Are old NG riflemen on that list?
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If we're on deployment and someone like me is killing anything other than time and the competition in Call of Duty, it's pretty much a bad day for everyone.
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There is a 6-12 month wait list for kids wanting to sign up as Infantrymen, we're having no problem growing our own.
Yes, but do they have black BDU's, black trucks and their own civilian operator SAPI plates? I think not.
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They say snipers, I imagine they'd only be looking at Sergeant Sniper Supervisors though and again there are like 8 or 9 jobs in the Army for those. So they might take one, or two. Then they'd post them to the school of foot and then into a Battalion as a Rifle Platoon Sergeant...
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I was busting his balls. I imagine they want someone Royal Marine Sniper/US SF/qual'd or equivalent as a minimum.
Forgive the ignorance but are RM snipers quite highly regarded?
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Very.
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Booties are generally highly regarded, a lot of them end up stepping up in 2 Commando and SASR. Although I don't think they are generally coming across in this lateral transfer system, they are coming here as immigrants and fast tracking through a normal enlistment. Rob Maylor is one example, he wrote SAS Sniper
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One of our guys recently went across.. Did time in the RM's before coming home and joining the Irish. Did time in our SOF and now is in the Aus DF ..
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On base here at JBLM, I talked to an officer (don't know from what unit) who said there are Aussie recruiters in the AO. Scuttlebutt I know, but interesting.
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Having worked for/ with RAAF/ RAN types, I wouldn't hesitate to go to there if I had the chance. I can't speak to things like funding or training, but on a personal and professional level they were a pleasure to work with. I think what sealed the deal was when a Flight Lieutenant called a USAF Captain a cunt and told him to "dry his tears"...in a briefing.
xGenoSiide
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Oh to have been a fly on the wall in that room...
The contractors started laughing before we caught ourselves. The various airpeople in the room emitted muffled laughs, snorts, and gasps. The Aussie looked as though he'd told us the weather forecast or some mundane, well-known topic, and the target just stood there and didn't know what to say. He started to stammer some outrage when another AF officer swooped in and continued the brief.
That was one Air Battle Manager who wished he was back in AWACS. To be fair, the Capt. needed to dry his tears. He was complaining, nay whining, about issues no one could control and that the Aussies had worked through for well over a year. He wasn't receptive to the Aussie message and paid the price.
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Those guys actually come to my school for presentations for the Network Security and Digital Forensics Students (data miners), if it's the correct program New Zealand's Defense Force is involved with that same recruiting program. As is Taiwon and Switzerland, at school tomorrow I'll ask one of the guys at my school who's going to the NZDF this summer what the program he enlisted for was called. They came in and picked up several of the Network Security and a couple of the Digital Forensics tracked students. If it's the same program.
