Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Business Insider" channel.

This is the exact opposite direction the Army should be going. I have yet to hear a single one of these "instructors" use correct English, and none of them sound like they know what they're doing. They don't even remotely inspire confidence because it's painfully obvious that they are incompetent, just like their leaders.
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@megamanx466 The list of problems in this short vodeo is so long, as to represent a total erosion of the Army's Drill Instructor program. I would fire all those "instructors", then re-train the ones that can actually attain 85% on a combat PFT and have a 110 GT score, who can also pass an updated mid 1980s murder board. 5 mile ruck? I don't ever remember doing such a short ruck march. In the few instances where someone formed a complete sentence in this video, what they were saying made no sense, and sounded like a watered-down version of empty platitudes told to them by whoever is running that school house. This was a total embarrassment.
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@zorintoto1167 US Army and Marines, with help from USAF literally erased the Viet Cong in Tet of '68. NVA was almost entirely wiped out as well, suffering almost unbearable defeat. Vietnam was managed by traitors within the WH and DC, not soldiers. Same with Afghanistan. It's incorrect to make comparisons like that. Where the Army really shot itself in the head was recruiting people like you see who are now DI Instructors. I doubt any of those NCOs would have lasted long in any of the units I was in. Half of them fail basic appearance and grooming standards, and can't pass a real PT test, let alone score well on the ASVAB. Now the Army is stuck with woke culture jokes and wondering why quality recruits are avoiding it like the plague.
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I did Panama JOTC in 1997. That was the most fun I ever had out of deployments from 1994-2016. We packed very light. LBVs with old LCS-88/CPF-90 Assault Packs, M4s, CamelBaks. We spent a lot of time in T-shirts and CamelBaks if static. We were doing OPFOR for 2/75, so I wore my Tigerstripes a lot and stayed light. 2/75 carried LBT Assault Packs with some down-loaded Large ALICE rucks, depending on duty position. They were extremely fast moving at Ranger standard pace, faster than any other units I've seen. One of my Recon Team Leaders went to Malaysian Mantracker school, and taught us some basics in tracking. He could pick out tiny little signs of trace. You can definitely smell different people based on their diet, hygiene, insect repellent, and the types of detergents they use to wash clothes.
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@temistogen Your propaganda template is really old. Needs dusting off. Wars in Europe, where the US was allied with Russia and later the Soviet Union (WWII)? Maybe you mean the wars in Yugoslavia where UN international coalitions were formed to address ethnic cleansing, to stop the conflict that broke out between Serbs and Muslims in Kosovo? Many of us in the US felt that was Bill Clinton wagging the dog to cover for the mounting political scandals he was facing, and it had the least Congressional support of any military action in US history.
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@highonimmi We always tied down pouches with gutted 550 cord, so MOLLE is a lot easier to work with than ALICE. ALICE clips and meat hooks are terrible especially in the jungle. Things rust and corrode fast. The DPM British PLCE is excellent kit for the jungle.
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@RADAMB4 I haven’t been active duty in about 2 decades. Even before that, they deactivated every LRS unit they could in the 1990s. LRSC was awesome. Reenlistment rates were off the charts, 193% overstrength on 11V NCOs, great schools most have never heard of, everyone wanted to be there x3 levels of volunteerism, super small sub-units at the operational level. Big Mongoloid Army: “We don’t need no Reconnaissance.” Complete tards
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@cm-pr2ys We never had a problem with there being no badges for LRSLC, or ILRRPS-Med/Sniper/Recce/CQB/Winter SERE, INTAC, SOT, etc. etc. There are so many really great training courses that never had any kind of badges or tabs, which is better that way. It helps get rid of the young/barely-experienced instructor badge-protector mentality, and cultivates an emphasis on actual mastery of the skill sets. USMC Team and Squad Leader courses were good for that too, though the Marines is plagued with wokeness now by higher mandate. This generation needs a long and repeated kick to the teeth, which will be the natural consequences of its failures.
