Yeah, I bitch about that a lot when i was in Basic, bed have to be tight, all 4 corners has to be tucked in the same way, pillow and bedding on the opposite side and there is always the edge you can't quite get it right every time. That's when you have your weekend pass revoke or have to do 20 pushes up on the spot.Yeah, we liked complaining about the bed, it's kinda extreme, everything has to be symmetrical, not only our own equipment, but everyone in the room should do it in the same order. Combat boots, flippers and running shoes should be on the same line, in the same line with other people's shoes, backpack zippers should always be closed, nice and tidy, vests and uniforms should always be ready with full bottles of water, protective glasses and six full magazines, guard duties in night time were all under our responsibility and there must always be night guards, commanders would try to sneak into our tents/rooms and try to steal our guns and we had to catch them or sometimes did foolish stuff, one commander woke me up, quietly gave me a piece of watermelon and tell me no one would ever believe me if I told that and walk away
But all of this makes your mind strive for perfection in your actions, which is very valuable.
I was in a combat engineering unit for a while but I got injured (fucked up ankle) and had to quit, we also learned how to use mine detectors and IEDs as well, but this field sucks because there are plastic anti personnel mines that can't be detected by mine detectors. The joke about us was that we give people a high-one because we didn't have five fingers, generally the jokes about us is about lack of legs/arms
Humans have insane abilities that are only acquired by a massive amount of experience. Humans build intuitive capabilities that they often cannot explain, capabilities that cannot be passed to each other. This applies to every field in our life, not just military. You could see this in ace pilots, elite snipers, operators and tank crews that are force multipliers in a war, or even just experienced mechanics, cooks, engineers or hackers.
But yeah, if he thinks experience is just a joke, let him think that way. Good for us.
Sure, US is not fighting Iraq but Russia since Iraq uses Russian Weapon? How about Israel fighting Russian as most of its adversary also using Russian weapon? How about Irish fighting the Swede and the Belgium in Congo when both supplies weapon to the Congese Army??
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Here each tank brigade got a combat engineering battalion attached to it and the combat engineers enter the enemy line first before anyone else and clear the way for tanks, but I guess tank crews study about mines as well.
20 pushups is an easy punishment honestly. They never made us do pushups. They made us hold push up plank position for a few minutes (This leaves anyone shaking and burning) or tell you to sprint from place to place. The thing is we were in the Negev desert and having 45+ degrees celsius was not something rare so we would be soaked. In bad cases they remove your next weekend or your 4 next weekends, and in extreme cases throw you into jail.
looks like what the western portrayed "ghost city" of China.This only just shows how reliant the Chinese population is on living in a major city in order to be successful. You simply don't understand that this is not a requirement in the US. The areas outside our cities are developed. The headquarters of some of our major companies are not even in big cities.
Many people rarely set foot in major cities and make 100's of thousands a year.
But for China if you don't have access to the benefits of a major city you are a nobody.
Every single Chinese university moved their main campus out in the far surburbs and countryside, cause land supply is very limited for the fast expansion of universities, it's natural occurance in every single country.
You mean before World war 2 ? that's is something a American military expert can answer which I am not.
This Chinese university is in the middle of a desert, several other universities are as well, it's natural for big schools to move to suburbs or countryside to get more land supply
want is different from can, you can go to check US GDP data, cities are still the prime mover of the country's economy.
But they are still cities, my point is no countries to function without cities and no governments in their sane mind would give up on their cities.
No, you are just being stupid to deny the common sense that no countries can function normally and grow without cities and no governments in their sane mind would give up on their cities. this is always my point from my post one, who cares about the setup of your famillies.
