Why has modern combat favored the manlet?

>>34314948
Napoleon complex

>>34314948
their small stature makes them more suited to mechanized warfare. They also on average consume less resources and present a smaller target to shoot at.

>>34314948
manlet get bully
manlet compensate with killing

Because hajis can't aim for shit and tend to fire over you

>>34314948
Because there's a difference between the internet where everyone is magically 6 foot tall at least, and reality of what average heights are IRL.

>>34315117
Yeah half of /k/ spouts off about how they're the 6'11" master race when 95% of them are probabaly 5'9" and below

>>34315117
People like Audie Murphy and Smedley Butler were still considered scrawny in their time, so there's no real excuse.

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Rage and no-GF = murder machine

Rage is a weapon. Do your nation a service and piss off a manlet today.

>>34314948
Because despite what roasties think of taller men, shorter men are almost entirely superior in every way.

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>>34314948
You're a smaller target profile. Always give the short guys the SAWS and other automatic weapons. Tall, lanky motherfuckers are easy targets. They can't take proper cover either in a turret or behind trees or defilade.

>>34314948
>neverserved
Manlets ALWAYS fall out on hikes and %99 of grunt life is hiking.

>>34316407
false, tall lanky people do not have the endurance of shorter people

Prone position is a thing and it will always be a thing. It will always favor the manlet. Being a sniper will always favor the manlet. being able to step softly and not be heard will favor the manlet. Less meat to carry will always favor the manlet. remaining cooler while doing streneous activity will always favor.

The eternal manlet waits.

your move


teleports behind you

>>34314948
The answer is simple and obvious, and you shouldn't have murdered a (probably also shitty) thread for this.

We don't need physical strength for the way we used to, because we have machines do all the work that would take strength. Instead, we need people that can endure long, shitty living conditions and operate the machines well. You don't need to be big or strong for that.

>>34316454
THIS

There's a reason dwarves are always depicted as alpha and elves as bitch-made; it's borne out in real life.

>>34316454
>Being a sniper will always favor the manlet
It's true
>Carlos Hathcock
>Vasillij Zeytzev (and most of the people he later trained for that matter)
>Simo Haya
>Lyudmilla Palivchenko

all 5'8 or less

>fucking Chris Kyle
6'2

TOP GODDAMN ZOZZLE
LANKLETS BTFO

>>34317315
>Lyudmilla Palivchenko
>Manlet

>>34315117
I am unironically 6'6" and would hate to be in a firefight against a 90lb 5'2 manlet

>>34317376
Was comrade Palivchenko 6 foot or taller?

>>34317788
I can't find anything referencing their height but I highly doubt it.

>>34314948
Because we aren't swinging heavy things around anymore.
>don't join the infantry as a big guy or you will be carrying a support weapon

>>34320285
I thought the meme was that the smallest guy in the unit got the support weapon since he's a smaller target in cover. It also looks funny, and everyone needs a morale boosting chuckle now and then.

>>34320360
Memes are memes, reality is big guy gets big gun unless someone else is super moto.

>>34315173
they mean 6'11" wide

>>34316454
>remaining cooler while doing streneous activity will always favor.
Uh, no? The body proportions that favor heat are being lanky my dude.

>>34314948
Smaller target yo

>>34315333
wtf is that gif...get that animal abuse shit off /k/ you nigger

>>34315333
>>34315061
Say what you will, but these are definitely a factor.

>>34315333
Unironically this. I spent many years thinking "Damn his girlfriend is hot. I want to hit him in the face, alas he is so tall that his face is simply too far away for my wee lil' arms to strike at it." Then I got a gun.

>>34320360
>I thought the meme was that the smallest guy in the unit got the support weapon since he's a smaller target in cover

No, we issue the machinegun to the manlet because he will eat his own guts before he ever complains about the weight in front of anyone taller than him

>>34315675
>tall can't hide behind cover
Maybe even true.
>tall is obsolete
I think the fuck not. Easier to build defences and shoot over higher obstacles. Basically base guards.

>>34320962
>make cover smaller
>use less material
>same coverage for manlets
>allow lanklets to die
>increase efficiency

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>>34320884
Fucking this. 5'5" manlet here, I carried a 240 on foot patrols overseas. Funny story about that by the way
>2 years after first deployment, be newly appointed team leader
>gearing up for next deployment with FNGs
>doing foot patrol up a mountain to an overnight OP, so carrying all of our shit with us
>Bubba, my 6'4" corn fed country boy, starts sucking dicks about half way up
>he falls twice, I go over to help
>"Ah caint carry it no more Sarn't, it's too much"
>gimmethefuckingpig.jpg
>about 200 yards in, immediately regret my desicion
>I'm fucking dying, haven't humped this thing in forever, it's killing me
>dontshowitdontshowitdontshowitFUCKdontshowitOW
>"Come on you fucking pussies, we're almost there"
>Suddenly OPFOR ambush
>Lay down in relief, start loading a belt and directing my team to set up a base of fire
>Bubba plops down to take over
>"Fuck no Bubba, we switched, remember? You coordinate"
>He actually does an alright job
>Squad leader gives me an attaboy for turning a fuck up into a teaching opportunity
>don't have the heart to tell him I was on the verge of collapsing and puking and wasn't thinking straight
Good times.

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>Manlet
>Want to be a pilot
>mfw I found out manlets handle Gs better
>mfw taking flight lessons and realizing how uncomfortable it would be for non manlets
MANLET 4 LYFE

>>34321291
What size manlets are we talking here?

