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[Reserved Parkin]

Thank you for sharing, awesome pics. Your food looks like real food too.

[ewitwins]

Wow, you guys make being in the military in a nation that isn't constantly at war sound rather nice.

[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]

I love living in a country that feels the need to put troops everywhere, fight everywhere, and invade every little third-world country that even so much as twitches in our direction.

Gentlemen, to speak for my nation as a whole, I would like to say something.

[B]WE'RE FUCKING WAR-WEARY, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAMNED 10-YEAR PERIOD IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVENT BEEN SHOOTING BROWN PEOPLE IN SOME BUTT-FUCK NOWHERE BACK-ALLEY OF A NATION.[/B]

/rant.

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33413054]Wow, you guys make being in the military in a nation that isn't constantly at war sound rather nice.

[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]

I love living in a country that feels the need to put troops everywhere, fight everywhere, and invade every little third-world country that even so much as twitches in our direction.

Gentlemen, to speak for my nation as a whole, I would like to say something.

[B]WE'RE FUCKING WAR-WEARY, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAMNED 10-YEAR PERIOD IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVENT BEEN SHOOTING BROWN PEOPLE IN SOME BUTT-FUCK NOWHERE BACK-ALLEY OF A NATION.[/B]

/rant.[/QUOTE]

I cannot agree with you..
you ignoring several facts.
America is allied with Saudi Arabia, The SA was at risk during the early 90's by Saddam Hussein(Iraq)..
after he lost back at the 90's, he came back and started to do shit with his military at 2003..
Your country saved a lot of Kuwaitis for instance. But now your army tries to secure the new iraqi government while you get brainwashed back at home.

but America has created the situation in Afghanistan by arming the aphgan insurgents against the soviet union when it tried to take over. American senator worked hard on arming them for good reason but later the Taliban was created using these weapons, and Al-Qaeda.

[Trunk Monkay]

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;33415928]I cannot agree with you..
you ignoring several facts.
America is allied with Saudi Arabia, The SA was at risk during the early 90's by Saddam Hussein(Iraq)..
after he lost back at the 90's, he came back and started to do shit with his military at 2003..
Your country saved a lot of Kuwaitis for instance. But now your army tries to secure the new iraqi government while you get brainwashed back at home.

but America has created the situation in Afghanistan by arming the aphgan insurgents against the soviet union when it tried to take over. American senator worked hard on arming them for good reason but later the Taliban was created using these weapons, and Al-Qaeda.[/QUOTE]

want to try and justify the Iraq war, or any of the 10 conflicts we've been in since the cold war started, or when we supplied weapons to Afghan rebels, who then used those against us later?

[W0w00t]

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;33417374]want to try and justify the Iraq war, or any of the 10 conflicts we've been in since the cold war started, or when we supplied weapons to Afghan rebels, who then used those against us later?[/QUOTE]

korea - we gave birth to south korea and they give us many tons of kimchi in return
vietnam - we saved some south vietnamese that didn't want to be in a communist vietnam or something. i guess.
gulf war - saved kuwaitis asnd shite

YOU KNOW these wars aren't very justifiable

[Matriax]

[QUOTE=Mabus;33390420]Ours are all right, mind you the curry gives you the shits and the biscuits are generally considered to be asbestos in edible form.[/QUOTE]

Biscuits brown + tuna mayonnaise = winning!

Too bad they're not in the packs anymore :(

[Nurtzi]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33413054]Wow, you guys make being in the military in a nation that isn't constantly at war sound rather nice.

[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]

I love living in a country that feels the need to put troops everywhere, fight everywhere, and invade every little third-world country that even so much as twitches in our direction.

Gentlemen, to speak for my nation as a whole, I would like to say something.

