A Visit to the US Army Heavy Weapons Leaders' Course
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2021
- HWLC is a course designed to educate troops on the technical and tactical employment of weapons to be found in the heavy weapons company of the infantry battalion. They also have a habit of bringing guest speakers in, so they asked me to drop by. While I was there, I thought I'd make a video of my time...
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I always enjoy seeing The Chieftain but I have to admit it was fascinating seeing Lieutenant Colonel Moran
I honestly cant tell the difference. Cheeky Irish guy teaches people "shtuff".
@@alankucar8025 The difference is tone. Chieftain is, "this is cool." Lt. Col. Moran is, "this may save your life."
@@jeffreypierson2064 Thats not a differnce of character but a difference of context.
I swear when Nicholas Moran sees Sofilein his Chieftain rises.😏
Yeah this lieutenant colonel Moran guy seems kinda familiar. But he looks kinda different. Maybe because he’s just a floating head
"A word from our sponsors" is how you trigger somebody's fight or flight response in a youtube video.
"When my unit is stuck at the rear of a convoy traffic jam, I like to play RAID SHADOW LEGENDS-"
@@Tinblitz I was just about to say "with my referral link you get 30,000 silver and a free hero"
Makes my hand twitch towards the right arrow key.
Not when you've got SponsorBlock™
More like somebody's skip forward or flight response
Whenever the anti-tank rock is bought up I'm always reminded of a favorite qoute: "When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-schmanzy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon-and we had to share the rock!" - Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson (UNSCMC - Halo 2)
Vietnamese rice farmers: "First time?"
I heard he knows what the ladies like.
@@ThePTBRULES and the ladies like "66 tons of straight-up, HE-spewing dee-vine intervention!"
@@cynicalmedic252 “if god is love, you can call me Cupid!”
I think of Forgotten Weapons French LMP 1889 video.
This further proves the point that everybody loves the Carl Gustaf. It also proves the point, that every time a demonstration of it is done, there should be at a minimum, two dudes filming the magnificense.
What I love best is that despite all the protestations, all the insistence on the power of modern technology, we still really haven't found major improvements on the M2 Browning, the Mk19 40mm, or the simple Carl-Gustav. Sure, we can stick a bunch of computers on them to make it a bit easier to aim and all, but the weapons themselves are still pretty much the same things our grandfathers and even great-grandfathers were working with.
@@genericpersonx333 "There is a timeless elegance in the simplicity", is a good sales pitch for each of those pieces of kit :)
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Could add the M16 to that list as well. A few incremental improvements but still basically the same weapon.
@@johngalt2506 For sure! A lot of cosmetic changes between M16 and the present carbines today, with all those computers and fancy gadgets, but still the same basic gun underneath!
There is a maximum of three rounds per shooter per exercise. At least this is how Swedes use it in training. More is considered a dangerous risk during peacetime. It can jellified innards.
It’s nice to see that no one, even up to a highly-trained Lt. Colonel, is immune to forgetting to disengage the safety.
Gun Jesus is renowned for it.
Better to forget to disengage it, than to forget to engage it.
I rather have "Misfire! Safety catch." than "Negligent discharge"
I like the use of "What are your questions?" in lieu of "Are there any questions?".
I'm going to have to use that.
I've enjoyed the "Chieftain" but I glad I got to see LtCol. Moran too, do you know Dr Richard S. Faulkner? He is a retired Armor Officer at Command and General Staff College, I have watched and enjoyed all his lectures like "The Birth of Combined Arms" and my favorite, I forgot the title but was how the U.S. mobilized during WW1, if you could get him and make joint lecture I think it would break the internet.
Real weird to not hear him say "Greetings, all!" though
0:12 i know right .. can you believe hes a lt col .. my god we are screwed lol
Awesome. Chieftain’s stone cold, no flinch at all with the Carl Gustav.
I guess when you're used to firing 120mm cannons a CG is comparatively puny.
It was a sub-calibre training round. Witness the removal of the same device that was loaded. Caught me out to to start with.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me, the Charlie G redefines the meaning of "boom stick"
Hey Gilly, your name sounds familiar.
Are you a member of the Black Pants Legion?
@@nickdougan394 Yep, and judging by the smoke signature, it looks like they use the same cartridge at the rear of the round that we used to simulate a TOW firing.