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>>34321311
Same height as the patron saint of manlets.
5'9

>>34321317
Today I will remind them of the Manlet Tiers.
>6'
Unironically believes he isn't a manlet. He is.
>5'11"
Wears lifts and thinks people don't notice. They do.
>5'8"-5'10"
The patrician manlet range, wherein a man is small but fiercely efficient.
>5'5"-5'7"
Great for blending in with high school students, and little else.
I am 5'6". It's suffering. I sometimes wear boy's large pants.
>5'4" and less
Medical anomaly. You aren't allowed to laugh, at least not in front of them.

audie murphy was small because he grew up a subsistence hunter that also made his an incredible shooter

>>34321008
wait what? the saw isn't even that bad. I had to carry it once for a bitching SAW gunner had just had a bunch of fun.

>>34314948
It's a strength to weight ratio thing. There is an optimum human size for the current technology.

t. 6ft 250lb

>>34321922
>240
>saw

Anon, if you are going to steal Valor on a anonymous pastry destructive testing pamphlet at least do it right.

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>>34315657
says to one who's little legs are dangling from the toilet while takin' a dump.

>>34321948
and you are way too heavy for that optimum you fatass.

>>34321957
>not using the potty squatty

>>34316407
>hikes

Every light infantryman I have ever known was 150lbs, regardless of height.

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>>34315173
>tfw 5'8 slavic manlet
>tfw almost every person from /k/ and /o/ I've met has been shorter than me

>>34322065
>tfw a fat old man can out perform you in every possible way.

My point IS, that despite being personally huge, I recognize that smaller guys have an advantage in performing military activities.

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>>34316407
>infantry
>using the word "hike"

Sure, pal.

Sure.

>>34314948
>Why has modern combat favored the manlet?
>modern combat

It hasn't.

>Imperial regulations, though not entirely unambiguous, suggest that the minimum height for new recruits was five Roman feet, seven inches (165 cm., 5'5") ... for the army as a whole a reasonable estimate of a soldier's average height is around 170 cm (5'7").

>- Roth, Jonathan, and Jonathan P. Roth. The Logistics of the Roman Army at War: 264 BC-AD 235. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, Vol. 23. Brill, 1999.

Height doesn't reflect cardio and strength to weight ratios, and that, combined with the willingness to fight, is what makes a good soldier.

You'd know that if you ever actually served....or read any history.

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>>34317066
>We don't need physical strength for the way we used to

Sure, pal, because those rucksacks hump themselves through those A-stan mountains, and modern body armor, weapons, tripods, and ammunition doesn't weigh shit.

The only people that think you don't need "strength" in the modern military are the people that don't have to actually fire and maneuver in actual combat.

>>34320360

You put the big guys in the weapons squads because they usually can't keep up with the lighter guys in the rifle squads when they have to move on an enemy position, and speed saves lives in a firefight.

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>>34314948
So tall officers can easily pat them on the heads and say "it's a good thing you're so smol"

>>34322639
That doesn't require strength training. It requires being physically healthy and having had a proper diet with plenty of activity growing up.

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>college educated in aeronautical engineering
>Airforce JROTC since freshman year
>ROTC and honor guard throughout college
>lead the platoon
>Want to fly jets since I was a baby
>Blow the ASVAB out of the water
>Recruiter tells me I am a a sure thing at being a fighter pilot
>Join air force
>Graduate academy valedictorian
>lol jk you're 6'7 you wont fit in the aircraft. Go work on these hydraulics systems instead
>mfw

The moral of the story is twofold. One, recruiters are pieces of human shit who should not be trusted. You should not enlist or commission unless you get EXACTLY what you want guaranteed to you in a legally binding document. Two, it was kind of a blessing in disguise. Don't go for the cool MOS, go for the boring MOS that teaches you a very advanced and specialized trade in high demand in the civilian market. Pilots don't make shit, hydraulics engineers like me make mad money and fuck the pilots wives.

>>34322730
>doing all that time without ever wondering if there was a height restrictions
Nigger, I enlisted and I fucking knew that, way to be the "best and brightest"

>>34322723
That's funny, as an NCO that's trained n00bs and veteran dudes alike, my experience doesn't reflect that at all.

>>34322773
I know. I prepared myself to join the airforce for 9 years, and that thought legitimately never crossed my mind once, and no one ever mentioned it to me. Amazing ain't it? I figured they could find some aircraft to jam me into. The only thing they could offer me was to fly a KC-130 refueling tanker and I wasn't interested in that at all. So I said fuck it stick me on a carrier and let me work the catapult.

>>34322817
Your loss my friend, the C-130 and all of its variants are gods gift to the sky

>>34322839
I did ask for the AC-130 but there were no openings. I wanted to fly something that kills shit.

my ammo bearer was no shit 5'2". We called him the battle hobbit. Little bastard had to work twice as hard on rucks compared to those of us that actually had legs. But he never fell out, though for a while he would slinky us real bad if he was up front.

>>34322839
Oh yeah, I also inquired about strategic bombers, B1 lancer, B52, B2 and such, but again... no openings

do short people or big people get to carry radios

>>34314948
Same reason everyone picked oddjob in goldeneye

>>34322872
>do short people or big people get to carry radios

Yes.

>>34315333
can that faggot goose even walk?

frankly, that dog could fuck that gay thing up, it's long-ass neck is just begging to be bit in twain, why is that dog being so gay?

>>34322872
No

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>>34322922
>>34323233
Stop it.

>>34321922
A 240B anon, sweet baby Jesus, reading comprehension is not that difficult. If it was a SAW I'd have called it a SAW, not
>240
>the pig
Who the fuck calls the SAW a 249 anyway?

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>>34322839
Tell me about them please

>>34322480
Maybe I want to use lingo that people can understand you shiteater. Humps, Rucks, First Sgt's fap material etc.

>>34326134
Sure, LARPer.

Sure.

>>34314948
Lower profile made us much more effective when RADAR became prolific.