[B]WE'RE FUCKING WAR-WEARY, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAMNED 10-YEAR PERIOD IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVENT BEEN SHOOTING BROWN PEOPLE IN SOME BUTT-FUCK NOWHERE BACK-ALLEY OF A NATION.[/B]

/rant.[/QUOTE]

While I can agree that it was a great experience overall, I have to say that these pictures are about 1% of the whole service. For example behind the pictures from explosives training was at least 4 hours of hard work by around 40 guys I think, to set up all the explosives and their framework and so on :)

Also I was really lucky to have such an enjoyable job (IFV gunner). Nothing extremely physical yet challenging and real responsibilities too. And there's also the fact that you get 6-12 months taken away from you when you could be studying or working during that time. But it all depends on the attitude I guess.
It helped a lot thinking there are actually people who would pay money to do the things we were ordered to do and got even paid for it (11 euros per day woohoo!)

[Megafan]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33413054]Wow, you guys make being in the military in a nation that isn't constantly at war sound rather nice.

[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]

I love living in a country that feels the need to put troops everywhere, fight everywhere, and invade every little third-world country that even so much as twitches in our direction.

Gentlemen, to speak for my nation as a whole, I would like to say something.

[B]WE'RE FUCKING WAR-WEARY, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAMNED 10-YEAR PERIOD IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVENT BEEN SHOOTING BROWN PEOPLE IN SOME BUTT-FUCK NOWHERE BACK-ALLEY OF A NATION.[/B]

/rant.[/QUOTE]

Well getting stationed in Europe or Japan is pretty nice, if you can swing it.

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;33417374]want to try and justify the Iraq war, or any of the 10 conflicts we've been in since the cold war started, or when we supplied weapons to Afghan rebels, who then used those against us later?[/QUOTE]

I'm not justifying war-crimes committed by bored soliders.
it happens, they get punished as they have been asking for.

look carefuly about korea, you saved them from communism (hunger, misery, boredom)..

btw, at the gulf war, Iraq was firing Scud missiles with chemical/biological warheads at Israel and other places too.
maybe because Saddam Hussein was angry about [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera"]the nuclear reactor we destroyed at Iraq at 1981(yay).[/URL] we probably saved others too by doing it..
so in israel we had alot of gas masks, I don't know much about the gulf war but i know only one died in Israel. The americans also saved us by fighting back Iraq and later developing the Patriot Missile system that became one of the best anti ballistic missile systems.

[coolj2609]

[QUOTE=Majjen;27629598]The first pic made me think of the Swedish stealth boats:

[img]http://media.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/SHIP_Corvette_Visby_K32_Helsingborg_Extreme_Littoral_lg.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

thats just a tad bit notice able just a litte

[LordLoss]

[QUOTE=coolj2609;33425675]thats just a tad bit notice able just a litte[/QUOTE]

The stealth refers to the lack of radar signature, also in open seas that would be pretty hard to notice at range.

[Viper202]

[QUOTE=coolj2609;33425675]thats just a tad bit notice able just a litte[/QUOTE]

What the fuck are you gonna camouflage against in the open ocean? It's made to break the ships outline apart at distance.

[ignhelper]

The french are making future subs!

[IMG]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9586/dcnssmx252.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/333/ladroit.jpg[/IMG]

[WubWubWompWomp]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33426243]The french are making future subs!

[IMG]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9586/dcnssmx252.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/333/ladroit.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Great, now they can run away in more style.

Kidding.

[MedicmanV500]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33413054]Wow, you guys make being in the military in a nation that isn't constantly at war sound rather nice.

[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]

I love living in a country that feels the need to put troops everywhere, fight everywhere, and invade every little third-world country that even so much as twitches in our direction.

Gentlemen, to speak for my nation as a whole, I would like to say something.

[B]WE'RE FUCKING WAR-WEARY, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAMNED 10-YEAR PERIOD IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY WHERE WE HAVENT BEEN SHOOTING BROWN PEOPLE IN SOME BUTT-FUCK NOWHERE BACK-ALLEY OF A NATION.[/B]

/rant.[/QUOTE]

Yep, because the September 11th attacks were just a little "twitch in our direction".

[ewitwins]

[QUOTE=MedicmanV500;33427585]Yep, because the September 11th attacks were just a little "twitch in our direction".[/QUOTE]

Yes, because the September 11th attacks warranted a ten year war and the invasion of two seperate nations, thousands of drone strikes, and the loss of over 5,000 men and women in a war that has obviously turned itself into either a clusterfuck that we'll never pull out of, or a situation where when we [B]DO[/B] eventually pull out, will rip itself to pieces.