Such a satisfied smile after saying "I get to blow stuff up" is so classic.
Okay, seriously, who decided the flags needed to be behind the lectern, obscuring the screen? Stick 'em vertical in the corner of the room and make every pixel of the lesson easy to see.
18:40 Someone must have known how bad his slides were. No more than seven text lines, sir, that's pedagogical doctrine for good reason.
Flags more important.
Why do the flags even need to be there? I'm fairly sure everyone already knew what country they were in given they were members of one of that countries many armed forces. Couldn't they just stick it in the corner or next to the door?
Regarding all the comments about the lack of questions. From my own experience I can say that after a hard day/week/month of training, you just wanna go home/to bed. Especially when the lecture is the last point of the day, nobody will dare to ask questions, so you can get of duty faster, thats just how it is from my experience.
That doesnt mean they havent listened or understood what had been lectured.
And for all the keyboard warriors who havent been in this situation. It is completly different watching this in your spare time on YT than beeing command to attend after a hard day.
This seems like it might be a mistake to have the educational seminar at the end of the day. If the attendees are worn out from hard training, how much knowledge are they actually absorbing?
@@MalikCarr Well, the knwoledge is suposed to be delivered in the training/course. These talks/lectures in the ende are usually just fodder for thought. But i get what you mean.
You can always count on junior officers to ask plenty of questions because nobody yells at them for being on their phones during lectures :)
@@MalikCarr Well, he did start his talk with: "Good morning", so I have to assume that this was the last session before lunch, albeit on the last day of the course.
Most likely, the next item on the schedule was the walk across the stage for getting the certificate of completion, followed by dismissal to lunch.
I don't think that for all of the institutional inefficiency, the Army is quite so stupid as to schedule anything other than a pass in review and a beer bust for that Friday afternoon when things are done.
I joined the Army as an 11H back in 1999 and I was in when they consolidated 11B/11M/11H into one MOS. It was a train wreck. My first PSG had been an 11H for 17 years and he knew everything about the job. My second PSG was a career 11B and his subordinates had to teach him everything about the job. We got constantly miss used and deployed wrong because higher ups didn’t understand heavy weapons. I’m very glad the Army has brought back a version of the TOW gunnery course.
What was the reasoning behind the consolidation? If any?
@@robertl6196 Quick googling popped up this article around it's history:
mwi.usma.edu/highly-specialized-highly-lethal-army-replace-one-size-fits-infantry-model/
It also contains links to older stuff(including when that particular reorganization took place).
@@llllib Thanks. Good stuff.
I suppose we will find out if this "new, improved" system works if the trouble with China goes wobbly. That's seems to be the path of history.
I was actually pretty angry to be an 11B. My initial contract was for 11H. They were still giving 11H contracts in 2001. I’ll say this, we hit gold on the line in Iraq when the Hotels started shifting out of our Battalion AT.
The worst thing the Army ever did was get rid of the 11Ms and 11Hs. The Army has Stryker, heavy mech, and light infantry/ Airborne/Air Assault. They should have the infantry specializing in specific things their whole career instead of bouncing from one unit type to another and only being decent at everything instead of experts at one thing
Came here to see the Chieftain, glad to have seen Lt Col Nicholas Moran. Excellent, very informative, very thought provoking.
I am shocked that you were not flooded with questions. An incredible lack of curiosity concerning life and death situations. Of their own!
all it takes is a long week and people wanting to go home. sure, we would have bombarded him with questions but most likely in a scenario in which we are not ordered to be there.
for us he is the chieftain, for so many others he is just "some random field grade chatting at them".
trained not to ask questions
@@fredjones5698 Thats just not true. The former reply hits the mark. Bin there done that. After an exhausting Day/week/month you just want to go home. Doesnt matter how interesting the subject is.
@@ColonelAckerson117 I see your point but The Chieftain, a former tanker, is so out of touch with the present day military, that he is left visibly surprised and disappointed?
@@albertjurcisin8944 Moran is still a serving officer in the National Guard, at battalion command level, Lieutenant Colonel, also he is taking the piss at the end
Nice talk Chief, more of these would be nice.
0:02 MORE DAKKA PLX
Is unnecessary i expect but consider this a strong second
Have to say, this was the most interesting "word from sponsors and product placement" i got thrown at me in a YT video for a while!