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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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There’s more truth to that than you may know. When I started working with foreign sniping communities and saw how they did Mil relation formula, I felt cheated. “That’s brilliant...” Take TGT measurement in mm, divide by mil reading in the optic = range in meters. Too easy. The US Army Sniper School formula where you have to convert inches and do several operations is just cumbersome and stupid. Mil relation doesn’t work well on partially exposed human TGTs much past 400m anyway. It works on large TGTs like vehicles, windows, known structures, but not human heads and upper torsos, which have a bit of variability in dimensions, especially with foreigners who don’t consume anywhere near the calories per day that we do in the US. I passed the metric mil relation formula onto guys before they went to Sniper School and they had the best range estimates of all the other students, all graduated successfully and usually took top shooter as well.
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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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Yup. We did Panama JOTC in Nov 1997 before Clinton handed it over to the Chinese.
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Watch a video of WWII German Sniper Training. Same stuff.
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One of the worst things we do in the US Army is award special tabs, badges, and accouterments to uniforms. The goal becomes checking the block with these items, rather than continual improvement daily. A mentality sets in where, “I’ve got my tab already.” which is detrimental to the incremental aggregation of improvement. Selous Scouts in Rhodesia had it right.
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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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@Izak213 There were 2 types of LRS Units in the 1980s and 1990s, namely Division LRSD which was a Platoon-sized Detachment under the MI Battalion under Div HQ, then Corps LRSC Company, which was under the MI Company at Corps HQ. The size of LRSC compared to LRSD was huge, but same basic operating element of the 6-Man team. I don’t think they ever brought the MTO&E back. From all I heard, it was CAV unit RSTA companies. The culture just isn’t there to make that successful with CAV. At least half the guys in LRSC were from Ranger Regiment, the rest from Scout Platoons, came from another LRSD or LRSC, or Pathfinder units. It was really rare to have a LRS baby, but there were some who had gotten injured in RIP that were good dudes otherwise. You had to have a Team Leader (SSG/E-6) vouch for you to get into LRSC when I was there. The TLs were all highly-experienced.
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@cm-pr2ys The whole military needs a harsh lesson in the consequences of adopting social justice policies, but I think these were engineered by the Soviets and are being implemented by Russian moles seeded throughout government and DoD for the implicit purpose of weakening the US military. Mission accomplished in spades.... Berets are about 1000 rungs down on my ladder of concerns at this point.
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@Vid 12 All of the NATO partner snipers are quite good that I’ve worked with. I’ve also seen Canadians come to a competition in the States who fell out of movement on day 1, so it isn’t something you can brush with a broad stroke and say "X nation is the best!” It’s a combination of culture and personalities. When you get good personalities in leadership in an already great culture, you will see higher performance and professionalism. The Commonwealth nations have some great shooters and tacticians generally though, as do the Norwegians, Germans, and Danes. SOF units have been slaying bipeds for the past 20 years and usually not advertising anything about it.
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@baronc252 Army National Guard has a Sniper School in Arkansas. There are a lot of Guard guys that were active duty with relevant experience that have matured with the skill set far beyond what a young solider is capable of, so of course they are going to do really well in competitions. An older shooter with decades of wind-reading experience is going to clean the clocks of younger guys shooting distance. I’m speaking from the experience of shooting in military team matches from 2007-2016 myself. I partnered up with an Irish guy who had been a Royal Marine for 12 years, and we placed 2nd in FinnSniper in 2008. That was a great event, that started seeing more foreign teams attend as the years went on. The Danes were really good.
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@Meat_Waygu Picking up pine cones and admin BS >>>> training in big gay Army.
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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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@Ukraineaissance2014 Same here with my background in 3 different Light Infantry Recon Platoons, LRSC, and attached to 1st Group doing SR. We never carried extra uniforms or boots. Extra socks and 1 extra T-shirt, sure. 19Ds were always somewhat of a joke to us. Totally different culture.
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We live in amazing times...
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