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Weaver wrote:I love that feeling - tired from an exercise, constantly re-playing the contact in your head, re-hashing the tactics, and trying to ramp yourself down so you aren't tempted to go all tactical when the wife shuts a cabinet door too hard.
Weaver wrote:By the way - did you see me on the NRK program about the PRT in Meymanah?
http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/prosjekt/2225/
I'm in Episode 6, at about 1:40 - being interviewed prior to a "ramp ceremony" when we sent the body of one of our killed home.
I was interviewed a couple other times by that filmmaker - not sure if the footage made it into the program though.
Weaver wrote:Yeah, I got the torrent from another friend on another site - downloaded it, intend to burn it to disks to distribute to friends and family. Still need to scan through to see if I'm anywhere else in the series.
Weaver wrote:Thanks!
Varangian wrote:Heh, there might be a difference between those who were in it for a short time and those who had it as a career for 20+ years. I would probably prefer to move on, too. I did my ten months as a conscripted corporal in the motorized infantry back in the end years of the Cold War; living close to the Soviet Union was a great motivator. Now the Russians are about to upgrade their armed forces, and unlike some, I don't think that the current status quo will last (mostly because it isnt really quo)...
Tursas wrote:Varangian wrote:Heh, there might be a difference between those who were in it for a short time and those who had it as a career for 20+ years. I would probably prefer to move on, too. I did my ten months as a conscripted corporal in the motorized infantry back in the end years of the Cold War; living close to the Soviet Union was a great motivator. Now the Russians are about to upgrade their armed forces, and unlike some, I don't think that the current status quo will last (mostly because it isnt really quo)...
What, they don't think the little country between you and Russia isn't enough of a buffer zone anymore?
Well, maybe we aren't. I had a compulsory refresher course just last month, and the age of the equipment is starting to show... Lugging those old AN/PRC-77s and Racal BCC39s around made me wonder what kind of radios modern militaries use in let's say, a recon squad?
Tursas wrote:Varangian wrote:Heh, there might be a difference between those who were in it for a short time and those who had it as a career for 20+ years. I would probably prefer to move on, too. I did my ten months as a conscripted corporal in the motorized infantry back in the end years of the Cold War; living close to the Soviet Union was a great motivator. Now the Russians are about to upgrade their armed forces, and unlike some, I don't think that the current status quo will last (mostly because it isnt really quo)...
What, they don't think the little country between you and Russia isn't enough of a buffer zone anymore?
Well, maybe we aren't. I had a compulsory refresher course just last month, and the age of the equipment is starting to show... Lugging those old AN/PRC-77s and Racal BCC39s around made me wonder what kind of radios modern militaries use in let's say, a recon squad?
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