Being from a different (and even neutral) country i'm not even the target audience, although i spot a quality german screwdriver at 6:47 😁 So maybe i am the target audience.
A nice firepower display is always appreciated.
Wera has a hot air balloon in the shape of a Phillips-Head screwdriver. :D
Love how the Chieftain's sense of humour and turn of phrase never changes even in official lectures.
I was a Master Gunner /Senior Instructor for AOB 90-93 at Knox.
This was one of the best presentations I've seen, ever. Thanks.
Please do more of these if possible! Your lectures are utterly fascinating to watch :D
Carl Gustaf, take one of these, 6 times a day until you feel better than the enemy.
The Egyptian Sagger gunners who crossed over the Suez Canal in 1973 had each fired 100 live rounds in training.
If I'm not totally mistaken, the peacetime max for firing the C-G was 24 in 24 hours, when I was a gunner in the Danish Army. Wouldn't recommend it! My "personal best" was 12, 6 as a gunner and 6 as a loader, prior to deploying to the former Yugoslavia with the UN. After the last 3 grenades fired I found it rather difficult to breathe, and was banned from firing any more 🤥
33:09 even though he's said it before, but it's still kinda sobering to know that in the amount of time a missile will need to travel and reach its destination, the target may have enough time to spot, aim, then reach out and touch you.
Kinda reminds me of an old saying "if your target is within your range so are you" that a buddy of mine who was in the Army told me.
@@mwhyte1979 that’s a military maxim
@@looinrims kinda like we maintainers in the Air Force always said "if it's dumb and works it's not dumb".
@@mwhyte1979 that’s also an old saying going back foeva
@@mwhyte1979 Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
As a (former) tactical commander I am a firm believer in the following axiom:
If there are no questions, there is a likelyhood bordering to certainty, that what was said is not understood.
Or people want to go home after a busy day.
...or their brains are already full and they are processing what has already been learned or experienced. If the lecture were held at the beginning of the day, I would bet that there would be more interaction. Then there may also be some post concussive effects of shooting heavy weapons.
@@Glove513 I believe, the fact, that slides didn't work properly didn't help either.
This is a certainty. I experienced this in my university calculus and higher math classes. The question everyone wants to ask is "could you repeat everything but make it makes sense? "Algebraic Topology" sounds like you just made that up to F**k with us. As does "partial decomposition of fractions" and "synthetic division"."
"I thought you might appreciate a moment of gratuitous firepower"
Oh Chieftain, you know us too well.
“The navy invented the tank.”
That must have been a bitter pill to swallow for some of the audience.
It was originally called Land Ship. But the design and research team of the British gave it a code word for deception. The called it the "Water Carrier Commission". From there it became the "Water Tank Commission", and from there just simple "Tank Commission". That's how we ended up with "Tank".
Because Churchill at the time was First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, he played a large part in pushing the project through to fruition.
@@ClodiusP The reason it changed it's name, apocryphal of course, to the Water Tank Commission is because Water Carrier could be shortened to W.C. which in British English (not sure about elsewhere) is another name for a toilet. This being England in the 1910s that _absolutely_ would not do but because they were also sailors they changed it to Water Tank Commission, with water tank being another name for the cistern, because that way they could get away with toilet humour and have plausible deniability.
Troops Nick is talking to: "ughhh so boring"
Me: "Those lucky bastards get to see a speech from the Chieftain in person!"
Oh, hey, they're using the JLTVs!
I was expecting the school to still have Humvees.
Edit: congratulations, Colonel Moran! For another talk like this, I'd compare the TD branch to the Attack Helicopter battalions.
Chieftain, any old warrior will always appreciate a moment of gratuitous firepower!!!!! OORAH! (old jarhead here)
It will be 30 years since I was a tanker and almost 20 since I retired and I still find this stuff interesting. Thanks for posting
'I get to blow stuff up.'
A simple, respectable opinion. I like it! :D
"you can shoot up to 6 rounds in a 24 hour period"
I was a Gustav gunner in 3rd Ranger battalion, I can tell you, on training days, that goes out the window when you have 3 gunners and dozens of rounds to fire.
Is the limit because of noise exposure?
The limit is usually range time or ammunition.
