? If so loot the fucker if you need to.
>still using scavenged weapon post firefight
No jackass! Command would have you turn it in to be destroyed or reallocated to friendly forces. Then stock you up on ammo for your service weapon.

Also in case you didn't know kid, you lose an issued weapon that wasn't completely destroyed, your ass gets reamed. Turns out Uncle Sam doesn't like it when you throw away their property.

seriously though

What is the US military's policy on looting dead guy's stuff? I imagine it is frowned upon.

>>33742160
War trophies are illegal now. No one is allowed to have fun.

>>33742097
Now and days it is exceptionally rare to bring back captured weapons. Most times weapons are collected and destroyed in a controlled explosion, or given to local forces to protect themselves.

>>33742121
lol

>>33742097
In the heat of the moment? Yes.

As a dedicated weapon he takes out with him at the outset of a patrol? 99.999999% no. It needs extreme exponentiating circumstances to happen.

>and finally, is now a soldier able to bring back an ennemy captured weapon home from where he was deployed ?

No. You can't have personal bringbacks.

>>33742160
You take weapons off dead bad guys all the time. As much as possible you don't want to leave weapons in the field for his friends to pick up later.

Weapons usually get photographed and tagged as evidence, then either put up in the local TOCs as trophies or destroyed.

>>33742130
Found weapons usually get kept in some form, just not carried into the field.

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>>33742217
>No. You can't have personal bringbacks.
Is this the first conflict in history where those that fought it couldn't bring back trophies? It sounds so ... petty.

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>>33741824
Why would you use a weapon that you have not been trained to use, have no ammunition for, might be salted and probably has been poorly maintained over your service raifu?

>>33741824
It works like Receiver. You're stuck with the gun you start with.

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Wtf man what is happening to this place

>>33742174
given to local forces to protect themselves.
>I killed your cousin, Achmed. Here, have his gun.
>Please use it to kill more of your cousins and not us.

>>33742067
This picture is some EXTREME cherrypicking by the way. This exact picture is always posted as an example of troops using captured weapons. I think it should speak volumes that this single set of photos from over a decade ago is one of the only instances that people can point to for this happening in modern times with US forces.

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>>33743482

>>33746167
Could an Al-Kadesih SVD be imported to the US?

We can't get Russian ones because >muh treaty and we can't get Chinese ones because >muh selling SAMs to gangs.

What about sandniggers SVD's?

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>>33741824
No. No you cannot. Using captured weapons is almost always a last resort.

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THAT WASN'T

YOUR RIFLE

TO REPLACE

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>>33741824
leave and never come back please

>>33741824
No but what you could do is use the Noose.

>>33743482
If that's true it's bullshit, you saying I can't bring back an ISIS flag from a dead haji?

>>33741824
> Like in videogames
Underaged nogunz retard detected.

>>33746360
Captain America supposedly had looted multiple AKs and fired them too

>>33741824
I'd like to see a mother fucker stop me. Sure I probably won't get to take it on future missions, but good luck prying my goddamn vss from me until we get back and leadership could make good on their threats of prison. Then again I was national guard. Had the best of the worst if you know what I mean.

>>33741824
Depends how much your superior likes you.

Also depends how much extra shit you want to carry. I'm sure they wouldn't let you ditch all your mags for AK or whatever mags. Plus you've got your issued gun over your back too.

>>33741824
if u shove it up your booty no one will kno u have it

>>33741824
You never use an enemy weapon in combat, good way to fuck with your own guys.
only instance it would be acceptable is survival / special operations, and even then, western and first world countries are usually better equipped than the enemy.

there is no way you could hide a long gun to get it back to base, and you would certainly never get an opportunity to use it.

Maybe if you hide it in-country and go back for it as civi, but it would be a struggle (not to menton probably highly illegal) to get it home.

Short answer, you are probably 12 years old.
Most adults have common sense to know what is illegal most of the time.

>>33744014
Generation Kill had an US officer picking up an AK, and I remember some coalition troops in Afganistan trading weapons to harmonize squads.
But usually you try not to get in front of a photographer when you're not up to reg. GOs are unfunny like that.
Also I wouldn't trust our current opponents with weapon maintenance.

Never see someone from ISIS using a VSS

>>33743952
>Thanks Schut McSoldier, Aamir was an asshole and killed my goat.

>>33741824
Of all the ways you could have asked this question you chose the only wrong way to do it.

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>>33741869
Can I preggo your cervix

If I found a VSS and I had a good opportunity to have it I do not give a single fuck what the laws are, that shit is gonna be mine.

Serious question do SF forces can do a wishlist and give it to the armorer to get the stuff or they just get issued with whatever they get?

>>33747228
Gee, I don't know why they have SCARs and shit

>>33747249
yeah american SF-s are pretty standardized, but when you look at the russians they have everything from AKM, AK-74 to VSS

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>>33747014
Would the cervix of an airman be acceptable for your uses?

>>33747282
if you're an 160th SOAR then yes otherwise...

>>33741824

No.

The SFC would punch my face for being a fuckhead. Then punch me again for getting caught.

>>33741824
No, you will never be able to use another gun if youve been trained for another one. Your hands will grip it wrong. The same as for you after you started jerking others off.

Tl:dr. OP is a fag

If youre a person that can afford whatever gear layout you want you do not join up the federal armed forces that toss you scraps and treat you like gutter shit all the while breaking your balls and psychology.


you join up with a nice mercenary group or become your own mercenary for hire.and get rich fast.

