Going Away for the Next 3 months
 

I'm leaving for Army Basic Training tomorrow morning so I will be away for the next 3 months. Hopefully I'm not back before that...because that would mean something bad.

...just letting you all know.

Good luck, bring lots of extra razors and shaving cream.

You doing MOS training right after basic? I thought basic was 8 for the army.

I'm doing Infantry so it's OSUT (one station unit training) -Basic and AIT/MOS school is contiguous.

9 weeks of Basic and 4 months of AIT

I'm not looking forward to it at all....worst that will happen is I will have an utter mental/morale breakdown and wash out.

-P.S. I'd appreciate if my user page is locked to prevent any vandalism while I'm away :)

NOOO! YOU'RE GONNA BE GONE! IN INTERNET TIME THAT'S LIKE....A YEAR MAN! NOOO!

but really man..im gonna miss you. in a no-homo way.
so....work hard.
eat your vegies.
brush your teeth.
do good in school.
and floss.

you'll make it through man.

Good luck.

Good luck, enjoy your training.

Number one basic training survival tip: Don't be first, don't be last, and never call attention to yourself. Be the grey man. Your staff should have to look at your name tag to know who you are.

The "dont volunteer" is bullshit, being quitet makes you stand out as a lazy asshole they want to light up. Laundry crew was legit, easy work and they left you alone.

Excuse me? I don't think I like what you're implying. I've got 4 years in, I have been course staff, right now I'm a Corporal doing a Seargents job in an operational theatre, and I worked 14 hours today and will likely work 15 tommorow. Not what I would call lazy.

There's a big difference between keeping your head down and being a shit pump. Your staff will keep you plenty busy, just do what you're told, speak when you're spoken to and avoid any unnecessary attention. You trade course (MOS training to you Yanks) is the time to stand out, basic is about learning self-discipline and teamwork.

I remember in basic everyone had told me dont volunteer, sit back and be unnoticed. then you get lit up for being lazy when you dont volunteer. Teh people who had volunteered are inside getting their work done while youre pushing the deck. Im saying in basic volunteer for the little jobs like laundry crew, staying back to clean the barracks, etc. All im saying is the advice many people gave me never helped.

Advice that would help is

bring Extra socks, razors, shaving cream, the little tide stain pens, etc, betetr ways to keep hold of your stuff (so many people take your crap.) etc.

Well time has passed and I have entered week 10 and have completed red, white, and blue phase. I am currently on my 36 hour pass right now and I only have 4 weeks left until graduation.
Infantry OSUT is HELL and words can not illustrate it.....

Being this is a gun forum i'll get to whats really important>>>

Weapons fired in OSUT

-M4 Carbine /w M68 Sight (my issued weapon)

-M240B

-M249 SAW

-M2HB .50

-MK19

-M16A2/w M203

-AT4 =GAY

-M67 Fragmentation Grenade


P.S.

Being assigned the M240 is a deathsentence on a ruckmarch....especially one that is 13.7 miles.....poor guy

How is the AT4 gay?

My cousin, the Navy Corpman, hates the AT-4 too (because it's a heavy sonofabitch that he sometimes has to carry)

Would it surprise anyone for me to say that I like the AT-4. I know it's a heavy one shot weapon with limited use...But for those times when you really want to just blow the $#!t out of something...It's really nice. I've got friends who have used TOW missiles to take out targets bunkered in Middle Eastern buildings and while it works like a charm, TOW missiles are difficult to lug around outside of a vehicle. There is the M72 LAW series but there are cases where they are just too light for the target.

The live one is actually pretty cool ,but all I got to shoot was the 9mm tracer version. Feels like your shooting a nerf gun or something...so it was a dissapointment.

Well, I heard they don't let you train with a live round unless you are absolutely a good shot. An AT4 costs a lot of money.

At least you use the AT4, you should see what our army is using:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/48/mara1wq0.jpg

http://www.saorbats.com.ar/GaleriaSa...CN9920_jpg.jpg

what is the fugly little thing?

Looks like an oversized M72 LAW with an RPG-7 warhead... :confused:

It´s a cheap response for the AT4 and M72 shortage, the Mara 78 mm:

http://www.segurancaedefesa.com/mara1.jpg

but I´d prefer the brazilian copy of the AT4, the Imbel ALAC:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7695/alacxu9.jpg

Good to hear back from you, AdAstra!

Interesting. Is that what I saw in the movie "Half Past Dead"?

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Half_..._M72_LAW.3F.29

Nopes, the rocket is packed inside the tubes:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kdcsVoFMTK...400/_0heli.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kdcsVoFMTK..._0btr60-01.jpg


And no, it´s not that fugly rocket launcher from Half Past Dead, the Mara wasn´t in production until 2005.

I'm back from Fort Benning now, done with graduation, and ready to get back to work here =D.

Because imfdb is exponentially more important than real life, right?:p

"sunlight is for suckers"

I've had 3 months of Action and Adventure, I think I can give it a rest for now.

So how was it?

It felt like prison or something .....except they gave us guns.

How was the food? Did it taste like school cafeteria food?

The food was plain but I'd be lying if I said it was bad.

did the spaghetti taste like ''army noodles and ketchup?''

Don't forget Tabasco. Everything tastes better with some of that spicy stuff

Thought I would drop a couple of photos from Basic (A contracted Professional photographer took these)

http://www.imfdb.org/images/9/98/240noheat.JPG
http://www.imfdb.org/images/2/2c/240noheat2.JPG
M240B minus heatshield
http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8a/Brmm4.JPG
BRM, guy in the photo is NOT me

I was going to ask if you were shy or something. But that 240 is a beauty

See how beautiful it is after carrying it 14 miles. Our Senior Drill Sergeant has never seen someone carry the M240 for the entire ruckmarch w/o having to hand it off to someone else the entire time he's been a DS.

Interesting thing they told us there:

If you disassemble an M240 while it is cocked you will be seriously injured.
They also told us that if we took apart the M2HB while it was cocked that the force from the spring shooting out would probably kill us.

Well the spring is under high tension

Guy from my unit back home did that with a C9. Still has the scar on his lip.