Not Work Safe .

Gunz said:
Regarding load-out, I can only speak for CAP units that lived continually in the bush and had to carry everything they needed. In addition to 782 gear, rifles, mags, flak jacket, extra bandoliers, knives, frags, full ruck, rations, two canteens, helmet (which we rarely wore but still had to carry), we had to share the weight of M60 ammo belts, HE and lume for two M79s, two radios and spare batteries, a dozen LAAWs, claymores, C4, smoke grenades, flares and a few other items I can’t remember, all told about 80-90 lbs a man—maybe more.

The reason we had to carry more than regular Marine infantry units is because the nearest ground react force for us was the nearest 12-man CAP unit. And since each CAP had roughly a 5-square klick AO, reinforcements could potentially be as far away as 8 or 9 klicks depending on relative position of each team. And if we were getting shot up bad enough and called for react, we had to have enough ammo to hold out. Generally our contacts were at night…so best case scenario, if the react unit was only a klick or so on the other side of the river, humping toward us in the dark with their full gear, chances are they’d get there in time to help with medevacs.

We had CAS and arty of course, but there was no reserve ground unit that could hop on helos and be at our poz in ten minutes.

Your assessments are probably correct, but I think small autonomous units operating independently in remote areas would be the exception.
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A-Stan 2002. My three man PSYOP team was attached to a SF team for my deployment, which included a USAF TACP.

Vehicles: soft skinned Humvees / and Toyota Trucks
Weapons: 50 cal / M240B / M249 SAW / M4's / M203 / M4 Benelli Shotgun / M9 pistols...a few locally acquired AKs
Armor: old Ranger plate armor, which we never wore...Standard Helmets, which we never wore.
Gear: LBE's, but we used personally bought Blackhawk chest rigs (wasn't much avail on the market at the time)
Misc: AT-4s (Min 2 per vehicle), Frags, Smoke, Flares, MBITR radios, SATCOM vehicle radios, PVS-7 NGV
Uniform: DCU Tri-color and civilian clothes. Ops inside 20 KM of safe house you only had to have one uniform item on...usually pants. Issued desert boots and civilian hiking boots, and baseball hats.
(Note: We took our DCU tops to the riggers who moved the bottom pockets to the upper arm, added velcro, and sewed glint tape to the shoulder area.)

QRF: was usually the four guys we left back at the safehouse with the remainder of the Afghan warlord guys. Air assets were a couple of hours away and ground support were about six hours away, minimum. Night was better, two AC-130s were up at night doing racetracks every night...weather permitting.

Iraq 2007: Typical big army issue gear, too much stuff you never used. Armor too big and clunky.
 
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Kraut783 said:
A-Stan 2002. My three man PSYOP team was attached to a SF team for my deployment, which included a USAF TACP.

Vehicles: soft skinned Humvees / and Toyota Trucks
Weapons: 50 cal / M240B / M249 SAW / M4's / M203 / M4 Benelli Shotgun / M9 pistols...a few locally acquired AKs
Armor: old Ranger plate armor, which we never wore...Standard Helmets, which we never wore.
Gear: LBE's, but we used personally bought Blackhawk chest rigs (wasn't much avail on the market at the time)
Misc: AT-4s (Min 2 per vehicle), Frags, Smoke, Flares, MBITR radios, SATCOM vehicle radios, PVS-7 NGV
Uniform: DCU Tri-color and civilian clothes. Ops inside 20 KM of safe house you only had to have one uniform item on...usually pants. Issued desert boots and civilian hiking boots, and baseball hats.
(Note: We took our DCU tops to the riggers who moved the bottom pockets to the upper arm, added velcro, and sewed glint tape to the shoulder area.)

QRF: was usually the four guys we left back at the safehouse with the remainder of the Afghan warlord guys. Air assets were a couple of hours away and ground support were about six hours away, minimum. Night was better, two AC-130s were up at night doing racetracks every night...weather permitting.

Iraq 2007: Typical big army issue gear, too much stuff you never used. Armor too big and clunky.
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If there is such a thing as a "good war" it was Afghanistan until about 2006. MG Olsen from 25th ID changed all of that and started us on our path to ruin.
 
AWP said:
If there is such a thing as a "good war" it was Afghanistan until about 2006. MG Olsen from 25th ID changed all of that and started us on our path to ruin.
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Absolutely. What’s not to like about the slaughter of jihadists and revenge for 9/11. If they’d kept it focused on that and gave finger to all the rest of the bullshit, maybe they would’ve caught up with UBL a few years sooner.

We always have to fuck things up by trying to be good.
 
Muppet said:
Philly region calling for 4 to 6. Folks loosing their fucking minds like it's the movie, the day after tomorrow.

Like every year, we are PA, we get snow. With your French toast emergencies. Lol.
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I'm in NoVa, and people here can't drive when its not snowing. You know how dangerous they become when there's 5 inches on the ground?

RackMaster said:
Just another Monday, November-April, up here.
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But can you drive around in the snow with an SBR with a suppressor attached???
 
Muppet said:
Philly region calling for 4 to 6. Folks loosing their fucking minds like it's the movie, the day after tomorrow.

Like every year, we are PA, we get snow. With your French toast emergencies. Lol.
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NGL, that sounds super comfy. It'll be snowing outside and the house will smell like butter, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

french toast dessert GIF


After heavy snows I'm partial to pancakes, bacon, and spearmint tea. Then shoveling snow for the sake of shoveling snow. It's nice.

Random meme:
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