>>33742121
I want to thank you for your cervix because it sure sounds like you served.

>>33743952
>>I killed your cousin, Achmed. Here, have his gun.
More like, I kill those Taliban assholes in the next village, they won't stand over you for protection money and steal your goats anymore. Here's an AK in case more of them come back.

>>33747228
>Serious question do SF forces can do a wishlist and give it to the armorer to get the stuff or they just get issued with whatever they get?
Yes, they can generally take whatever they need for the mission and some of them even get to put together mission specific kits in advance. There was a thread on that recently.

They're not stupid enough to want to take unique shit though, they need their ammo to be compatible through the squad so you can borrow a mag or whatever. So, they could do what you're talking about but they know better than to actually do it.

>>33741824
It's always a good idea to pick up an enemy weapon. Store an AK in your truck. That way, should you shoot someone unarmed, you drop the gun next to them to prove self defense.

But use the gun? Well fuck, if you're about to die and black on ammo, I guess. Just hold X and pick it up.

>>33746960

>>33742121
exactly how it happened

>>33746960
Buddy of mine said he had a friend in Iraq that shipped an AKM home piece by piece. Could be full of shit, but he's usually not the type of guy to make stuff up.

>>33743600
this, really.

you have no idea how reliable the weapon is, it obviously didn't help the other guy.

>>33747006
It's JOHN McSoldier. Woooowwew yeeehaw yutt yutt get it right son.

>>33746802
REPUBLICAN GUARD INSIGNA SPECIAL SADDAM DIVISION

>>33746486
technically, yes. You cant loot bodies, It's seen as digraceful. Although if no one knows or says you have a flag or piece of jewlery and you hide it then your GG. Getting weapons is a bit more of a hassle. Getting it approved to keep by the military, find a dealer to legally ship it to, assuming it's a full auto you have to ship it to a special dealer and have a level 3 liscense, etc.

Pretty much just hide your shit.

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Are there still unites that collect ears and toes as proof of kills?

>>33750430
>It's seen as digraceful.
How so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTcDVaCOTk

>>33741830
You need a trip.
I'm thinking dead thread fred?

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>>33750493
How else are you going to send souvenirs back home to your sweetheart?

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>>33750570
> The practice continued up until the 20th century in the Balkans, and occurred on a smaller scale during World War II and the Vietnam War.
> About 60% of the bodies of Japanese soldiers recovered in the Mariana Islands and returned to Japan lacked skulls

>>33750591

They actually did collect body parts far up as the Vietnam war.

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>>33747954
Sometimes they did it out of necessity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGbL45_qVs

>>33750609
> maximum edge
I can't imagine everybody was happy having some psycho collecting rotting body parts on their team. Imagine the stink.

>>33741869
Thanks for doing your job just like construction workers but with less danger and more hand holding.

>>33742217
Damn that's boring. If I had to bag Hadjis I'd at least like to take his gun home with me.

>>33750653
That's why they'd boil off the flesh/cook it off. Bones don't really smell that bad. Just gotta be careful so the bones don't get too soft.

>>33750609
IIRC there was a Baltic country's force that was under investigation for taking trophies in Afghanistan - I want to say the Lithuanians, because really, if anyone is doing it, it's the Lithuanians.

>>33741824
Now, I know this a dumb question, but it raises one of mine.

How hard would it be for a unit of guys to strip down captured and undeclared weapons, and bring them into the US undocumented, piece by piece?
Does it happen?

I ask because my Grandfather and his mates did it during WWII - they brought back a Type 92 HMG in pieces, minus the tripod; they reassembled it and my Grandfather bought it off the others afterwards.
This is all sort of family legend though, because it was confiscated in the 60's due to a nosy neighbour.

>>33743482
If that was me at least that mag would be coming home with me, even if it was in my rectum.

>>33742013
Ok, OP was an extreme hypothetical but what if I have a custom AR that I could drop an auto sear in? It's standardized for most parts and modular.

Wasn't there a story about a guy clearing houses with a PPSH until his CO took it from him?

>>33743857
The /r/4chan/KYM newfags are spreading from /r9k/ and /b/ to here, probably.

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>>33750681
Where there is a will

>>33747906
Or keep the AK in the truck so if you have to use something on troublesome civies you can blame the enemy.

>>33750680
>How hard would it be for a unit of guys to strip down captured and undeclared weapons, and bring them into the US undocumented, piece by piece?
Very difficult
>Does it happen?
Yes but very rarely/you don't hear about it.

>>33741824
Let's see, use a gun of unknown quality, maintenance and mo supply or use a gun that you know has been maintained, has a known manufacturing standard and you can get ammo for it?

That said, I know of a gunsmith friend of a friend that was allowed to use a Thompson submachine gun he found in a Vietcong weapons cache and then restored (with surplus parts from mainland US) during the Vietnam war after some complaining.

I've seen reports of Taliban using old henry martini's left behind by the Brits, would be pretty dope to find one of those probably worth a bit too.

>>33751003
They really are worth crap. I have seen pictures of the bring backs and the really poor condition. Add on top The fact the kypher pass fakes are more common the actual martinis and you should advoid them unless you really know your shit. The only redeeming quality is the novelty of the guns history IMO.

>>33751003

It's not uncommon for the sand people to use random shit like that. I'm pretty sure there was a recent video of ISIS using Yugo Mausers for example.