with a little bit of, uh uhand a little bit of, uh uh
>shitting on someone's shitter
My favorite wigger
>>61555407
>>61555407>AND A LIL BIT OF CHICKEN FRIED
>>61555407>yfw the sand was very evil
If i join the marines will people sing with me after traumatic events?
>>61557358>you get the haji's bitchin daughter
>>61557431>be me>2009 in high school>was thinking about joining the army to be a paratrooper>see a Marine recruiter one day in my school>really like his uniform>talk to him and start going to the Poole PT events>decide to join the Marines>want to do 03 but recruiter tells me that I should be a radioman instead, and that I would be attached with the infantry but I would work their comms>sure that sounds cool>sign for a Comms open contract (thats what he suggested)>Find out I was given 0651 Data Network Specialist>literally IT help desk>first year, assigned to non-deployable unit in Lejune>work night shift, answering phone calls when someone can't access Outlook>everyone in my unit (shift) are nerds and still play WoW>thats all the talk about>last year in the Marines, get sent on a MEU deployment>we go into the Persian Gulf and because of ISIS, many from our fleet get sent ashore to Iraq>but not me>rest of my data platoon goes>they left me on the ship to keep the ship network goingNobody sang for me
>>61557667feels
Seriously, how did they make GK so perfect?
LET THE HAJIS HIT THE FLOOR
>>61557667THAT EXCEL SPREADSHEET WASN'T YERS TO LOSE
>>61557667have the (You) your government never gave you
>>61555407How did this war turn out?
>>61557667i know its the wrong date but im imagining you singing no1 victory royale pitifully on a completely empty ship
>>61556669>Gooood damnit Ray. No country music.
>>61559194The middle east got fucked
>>61559953What optic did Iceman have?
>>61560013AN/PVS 17
>>61559185>be me again>on amphibious assault ship in the Persian Gulf>rest of my Data platoon goes ashore to Iraq and Kuwait>While they are gone, I was instructed to do inventory to make sure everything checks out>harddrive is missing>look everywhere for it>spend 12 fucking hours going through everything>over and over again>squad leader calls the ship the next day>I let him know I can't find a hard drive>he yells at me and says I need to find it or i'm totally fucked because that is SSI>I'm fucking stressed>spend another 17 hours repeadtedly going through everything>can't find it>feel defeated>next day>squad leader calls again>I tell him i can't find it>him : "Oh yeah, it's in our comms kit that we brought with us, we noticed it yesterday right after I got off the phone with you">didn't bother to call and tell me this after me losing my mind searching all fucking day and night>I hung up on him without saying a word>5 days later when they return to the ship>Same squad leader chews my ass for hanging up the phone on him
can someone explain why Trombley was even with 1st Recon during a fucking military campaign? he didn't even do BRC
>>61560518The book explains some of the absurdities a bit better.Basically, the unit we see in the show is a hodgepodge of real hardass recon marines(Brad, Rudy, etc) trained to do all sorts of glownigger ops being reinforced with desk jockey officers(cpt America, Godfather) and regular marines(Trombley) to fill out gaps and being used as tip of the spear assault units, ironically cpt America was right to freak out.
>>61557667at least you can make beaucoup bucks after instead of having a couple similarly frustrating stories of standing around not shooting anything and nothing to show for it after
>>61557667>wants to sign to do infantry shit >customarily fucked over by his recruiter>does not get assigned to a frontline unit and gets given a pog job insteadmf lives in bizzaro world
>>61557667Fix that router, Devil Dog.
>>61557667Not too fine not too course. You’re literally the guy from black hawk down. (Obi wan kenobi’s actor forget his name)
>>61562868*coarse, It's all about the grind, Ranger.
>>61560518>>61560591when you really think about it. it's a fucking miracle that they didn't get absolutely wiped. Their only saving grace was that fact that the Iraqis were even more incompetent than them. But if they had went up with a near peer, they would have all died.
>>61564247I think it was the prevailing obsession with shock and awe tactics pushing the us to use these ill advised shock assaults.IIRC some units advanced over the border before they could be assured air support.The amazing thing was that it actually fucking worked because the Iraqis just couldn't figure out where the fuck the coalition speartip was(because they barely knew themselves lol).Also a fun anecdote I heard was when at the start of the bombing campaign the US decided to drop propaganda leaflets in horrible Arabic onto Iraqi units, which was ineffective to say the least.However, they accurately dropped those canisters on almost every single Iraqi command position, making IQ officers shit themselves when they realised that the Americans know where they were exactly.
