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Yep Advanced Individual Training. I was a 19D , Cavalry Scout. we had one day between Basic and AIT, slept in the same bed, ate at the same mess hall and had the same instructors for the entire 14 weeks.
If all goes well there will still be something left when I go to Ft Knox to pick up the trucks. My dad died a few weeks ago and it just reminds me more and more how I need to tell my son all the stories of my life.... the ones I wish my own father had shared with me.
SSG James B Simpson - Father, Soldier, Citizen - RIP
Oh man, sorry to hear that Khitan.
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.223 is fine at 100 yards. it's pretty good out to about 300 yards.
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nice!! we need some ranges round here that aren't rod and gun club types
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Well that sucks. When I drove by a couple of weeks ago there were still several tanks and artillary pieces sitting around. KHITAN, I know what CUCV's are but help me with AIT? Artillary training maybe. Thank you for your service to this country.
AIT= advanced individual training.
After every soldier goes through their basic training, they go to a school for what ever job classification they signed up for.e
For me, for instance, when I FIRST went in, I went to basic training for 8 weeks, then went for another 16 weeks to radio school.
when I reclassified to infantry, I went to basic training for 3 weeks (they assigned me to a basic training company that was already going through, and then I went on to 11b school.)
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I have this one. Pretty good for the money. Walmart.com: Sawyer Water Purifier Kit
Nice!! that's the cheapest one I've seen yet!
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If you don't like snakes..get a couple of good Biological Hunter/killers..Cats kill mice, snakes...just about anything except cars.
they don't do so good with cars.
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thanks, SUNTZU,
Not picking nits here, but I'm 46, and while in pretty good shape, a 25 mile hike would be a long walk. I learned from hiking in the days of my youth that an ounce can turn into a pound on long hike.
yeah, but it only hurts till your legs go numb..after that you can hump all day!
if you want to get fancy, you can take a pain killer...but it still takes about 20 or 30 minutes till my legs go numb.
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From what I read, they're cutting the development of one plane, and cutting down on the number of ships deployed. I would like to see more details.
he's also cutting benefits and tricare.
Personally, I think it's an attack predicated by the fact that the military refused to abolish the don't ask don't tell requlations.
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I say that if he wants to gut something? fine. REDUCE the commitments by our military first. No more Navy pulling people's beans outta the fire or looking after Europe. let THEM build a Navy.
Let them notify the countries that wish to commit atrocities that we will now follow an Israeli response policy.
By that I mean we will give the response that Israel gave when ONE of their soldiers were kidnapped.
They leveled Lebanon.
Reaffirm Israel that we're their friend, and everyone else that we will support them with both materiel and technology.
Inform Iran that they are now a priority for us. If we catch ONE Iranian operative in Iraq, we will be happy level their infrastructure. Collateral damage will not be viewed as a bad thing. We have been patient since 1979. that time is over, so either cut heads or STFU.
Inform Iraq that we've had to visit them 2 times already, if we have to come back, we'll destroy them again and we WON'T rebuild.
Inform NATO that they are now responsible for the defense of Europe and tell them "good luck with that".
Make tricare the new congressional health insurance. If they don't like it, inform them that we're making deep cuts in order to make it "sustainable" (don't you just LOVE that stupid buzzword?). They're welcome to get private insurance as long as it's in keeping with the CURRENT HEALTH CARE LAWS, and ALL of Congress will be subject to this law.
If they don't like that, change the law.
that's my thoughts on the matter...they're probably not accurate nor logical..but that's the way I would do it.
It's time to put EVERYONE back into the same boat. perhaps then, we won't have to worry about being torpedoed in the stern.
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Darrell, what is it that you're inclined to do for employment?
welcome to NE Tn!
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howdy Tom, from Bristol
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wb arko!
I didn't get any cake..but I DID make off with some bacon!!!
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You mean the science channel would......lie??
Yes..yes they would...haven't you noticed how they keep saying that the sunspots are a product of the global warming?
They're pushing Global warming because it's a hot topic and every donkey butt the other side of the Mississippi and a couple on this side are squalling about it.If you notice, they don't make shows refuting it do you?
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This situation is only the tip of the iceberg. All this crap with the drug wars and immigration is going to come to a head at some point and I don't want to be any closer to that border than I am now.