Send in special forces, use an elite team, that's how you get who you want. That's why Seal Team 6 was able to do what it did.

No, what we did wasn't even close to justifiable, and even if it was, we went about things all wrong. That should be evident by the last 8 years.

[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]

Not to mentions TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit.

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33428136]Yes, because the September 11th attacks warranted a ten year war and the invasion of two seperate nations, thousands of drone strikes, and the loss of over 5,000 men and women in a war that has obviously turned itself into either a clusterfuck that we'll never pull out of, or a situation where when we [B]DO[/B] eventually pull out, will rip itself to pieces.

Send in special forces, use an elite team, that's how you get who you want. That's why Seal Team 6 was able to do what it did.

No, what we did wasn't even close to justifiable, and even if it was, we went about things all wrong. That should be evident by the last 8 years.

[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]

Not to mentions TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit.[/QUOTE]

so comfortable to get lectured to hate your own country, but no one protests about russia and china..
Wtf.. You sure you are fine?

[Legolas]

well saw the images of the Latvian military on that other page but I haven't seen any pictures of the Lithuanian military nor can I find any good ones. dammit :(

[Bladerunner]

Recent Canadian Forces photos
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6240/6277570602_a65e6309d2_b.jpg[/img]

[Quote]Canadian Forces Base Valcartier
Basic sniper course
Camouflaged by his surroundings a Canadian sniper lays in the bush during the live fire phase of Exercise Tireur Accompli.
[/quote]

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6113/6277048125_169232ddca_b.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6177/6217668995_e83a586754_b.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6038/6277569412_0dc2413d45_b.jpg[/img]

[quote]CFB Petawawa, Ontario, 4 October 2011

Collaborative Spirit

Soldiers from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group host Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT at CFB Petawawa from October 4th to 6th, 2011.
[/quote]

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6211462283_562bf3a74e_b.jpg[/img]

[quote]Nine hundred reservists from the 35th Canadian Brigade Group (35 CBG) take part in Exercise Franchissement Audacieux on October 1, 2011 in Les Éboulements and Île-aux-Coudres municipalities, in the region of Charlevoix, QC.[/quote]

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6128/6035000069_3101ff5952_z.jpg[/img]

[quote]HMCS Vancouver Panama Canal transit[/quote]

[img]http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/_photos/500/HS2011-M010-001.jpg[/img]

[quote]Arrival in Toronto of HMCS Montréal (left) and HMCS Shawinigan (right) for the 2011 Great Lakes Deployment (GLD).[/quote]

[img]http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/_photos/500/IS2011-7552-01.jpg[/img]

[quote]November 24, 2011 - Flypast of eight CF-18 and one CC-150 Polaris tanker over the Parliament to mark the end of Operation MOBILE.

Government of Canada has announced the termination of Operation MOBILE in Libya and the return of the Canadian Forces members to Canada. An official welcome home, aircraft flyby, ceremony parade and a formal parliamentary event were held on Parliament Hill to recognize the individuals that deployed in support of this operation.
[/quote]

[WubWubWompWomp]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33428136]Yes, because the September 11th attacks warranted a ten year war and the invasion of two seperate nations, thousands of drone strikes, and the loss of over 5,000 men and women in a war that has obviously turned itself into either a clusterfuck that we'll never pull out of, or a situation where when we [B]DO[/B] eventually pull out, will rip itself to pieces.

Send in special forces, use an elite team, that's how you get who you want. [B]That's why Seal Team 6 was able to do what it did.
[/B]
No, what we did wasn't even close to justifiable, and even if it was, we went about things all wrong. That should be evident by the last 8 years.

[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]

Not to mentions TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit.[/QUOTE]

With more than 31 fucking casualties.

If you really don't want loss of American life, nuke the place, or call in artillery every time you get in contact, but you can't do that because of civilian deaths.