>>61564258>I think it was the prevailing obsession with shock and awe tactics pushing the us to use these ill advised shock assaultsthey went into Iraq under equipped and undertrained. Unarmored humvees? If they had been fighting a near peer, they would have been totally fucked.
>>61555407As a Ukrainian, I started rewatching it yesterday, and oh boy did I find it relatable. Even a lot of the equipment is the same. Those tents, buying your own stuff all the time, that loud zampolit, the captain America. We used to have all that.The difference of course is how young and disciplined the Americans are. That's a professional army for you. With that level of competence they'd succeed where we failed, even without CAS and stuff.
>>61564272How prevalent is "Soviet brain" thinking in the modern UAF? I always hear about old core officers misunderstanding how to use western tanks and such
>>61564284We have young officers everywhere, it's not the soviet thinking.I know what you're talking about. People often ask, why that tank was riding alone without support? Well we'd be glad to send a tank platoon instead, but we only have that one working tank at that part of the frontline, so...We tried to amass battalion-size elements last summer to get a breakthrough, but it all failed because our reserves were very shallow and low quality. Entire company could decide "nope we ain't going, it's too hot there". Happened with me once, when we were supposed to get help but didn't.A big mobilized army like ours is messy as fuck.
>>61564312could you tell me why is the government going through another round of conscription? Is there really a big shortage of men? And aren't poorly equipped, poorly trained, low morale conscripts a liability?
>>61564523NTA but getting older people to do rear duties will free up the younger and more capable soldiers to the frontline. Also soldiers who went through conscription together tend to be more loyal to their comrades in a defensive war. Unit cohesion is very important to keep morale high so conscription can actually help when there's a clear foreign threat.
Bros is there anything else like Band of Brothers or Generation Kill? It just hits a spot that nothing else does
>>61564820The Pacific
>>61564839Pacific never really hit the same way
>>61564854your mom never really hits the same way
>>61564839Pacific isn't as good. I never liked saving private Ryan or any of those other movies either for me Band of Brothers and Generation kill seem to be the only ones I like nothing hits like those 2.
I dun kyareif your muhreenhas a suckin CHEST HWOUNDHE WILL NOT TRAIPSE AROUND ONNA DECK WIT HIS SHIRT TAILS HANGIN OUT
>>61560346thank u for ur cervix o7
>>61566091Tell your mom I said thanks for hers
>>61555407good dump, sergeant?
>>61564854the Pacific was just a lot darker than GK or Band of Brothers. The last two made war look fun while the pacific seemed like everything fucking sucked.
>>61564839I didn't like it at first since I was going to binge it right after band of brothers. Watched the first 2 episodes and gave up on it. I gave it a 2nd chance a few years ago and it's really not too bad. Obviously it doesn't hold a candle to band of brothers but it's still decent in its own right. Especially the episodes where it starts to focus on the mortar crew with sledge and snafu.
>>61567239BoB = Medal of Honor: European AssaultThe Pacific = COD: World at War
>>61570340Ironic you should describe it that way considering The Pacific has less action than Band of Brothers. Titties became a regular appearance just to compensate for the lack of firefights
>>61564820Maaaaaybe sharpe or horatio hornblower Ultimate force is kinda underrated if you like made for TV quality yet fairly comfy SAS shenanigans
>>61566066I can hear this picture. LOL
>>61564820Not exactly the same tone, but Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter is pretty good
>>61558046>Seriously, how did they make GK so perfect?i dont know. it was kind of boring at first but it rapidly became good just seeing all the military fuckups. i was actually really sad at the end.
>>61558046in terms of individual characterization of each of the marines it nails them almost perfectly. the casting is great, the actors are all great, all of their interactions are believable, the shit they say is hilarious, and you can really see how a lot of them change over the series while still maintaining their personalities. still prefer the book personally since you get more details about each of them, but the miniseries does a great job capturing a good majority of them without making them seem like hollywood caricatures, which series like this usually have the tendency to do. i think it treads that fine line between realism and drama pretty perfectly, mostly because you literally couldn't make up half the crazy shit that happens in it.another minor thing that i think really helped it is the complete lack of music (barring the final scene) outside of what the marines sing to themselves. it adds a lot to the realism of it all.
