Posted: Jun 12, 2011 1:30 pm
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?
You have PRC-77s???!!! I haven't seen one of them since '91! What a clunker.
We mostly use Harris PRC-148s now - having gone through SINCGARS, ASIPs, and some that came and went so quick I never learned them.