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"THE SONS OF ST. BARBARA".


1. In the beginning there was chaos and the chaos was the Infantry, for the Infantry was alone.

2. And fear was with the Infantry and they cried unto the Lord saying, "Lord, save us for we are afraid."

3. And the Lord heard their grunts and set some of the Infantry on beasts of burden and these he called Cavalry, and the Cavalry became Armour.

4. And when the Lord had seen what he had done he laughed saying, "Well, you can't win them all."

5. The Infantry and the Armour again cried out to the Lord saying, "Lord, save us for we are afraid." And the Lord heard their cried and decided to end their weeping.

6. And the Lord said unto them, "Lo and behold, I send you a race of men noble in heart and spirit." And the Lord created the Gunners.

7. And the Lord said unto the Infantry and Armour, "When it is dark, the Gunners shall light your way."

8. And when you need smoke, there shall be smoke, and when you need HE, WP, H & I and counter-battery fire, all this ye shall have."

9. And the Lord gave the Gunners big guns and field guns, and the Infantry and Armour were jealous for they had naught.

10. And the Infantry cried out saying, "Lord, thou hast created the Infantry as Queen of Battles, but now thou hast made the Gunners King of Battles and well knowest thou what the King does to the Queen."

11. And the Lord replied, "Right on!"

12. And the Lord gave unto the Artillery rockets and missiles and, best of all, nukes. And when the Infantry and Armour saw this they fell to their knees in wonder saying, "Surely God is on the side of the greatest - THE GUNNERS."

13. And the Lord sayeth, "You got that right."

Now abideth Infantry, Armour, and Artillery; but the greatest of these is..."Artillery".


Guess which branch I'm in...

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the Coast Guard?

[Critias]

I was gonna guess Peace Corps.

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no, no. the Salvation Coast Guard.

[Critias]

The Salvation Coast National Guard, so he's not even active duty!

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SCNG Reserves! they have those, right?

[Critias]

SCNGR JROTC. Boom, shakalaka.

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SCNGR Cub Scouts! wait, better, SCNGR Webelos! technically higher on the food chain, but what kind of name is "Webelos"?

[Critias]

Oh, I think you know what kind of name it is, sugar-britches.

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i could never stay mad at you.

[Konsaki]

Get a room...

[Fyastarter]

It is a well known fact that without engineers to do stuff, the rest of the army would revert to being gorillas.

[Cleremond]

I was active duty U.S. Army for 5.5 years (6 month early out to go to civilian flight school). Flight Operations was my MOS.

[eidolon]

[emo samurai]

Are you using acronyms just to confuse people?

[Derek]

No, he's using acronyms that military people commonly use.

MOS=Military Occupational Specialitym a term that the Army and Marines use.

98G is a linguist.

I was a korean linguist, and a spanish linguist for 12 year before I became an intel officer. That translates to 2673 for koren longuist, 2674 for spanish, and 0206 for my particular officer intel speciality.

That is in the Marines, by the way.

Dave

[eidolon]

No, sorry bout that. It's ingrained habit. :)

MOS= military occupational specialty = job in the Army

"Army 98G". (pronounced ninety-eight golf).

Derek, how on earth did you/do you put up with it for so long? Glutton for punishment, I suppose. ;)

[Cleremond]

Hehe......yeah.....I think I posted in an earlier post that acronyms were WIDELY and regularly used in the military. Every group, action, or activity has an acronym (ahhh.....oh how I miss motorpool day each week and PMCS'ing all our vehicles). Every piece of equipment has a alpha numeric nomenclature.

I was 93P - Aviation Operations Specialist (pronounced ninety three papa)

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31U (Signal Support Systems Specialist), which i believe was renamed 25U just before i got out. i basically did the job of a 74B (Computer Fixerator Dude-guy), though, because i don't think any of those get assigned below BDE level.

[Cleremond]

BDE = Brigade

For those laymen....

:)

[Butterblume]

I was a Jäger, before I was transfered to the other batallion in my regiment for staff duty. I then served in the german Ministry of Defense, moving paper around. I personally helped in restructuring the Bundeswehr, dissolving the NVA (Nationale Volksarmee, the army of the former German Democratic Republic) and the german deployment in Somalia at the time.
Mainly by copying papers, sorting papers, entering data into the computer and cooking coffee, of course :P. I was pretty busy (one week I worked over 100 hours). Others in my company nearly went nuts because they had nothing to do at all...

After all, in the early '90s the Bundeswehr had no enemy at all. The threat of the Red Army driving to the Bay of Biscay was no more, there was no other threat around, and at that time the Bundeswehr couldn't legally deploy in another country.

Still, in retrospect, my basic training was pretty complete. We did everything essential at least once. Since most of us just made Abitur, once was enough most of the time. And it's called basic training for a reason, of course ;).

[Derek]

[Angelone]

14E here (fourteen echo) Patriot Missle Systems Fire Control Enhanced Mantainer/Operator. Which is one of the few teens series jobs that females can get, the teen series is the combat arms series.

[LordHaHa]

Thought I'd chime in. It's kind of odd. My dad was Army (he was in the service during 'Nam but didn't go over; he trained the guys that did) and occassionally still wishes he was.

In addition, pretty much everyone in my "Home SR Campaign" group was in the US Military at some point. I have 1 ex-USAF mechanic, 1 ex-Navy, 1 current Army train engineer (in the Guard) and one of my more prolific members recently joined the Army full-time for various reasons. That's 70-80% of my core group in the military.

I am not in the military, but I am a US Civil War reenactor in a high end group and have thus had a very small taste of what real service is like (period-authentic drill, duties, etc.).

As far as the military goes (relating to the root post of the thread), I can only give general statements on my observations.

1. Most of the military people I know are...kind of dry individuals on the surface. However, they do have a signifigant deal of personality that shows up when you get them going.

2. Pretty much everyone I've mentioned above says that's Tony Curtis's Fixer-like character in the movie Operation Petticoat is not that far from some the real life "supply aquisition" stories I have heard from guys in my group. Not saying that it happens everywhere, but it does happen. I've done similar things when reenacting, myself.

3. The whole thing about proper terminology is spot on. M-16s are rifles in the service. Don't call them guns or "assault rifles". Also, what you/SR calls a clip is infact known as a magazine. Etc., Etc..

4. Speaking of M-16s, there are some people who are or (most likely) were part of the armed services that hate the weapon and would prefer to use weapons like the M-14 instead (or any other 7.62mm weapon, for that matter). I've heard my dad equate the M-16 to a "peashooter" and "committee-designed peice of trash" numerous times in the past. Also the guy who recently joined managed to get a hold of me - he echoed that point of view as well.

5. You do what a superior officer tells you to do. That's it, and don't complain.

6. You drill all the time to make razor-precise movements. And then you forget all about it 10 minutes later.

7. Someone else said that people in the military tend to be "no bulls***" kind of people. I would back that up with the people I know. I like shooting straight on what I think, as do the military guys that I know.

That should be pretty good. As I said, I'm not in the military - I have only been signifigantly exposed to it. If you want details, talk to those people who are more knowledgeable on the matter than I am (some seem to be posting already).

[Angelone]

Has your friend gotten the pleasure of operating a SAW or a 240B yet? They are lovely weapons to fire.

As a side, why does the SAW, which fires the same round as a M16 sound like I've always believed a machinegun should with a very quick bambambambam and the 240B which fires 7.62 sound so much slower BOOM BOOM BOOM even though IIRC the cyclic rate is higher? Is is the larger rounds?