>>61571450BoB is a feelgood quipfest about a band of merry gentlemen strolling across europe whereas the pacific is the complete opposite. you've got your fiery italian, the burly cigar smoking chad, the jokester, the stoic leader, etc etc. in the pacific, the character who's most like winters gets his brains blown out off screen
>>61575833>BoB is a feelgoodDefinitely lighter in tone>quipfestOdd way to describe occasional banter>merry gentlemen strolling across europeSurely you just jest>fiery italianWeren't there three>burly cigar smoking chadI don't remember if gunny smoked cigars or not>the jokesterYou mean the bug eyed, vaguely ethnic sodomite?>stoic leaderI don't think the platoon/company commander were even real characters>the character who's most like winters gets his brains blown out off screenI don't remember that happening either :v
>>61564854Band of Brothers is about the camaraderie that blossoms during war. The Pacific is about the monsters that war makes us.
>>61575969>Surely you just jestit ends with a fucking baseball game lol
From now on we’re gonna have to earn our stories
>>61576273No, it ends with interview footage of Winters and other members of Easy Company
>>61576484yeah but the show itself ends with a malick tier baseball game complete with sappy nostalgic narration before cutting to the "no bobby, I'm no hero but I served in an Easy Company of Heroes™
Anyone else have military stories?>Doing MOUT at night. >Dude forgot to put batteries in his nods before stepping and was too embarrassed to say anything. >He actually makes it up a flight of steps in pitch black but on the way down he falls down every single one and breaks his ankle.>First sausage forces him to stand on his fucked ankle while he blasts him and his squad leader>First sausage gets reported because of this and relieved of command.
>>61557667why did they keep you aboard? Also, I'm so fucking sorry anon.
>>61576532>Company of Heroes™Oh
>>61567239When the company's resident hardass WW1 vet straight up admitted Peleliu was the worst thing he'd ever experienced, you know it's completely fucked.Recommend reading Sledge's book, paints an even grimmer picture than the show even.
>>61564820The Unknown Soldier. Actually its better than Band of Brothers
>>61564820The Wire, but it's not about soldiers.Also Jarhead.
>>61576547in true military fashion because i was "dependable"
>>61573568I skipped all Victor parts and only watched for the nurse, the brothers and the singer for her maliciously good tits.
>>61557667maybe you should have gotten along with the guys better instead of bitching about them playing wow
>>61557667that recruiter really liked you anon nothing good about killing a lot as you get older anyways. You missed nothing.Be well
>>61583313>that recruiter really liked you anon nothing good about killing a lot as you get older anyways. You missed nothing.Be wellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36DrvYqfqM
>>61557431Can’t vouch for the marines, but hearing a bunch of people singing over your aircraft’s intercom is quite the feeling. >bringing aircraft back from TDY>It’s 1800>~500ft AGL over the coast of a foreign nation>sun is slowly setting down towards the water>watching flightlead, trying to blink the exhaustion from your eyes>”Trailers for sale, or rent…”>”Rooms to let, 50 cents…”If I ever hear Tennessee Whiskey again im gonna blow my brains out, though.
>>61575969thats a man
>>61564820Valley of Tears is by the same people that did Generation Kill and The Wire, it's also very good.Inb4 angry /pol/ seething
>>61564820https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegukgi_(film)I really liked this movie. IDK if it still hold up though
>>61583542I refuse to believe this
>>61583679women don't wear skirts.women don't wear thigh highs.women don't care about militaria.women don't use 'kitten'.that's a man.
>>61564820Generation War is a mini series about WW2 from the German perspective.
>>61585866My gf unironically likes being called kitten, but she is unaware of the whole 'discord kitten' meme and so I simply keep my cringe internal when she refers to herself that way.
>>61555464>Whopper Junior
>>61583527sovl
>>61566066THA CHILDGROOMINGSTANDURDH
>>61583574Is there alot of tank combat?
>>61590447A fair amount, as well as other combat. Like GK, I remeber feeling fucking tired when I finished it.
>>61564820>Coeurs Noirs (Dark Hearts)a 2023 series about french special forces trying to get their hands on french isis militants during the battle of Mossul