@@chipholland9 From what I gather from the video, it is a limit based more on the safe amounts of overpressure the human body can absorb. Firing recoiless rifles, and any large rifle really, puts out a pressure wave which the human body is not designed to handle. If somone who knows more thinks I'm wrong or misrepresenting something here, please correct me.
@@chipholland9 It is overpressure caused by the explosive force and brain function caused by the concussive force on your brain and organs. If you are at a distance you can see it if there is dust in the air. as it fires.
Depending on where you are standing, it can hurt, a lot, It kinda feels like your skin is tearing if you are at a certain distance from it. Just do not be in the back blast area, I have never been in it but from the side, you can see what happens if there is anything behind it such as grass or dirt.
Question: As I understand it, the AT-4 is in essence a single-shot, disposable version of the Gustav. So, in an infantry platoon which has Gustav in the weapons squad, why carry AT-4, as opposed to having the same soldier carry an extra HEAT shell or two for the Gustav?
LTC Moran: loved your lecture! Please consider tactical content like that -- historical and modern -- for us more generally!
This is very cool, thank you the Chieftain. Very glad to learn new things.
That was fascinating and insightful, thank you so much for recording and sharing! :)
Chieftain, so jealous you got to meet SFC "Moose" Eldredge, dude is a beast and one of the best Small Arms Master Gunners in the Army.
Those infantry guys are like "Who's this tanker guy and are we suppose to be impressed?"
The answer is yes
When the fuck did this become a thing. I actually think this is good. My 6 years in ranger batt and 82nd I knew of two officers that knew how to maintain/disassemble a 50 and my 19.
Thank you Chieftain. I'd just finished a 2 hour War Thunder tank session and your talk was the perfect debriefing I needed for what I'd got right and wrong. Bravo.
Thank you sir, that was most interesting and thank you also to the US Army for making it available.
great content, informative as ever! love your stuff
I like the new format for the gun of the month with his Q/A videos.
Nicholas, thanks very much for this, it was a really interesting video and great to see you working in your military role.
My artilleryman’s heart is broken: no discussion of using a howitzer to reach out and touch the enemy. :-(
Let the weapons that the bad guys can not see cause “severe emotional distress” first, without exposing you to their fire.
Then engage them with direct fires.
I did mention arty at the very end as a counter-ATGM system
@@TheChieftainsHatch I missed that
Highly informative as always!
I geeked slightly when held the Carl Gustav in one hand.
First response was "Frak".
Second was let's see you do that with the '90's version.
I think it's made of composite materials these days - not the steel back-breaker of yesteryear.
A quick Wikipedia check, the Charlie G M2 used to weigh in at 14.2kg, while the latest model is less than half that at 6.6kg (or almost 17lbs lighter) and 7" shorter. It's gone on a serious diet
An ex-Para friend used to jump with the M2, as if just carrying it on the battlefield wasn't hard enough
@@recce8619 That's even more of a weight reduction than the video suggested - the Master Sjt made 6.6kg look quite heavy! The backblast/overpressure is presumably no better, maybe worse.
@@nickdougan394 The one weighing 6.6kg is the m4 version, the one they are using is the m3 version which weighs 9.5kg(21 lb)
Great lecture, thank you very much for sharing it with us!
Glued to my screen watching this. Thanks Chief!
I'm only commenting to say the intro was fucking awesome, the lecture made me rue my educational path, and that blowing stuff up is a simple pleasure I would never tire of.
You would tire of the cheese eating NCOs the ruthless politicking of the FRG and idiotic toxic leadership
Every vet remembers the fun of blowing stuff up, not everyone remembers the *mandatory* fun
This was an excellent lecture, thankyou for sharing!
Sharing hard earned knowledge so a comrade in arms can survive in the future is one of the greatest thing a soldier can do.
Now we know where that glib and flowing 'voice over' comes from. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice lecture. I wish i would have had some like these when i was in the belgian army. Granted, as a vehicle mechanic i wasn't expected to go and fight on the battlefield, but realistically speaking, an ambush was not unlikly.
I especially liked how they get a tanker to speak to anti tank crews. Inter service cooperation can only help in understanding and finding the best (counter)tactics, a win win for everybody
I really enjoyed the talks. Thanks.
My MOS was 11H from 1981 to 1999, and was proficient with, and utilized the TOW, M67 RR, and the Carl Gustav. I was in Echo 1/48 Infantry, 3rd AD from 1986 to 1989. Nice to have gotten the shout out by the NCOIC.