That kind of a fight is like a fire on a ship...You'd better run TO the damned thing and put it out before your whole fecking ship goes down.
I myself will load what I have into my Jeep and make myself available to the state of Arizona.
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It never fails to surprise me how soulless some of you people are.
there are some guys who just murdered 15 years old child trowing a rock .
WHY ooooo why did they run from Mexican police , if they willing to do anything for this country
let me recap a Logic again.
Kids with a rocks-----Shoot
adults with a guns--- Run
let see a different scenario ,Down town Nashville. Friday night
a drunk teen trows a beer bottle or rocks at you.
what would you do?
1. shoot him.
2. do whatever else
If anyone throws ANYTHING at me, liquid or solid, in anger, I'm probably going to send some projectiles their way.
In this day and age, there's no telling what is thrown would be a deadly weapon or not. This has nothing to do with my compassion and everything to do with my survival. I'd love to be nice to everyone but it only takes ONE person to fight.
If you tell him you don't want to fight? guess what, if he wants to you have no choice.
I can understand you being upset, strel. Try and keep this in context though.
The kid already has a record here in the U.S and had been deported no less than 5 times.
Normally that wouldn't bother me as the U.S has allowed a lax enforcement of the federal laws to give foreign nationals the idea that it's 'no big deal'.
In this instance though, at the 'tender age of 15' that young man already had a record of human trafficking.
According to the officer that shot him, he'd already put a bunch of stitches into the head of another officer with a rock and was busy getting another projectile into the air after being told to stop.
so yeah. he's not innocent and I feel no remorse for what happened to him.
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My wife is on the night shift. a nurse at the Bristol nicu. My last job, I worked the night shift doing tower upgrades for General dynamics.
Now? I'm about to go to work for a company doing microwave pathing. That's a dayjob *yay!!*
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I got UI last year when the communications companies got hit with the economic downturn.
GD fired me for, and get this "not working hard enough". At the time we were upgrading 2 towers a night on some nights, and a tower a night on most nights.
the median work day for me was anywhere between 14 and 20 hours.
yeah..not working hard enough....right.
I had no problems getting my unemployment benefits.
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Not too long ago I shot with a good friend of mine who was in SF. We were playing HORSE and the first shot was shooting at a plum set up in the middle of the target at about 18-20 yards. I was shooting my G17 while he had his 92fs. I shot first, about an inch left, inch high. He shoots and the plum explodes. I knew from that point that I was about to lose that game, which I did. I didn't even get the chance to get a letter on him.
Open your ears and soak up everything they have to offer. Ask basic questions. Then as already stated, practice x3. Fortunately for them, they have their ammo provided!
heheheh, Your response reminded me of when I was a unit armorer for a personnel service company (a bunch of clerks.)
The only thing I did all day for a year was to maintain weapons that went to the firing range ONCE a year and go to the range.
at the end of my first fiscal year in that unit the SGM called me into his office and asked me why there was a 32,000 dollar bill from the known distance range for ammo allotment. I told him I had no idea! he said their budget only allowed for 25,000 for the Battalion and why did I need to shoot so many rounds? I confessed to him that I didn't want to be pulled for some supply job so I just took 5 rifles out to the range and test fired them all day, when I didn't have scheduled maintenance on them and reminded him that I was an 11 series (infantryman) in a personnel unit which had NO T.O.E requirements for an 11 series.
He told me "don't do that anymore", and gave me a 1000 dollar allotment for the next year.
I dodged the bullet on that one..and didn't take me long to get out of that unit and back into a unit that spent time on the range...a line company.
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Nice...
that guy's ability to distort is second only to his ability to get things wrong.
More scare tactics. yay!
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We got a smattering of rain here as well.
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very succinct!
very accurate!
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The difference between you and him is that of experience. You know that already.
In one year, I went through about 6k worth of ammo. You wouldn't believe the difference in my marksmanship.
THAT is what it takes. practice. LOTS AND LOTS of practice.
practice the basics.
breathing, focus on the front sight after you get your sight picture..there are so many things going on when you shoot a pistol and it takes practice to get them all in sync when you pull the trigger.
Aim small, miss small...good luck!
They're pushing Global warming because it's a hot topic and every donkey butt the other side of the Mississippi and a couple on this side are squalling about it.
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I'm wondering how long it's going to take for a federal judge to reverse this..