Hello /k/, /lit/ here. I'm currently writing a short novel

Not specifically. Certain areas have a bit of mystique around them, like if someone tells you they were in Fallujah in 2004 or Sangin during the surge, you sort of assume Wow, he must have been in the shit.

>>34635590
Alright, but I assume there must be some kind of measurment, even if it's inofficial.
On a resume you'd probably write so and so many years of military experience and in which areas. But for special ops units there would probably be something like so and so many hours of combat, count of accomplished missions or total mission hours? I just want a grasp on how a military guy would describe it.

>>34635638
There is no objective measurement of combat experience. You would just have to list off ops you were in and people would infer your experience from what they know about those ops.

>>34635638
You've got this all wrong anon. POGs sit at the base tacticooling their shit and imagining what being 'in the shit' is like.
People who are actual warriors don't give a damn about keeping count of hours, only missions and keeping themselves and their friends alive.

You're trying to look at this like a finished cake in need of icing; when you should be looking at it as raw material being whipped into shape, rising to meet its challenge and ending with a delicious treat after all your hard work. The treat being survival.
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>>34635890
I see, so it's more reputation than objective measurment. Thanks.

>>34636059
>food metaphors
I think you've had enough, anon.

A lot of people here have already said it, but at the end of every combat deployment or operation there isn't some good boy point system.

The experience of each soldier entirely depends on the individual experiences they have. There could one be one SEAL who has had nothing but uneventful OPS his entire career, and there could be your generic grunt that has experienced hell on earth with a string of unlucky deployments.

>>34635541
It isn't like a solid measuring stick because lots of people in the military just jerk off all day, I would pick something specific that they were involved in, like the surge or fallujah in 04, basically were they "in the shit".

>>34636471
>>34636560

Okay, but wouldn't consideration of individual circumstances make for a giant mess in a highly beaurocratic system like the military administration? How do they make skills / experience comparable? Or are the decision makers all in on this system of reputation so they can tell talent by "screening" people or something?

>>34635541
is this gay erotica

>>34636681
Training is usually the only defining buffer between different soldiers. This is why SEAL training is unbelievably excruciating and difficult, while your typical Army training is much more tame by comparison.

Their metric basically asks only one question. "Can they complete the training?". If they can complete the training, then they are apart of that rating, the only thing that will get them beyond that rating is more training.

>>34636121
>food references
Please anon your words are honey-sweet like pumperknickle bread; and the bait you left for me seems to have caught anons instead
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The turning stopped and we clearly saw: the flaw is in that which finds the flaw!
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Combat time is near impossible to measure too. You might be thinking in flight hours, where a pilot counts every hour with their bird in the air is a flight hour and having more of them looks better.

The issue is that "combat" is very, very vague. One unit will pretend like getting faintly mortared chilling at a base overseas is heavy shit, meanwhile another unit will initiate and finish a nasty firefight for a long time and have to call in medevacs for their brothers yet still feel like not a whole lot happened.

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>'lmao hey /k/ describe combat'
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>>34636752
I'm drinking with you next time

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>>34635541
Check their total EXP.