Excellent presentation Irish.
No questions? feels like this a Friday afternoon?
Nice, LtC Moran...
Thanks for letting us in to see that; and I guess thanks to the US Army for letting you let us in.
Well Colonel Nick, congratulations on the promotion! Had you been lecturing the British Army in my day there would have been at least a couple of friendly questions planted to avoid that slightly embarrassing silence when you asked for questions.
I was impressed by the relaxed insouciance with which you were firing the Charlie G when it clicked that you were firing sub-calibre rounds of some descritpion. I blame the "84" for my poor hearing! A dozen of those far worse than tens of thousands of 7.62 and 5.56mm rounds.
Great video as always
The 'Sagger' is still out there, and new ones are still being made. In my opinion the Malyutka is still the best 'defensive' ATGM. The launcher can be set up behind cover, and the operator only has to have LOS from a small periscope. And can make fallow up shots with just the flick of a switch. 'up to 4 launchers can be slaved to one operator' ''maybe more with newer units''. And the operator and launcher don't have to be in the same spot. 'up to 50m apart' And it's cheap and light.
Just hope that your target is asleep or he's not very alert bcuz he's alert you your laucher and your cover would disappear in the next couple seconds along with your buddies.
@@gotanon8958 One, the launcher doesn't need LOS, so many tons of dirt between the target and launcher as the missile flies over the cover. And the only thing anyone will see is the rocket flare come at them. And as for buddies, they don't have to be any where near all this.
@@Jackelmandingo Looks kinda like crap to me. The early version had a dinky little scope with no thermals or any kind of nightvision so good luck hitting anything at night or during inclement weather. Plus the early version were MACLOS with abysmal hit ratios according to the wiki. Also how can you be behind tons of dirt when the scope is like 6 inches long. At most it lets you peer above a tiny bit of cover. Today with advanced sighting systems and programmable air burst rounds that can be set to blow up above trenches that 6 inches of cover isn't gonna save you.
@@huntforandrew The part your missing is the launcher is behind the cover. And all you maybe see is the top of a very small periscope that is hard to see even with thermals. And you can use cameras, thermals, nightvision the same as you would with the Mk 1 eyeball. And the vehicle mounted missiles have all that. What I'm talking about is the "ONE'' guy in the foxhole you most likely not seeing getting 4 quick shots off at you. Heck the thing can be set up as a boobytrap like mine. Hit the tripwire/laser. Then boom 'ATGM claymore'. And every OPfor we may have to fight has them, even some of our friends.
@@Jackelmandingo the fastest sagger is still slower than 200m/s, most are still around 120m/s. even the modern ones are radio controled or wire-guided instead of laserbeam riding or fire and forget. this means you are not going to get 4 quick shots off from one operator, especially since the missile has 'eratic' flight due to its aerodynamics the thing *will* fly off course unless the operator forces it to say on course (meaning you have to babysit each missile to the target). the missile is also considered hard to use by most sources due to this erratic flight (as well as its minimum range of 500m)
lets just say there is a reason the soviets, and later russians, developed other missiles...
The beginning of the talk was great, funny but no one laughed, tough crowd. A solid and excellent presentation.
Awesome talk, I wish my UTAs were this interesting!
I wasn't aware you'd made Lt. Col. Congratulations, sir!
Very interesting. Thanks as always sir!
I would love to see more of these
I really enjoyed watching the lecture
Can you just give more lectures on this channel? I could (and would) watch/listen to you give lectures on doctrine, history, or even paint drying.
Those are some interesting vehicles. Really shows how long it's been since I've seen modern military tech in action. My mental image is still of the US Army using the old Hummer style Humvees.
Very good Speaking! Of Course the Technic Equipment struggles right at the Moment of Truth. Maybe Every Soldier who ever had to speak and teach something in Front of other Comrades, might have experienced such Situation. But you worked greatly around it =)
Hey Army, take a page from the USMC. You guys are doing a great thing creating this course and you should keep it up. It's so good that you guys created this period of instruction to better train your force and make more lethal fighters. Don't continue to make the mistake we are considering doing and getting rid of specialized weapons company MOS's to generalize your force. Trying to make one person responsible for rifles, grenade launchers, DMR's, all types of machine guns, all types of mortars, and all types of rocket launchers isn't that good of an idea because too many people are going to end up being lost in the sauce and forgetting "that one thing they're supposed to do to effectively employ that one weapon system". Forget that, bring back the old 11-series MOS's.
