Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Business Insider"
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JSOC, Ranger Regiment Snipers, MARSOC Snipers, USMC Snipers, National Guard, some SF. At the annual Special Forces Sniper competition, SEAL Snipers have always placed at the bottom for some reason, and it’s been like that for decades. In the 1990s, 1st SFG won that competition multiple years in a row. Some foreign teams win occasionally, Danes, Canadians, etc. It’s usually Unit guys or Ranger Snipers who win it. Fort Benning has an annual competition as well, which has been won by SF, Rangers, Unit folks, USMC, National Guard, and foreign teams over the past several decades. The Brits, Australians, Germans, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Italians, and Euro NATO partners in general have really good sniping communities. The US schools are modeled off of the Brits mostly, but the Brits take things more seriously than US Army Sniper School.
In Europe, the age and experience of the instructors is much higher. You’ll have programs run by guys that did 15-20 years enlisted before they became Infantry or Commando officers, who really love that skill set, and they’ll be the OICs of their courses. The instructors are all senior NCOs and Warrant Officers who spent their whole careers in light infantry, commando, and Recce units. NATO’s ITC (formerly ILRRPS) has really good courses for these skill sets. All the cadre are coalition senior NCOs who specialize in this stuff.
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A woman would not be able to do the job we did in Recon or on Sniper teams. The Russians employed women in WWII because they were running out of young male bodies at alarming rates, but they never carried the amount of gear that US Snipers carry. If you ever look at a mission ruck, it will crush your soul to lift it, let alone carry it all day, all night, day-after-day. It’s just not a reality for the weak. I never met a female soldier who could even draw certain weapons from the arms room (Mk.19, M2 .50 BMG). The weight of several of the crew-served weapons exceeds women’s upper body strength. Just to load those weapons onto vehicles is beyond what I’ve seen any female soldier be able to do.
For the Sniper skill set, if you look at movement, hide site construction, living in a hide (not shown in this short video), working out of it, or supporting the line companies with advanced TGT Recce, humping alongside the support-by-fire position guys on gun teams, and doing general light infantry work, it’s just not for most men, let alone women.
A great example of all this is the fact that you don’t see women clamoring to or being steered into 11C MOS (Mortarman). Those were the only dudes I saw who had as heavy rucks as ours. Imagine strapping a mortar base plate to the outside of your ruck, while also having to carry rounds, the tripod, firing tables, sector stakes, radios, batteries, water, broken-down meals, and no room for personal gear. On top of that, line dogs will have to carry mortar rounds and drop them off at the mortar position before moving into position before actions-on.
A lot of times, the line platoons will not pick up their mortar rounds because of the pace of the movement, so the mortar guys get stuck with all the additional rounds. It freaking blows, but men have performed this type of extreme endurance work over the centuries. Women and weaker males just can’t do it.
If you look at rucks carried by infantry, combat engineers, combat medics, snipers, mortarmen, and RTOs, you would be setting a unit up for complete failure if you relied on weak males and women to do those duty positions. It’s not bigotry or anything like that, just the brutal, harsh reality of extreme physical pain that only a small number of people can endure and excel at.
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@cm-pr2ys For Class As, who cares. For duty uniform, they should be battle focused training-oriented, no patches, badges, tabs, etc. Berets are gay. They have zero use in the field and suck to wear in garrison, whether it be any season of the year. (I was in 4 different Airborne units). Suggesting the wearing of berets in the field is no bueno. Everyone is wearing NODs at night, and has been for decades in Infantry and SOF units.
Airborne should really only be for smaller units with individual Commando Companies for each Infantry Battalion.
The Army cares more about badges and flair than actual training, so the badges will only proliferate so that all the millennial leadership can receive and hand-out awards for participation, the same way they were raised.
Garritroopers will continue to rule the organization and purge actual dudes with deployment experience, which has been going on for years already. Nothing like an officer or senior NCO with no deployment experience or invalid deployment experience feeling insecure in the company of those who can actually train soldiers with battle focused experience. They hate that.
This and many other factors are why I enjoyed doing OPFOR so much. Brutalizing these retards who think they have some fighting chance because they’re wearing a uniform. They just expected to win by showing up, without having done any relevant training. Hilarious!
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@bzipoli I lived through the change and even converted after-market ALICE pouches to MOLLE. One thing we used to do with ALICE LC-2 belt gear was buy after-market puss pads for the belt, so I made my own padded belt with 1000D Woodland Cordura, mesh against me, and MOLLE webbing ladders on the Cordura.
I placed the Fastex buckles so that the panels came together like a one-piece chest rig. I cut a grid of large rectangular holes in the padding so it could breathe.
I attached 2x Double M4 Mag pouches, 1x triple 5.56 mag pouch, 1x MOLLE Utility pouch, 2x SAW pouches that I made, and 2x MOLLE canteen pouches. I put M-1956 grenade carrier spoon slots on the sides of all the mag and SAW pouches, plus lighter pouches and compass/first aid pouches.
I made a channel for the Camlebak in the LC-2 suspenders, which were H-Harness, and hid a small Camelback in my buttpack.
My BN SGM hated me every time he saw me and started wining like a little girl about how I was out of uniform and using unauthorized gear.
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