Anyways, there aren't enough people in things like the SEALs and SAS to occupy a whole country.

[MedicmanV500]

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33428136]Yes, because the September 11th attacks warranted a ten year war and the invasion of two seperate nations, thousands of drone strikes, and the loss of over 5,000 men and women in a war that has obviously turned itself into either a clusterfuck that we'll never pull out of, or a situation where when we [B]DO[/B] eventually pull out, will rip itself to pieces.

Send in special forces, use an elite team, that's how you get who you want. That's why Seal Team 6 was able to do what it did.

No, what we did wasn't even close to justifiable, and even if it was, we went about things all wrong. That should be evident by the last 8 years.

[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]

Not to mentions TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit.[/QUOTE]

We had to invade to take care of the insurgency that lingers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They (they being the ANA and Iraqi Army) needed our help, they could not control the Taliban on their own. Plus when we invaded we were actually fighting Saddam's troops because they were under his regime at the time. And the attacks do warrant an invasion. What about Pearl Harbor? I never hear anyone saying those attacks didn't warrant going to war with the Axis powers (I know that wasn't the only reason the US got involved in WWII, there were many reasons. It was one of the reasons, I believe.)

And we have already pulled out of Iraq, I don't think we have any combat personnel there any longer. The Iraqi Army is capable of dealing with the threat now, we helped them restore their government. We will be completely out of Iraq by the end of this year. We (being the US and other Coalition forces) are still in Afghanistan training the Afghan National Army though.

Like WubWub said, SOF teams are too small in number to deal with an entire terrorist organization by themselves. We needed our full military potential. If you think we went about it wrong, then how do you personally think would've been the right way to deal with it?

[WubWubWompWomp]

Also, the SEALs are so valuable even 31 deaths is a HUGE HUGE HUGE loss.

They spend years training them, giving them the best, so if they die it's a loss of a huge investment.

[ksenior]

[QUOTE=WubWubWompWomp;33444701]Also, the SEALs are so valuable even 31 deaths is a HUGE HUGE HUGE loss.

They spend years training them, giving them the best, so if they die it's a loss of a huge investment.[/QUOTE]
They probably cost upwards of several million dollars to train each

[WubWubWompWomp]

Yeah, so thats over a 93 million dollar loss, probably more considering the validity of future missions.

[Lizzrd]

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;33390108] please look at these pictures, I'm showing our side.
and please let's stop this useless argument here? I'm just one here... [/QUOTE]

What argument israel is evil.

[Araknid]

[QUOTE=Itsjustguy;33374535]Latvian 2nd Infantry Battalion training for deployment in the international "Meimana 2011"

[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6157/6246194282_3c303b1442_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6219/6245673249_449f398e0c_b.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6245674607_0b1d481db7_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6177/6246196120_8c3421d1a2_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6177/6246196306_06be13f829_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6177/6245677123_f495a5bf60_b.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6218/6245758681_01e7b2a6f8_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6058/6246279586_a6642b9145_b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6180/6245758111_4f440db592_b.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That fucking camouflage keeps confusing my eyes.

[Scar]

Does anyone have good pictures of [b]modern day[/b] German troops?

Would love to see some

[ksenior]

[QUOTE=Scar;33452546]Does anyone have good pictures of [b]modern day[/b] German troops?

Would love to see some[/QUOTE]

Just go through all the pages, they have been posted

[Taepodong-2]

[QUOTE=Scar;33452546]Does anyone have good pictures of [b]modern day[/b] German troops?

Would love to see some[/QUOTE]

Some of these might be reposts, I don't feel like looking through the whole thread.

[img]http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/09/06/mn-afghan07_ph_0500562633.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9274/32062062pe8.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/0be402c8.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/e0a27079.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/a9f0f1b9.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/68c4a983.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/824d7cff.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/bf59c4b8.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/1eb6d6dd.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/German%20Armed%20Forces/53cb8649.jpg[/img]

These pictures and many more can all be found here
[url]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?179052-Bundeswehr-Military-of-Germany[/url]

[Trunk Monkay]

MG3's, badass.