A Carl being fired without a Swede nearby screaming "Skott kommer! Klart bakåt!" feels spiritually wrong.
So much love for the CG. I note they now only let you shoot X rounds a day. Old enough that that was not a thing when I shot one.
“Know the enemy, and know yourself, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles”
Useful stuff as I've been having discussions recently around the good ol' "tanks are obsolete" gang again. Been arguing with Internet commentators about why reducing challenger numbers even further is a bad idea...
I feel like 17:08 is the Cadian Armor motto
The Who?
@@looinrims Warhammer reference.
No questions?
Let me guess; either lunch or home time immediately followed your presentation. ;-)
1:07 - I just love when two guy fire and four others video them. The Zeitgeist :)))
(And yes, I would be videoing too :) )
They were just awestruck by your presence.
Nice talk, nice gratuitous firepower demo. Thanks.
A national treasure, it broke my heart to see them ruin his brief without the power point!
The rock broke before the track did man that formation of words just give me PTSD about the fall of Cadia.
Clears throat THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID.
Something went really wonky with the notifications here, I had this show up on my home page, clicked Set Reminder, clicked on the thumbnail to see if it'd give me a countdown so I don't have to convert to AEST and lo and behold, Premiered 65 minutes ago.
Wat?
Declassified Anti-Tank Rock is my favorite genre of rock.
Your sponsor sold me! I'd like 1 Carl Gustov in case my neighbor decides to invade my property with his tanks, do they take credit cards? lol
(and yes my neighbor actually does have tanks, a whole museum in fact)
Good to see they take the Gustav's backblast damage effect into consideration while training. It sounds to me that even a few rounds of that can potentially mess you up.
They suggest 7 rounds within 24hrs would damage your organs
So, yeah watch yourself
No blast on the M3 Carl G is because they are firing TP141 ammo or the subcal 7.62mm device. Fire a combat ammo of HEAT, HE, ASM or HEDP and you'll get lots of blast! ADM gives you anti personal (bearings or flettchets)
nice to see the carl there, we use to have the 90 mm's in the engineers through the miid 90's. They were heavy long and just after a few rounds you would have blood in your urine. The two of us on our tube were 1 and 2 for the 7.62 subcal, so we each got to fire 6. together we fired 12 and the TM said 3 a day due to the over pressure. No one knew that until I read through the TM when I became the armorer for C co 8th engineers.
Loved it
As a swede, having trained on the Carl Gustaf AT-recoilless rifle, I miss the command words in the handling of it, such as the gunners: "Ladda" (load), "Skott kommer" (shot on the way) and the loaders: "Klart bakåt" (clear behind) and I can't help but be worried by how rarely the loader was looking to see that the area behind was clear ;)
The guy who loaded the .50 be enjoying nice jams. Screwing the belt like that
The Mk 19 and Goose are the two coolest things that I have had a chance to handle. Nothing give us crunchies the edge that those do.
This is great
A warning to all US NCOs: don’t let LTC Moran tell you to speak in front of the camera since he’ll put you in the blooper reel.
Now for a little bit of product placement.
This is the carl gustaf.
Me: ooooooo
The Army never misses a recruiting opportunity.
"focus on Israel" and "that's why we have army historians" you sound like me trying to tell people how to read Wikipedia ; )
Comments will now be poisoned by that mention xD
Why not learn from somebody else
I learned that the U.S. military can produce fantastic historians after using the local universitie's library for a military history paper or three.
@@Whatever611 i wasn't implying that we shouldn't, absolutely we can learn lessons from others mistakes..
Sfc Eldrich (I'm probably misspelling that, sorry) has served almost the exact same amount of time with the exact same rank my father had when he retired, I bet his career has followed a similarly unique path to put him in that place. Interesting coincidence given it's Father's Day.
You don't have the IHWCU yet? They'll change your life, I'm never wearing the ACU again.
Was for ever before they started stocking in my size. I have one set, which I’m wearing only in hot weather.
Moment of gratuitous firepower, Appreciated.
You are a good speaker, I really can't judge the factual correctness but that is not the point speaking is a lot more than just rambling facts.