We're Coming Home: Aussie Diggers flying back right now from Afghan, our involvement is over
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funny, just saw this:
[video=youtube;o8VfE7ubHOA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VfE7ubHOA[/video]
[QUOTE=cplcollas;43217990]What is an FTX? But yeah, I'm going to try my best in training, I've been told to just be hopefull and to try and keep myself happy amidst all the shouting and shit while I'm there by some dude I met on the steyr training day.[/QUOTE]
Field Training Exercise. I'm not sure what you guys call it, but it basically means going out in the woods for a few days with 60 pounds of gear strapped to your back and running squad/platoon sized Situational Training Exercises until your feet are ready to drop off, you're delirious from lack of sleep, and weak from hunger because the MRE side-dish you ate for lunch on the first day gave you indigestion and you're too busy to eat anyway.
Oh, and you have about 5 minutes, tops, to do anything involving eating or fixing gear, because the only time you aren't busy pulling security or moving to the objective is during After Action Reports (which you need to pay attention to anyway). Of course, you [I]could[/I] do it in pitch dark and cut into your valuable 4-hour nightly sleep allotment.
It's an experience. Trust me.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43218493]Field Training Exercise. I'm not sure what you guys call it, but it basically means going out in the woods for a few days with 60 pounds of gear strapped to your back and running squad/platoon sized Situational Training Exercises until your feet are ready to drop off, you're delirious from lack of sleep, and weak from hunger because the MRE side-dish you ate for lunch on the first day gave you indigestion and you're too busy to eat anyway.
Oh, and you have about 5 minutes, tops, to do anything involving eating or fixing gear, because the only time you aren't busy pulling security or moving to the objective is during After Action Reports (which you need to pay attention to anyway). Of course, you [I]could[/I] do it in pitch dark and cut into your valuable 4-hour nightly sleep allotment.
It's an experience. Trust me.[/QUOTE]
Ah, we call them bivouac's, they mostly consist of the same thing except the MRE's and 60 pounds of equipment, we have a tiny bit less, the reason MRE's were banned is cause some dumbfuck who was allergic to peanuts ate teryaki chicken or something like that with peanuts in it and died, now we are just given ingredients to cook our own food or we are given fruit or something else or a lunch made by the NCO's. (this was ages ago and pretty much all of them clearly state the ingredients anyway so it was a pretty stupid way to die)
[QUOTE=cplcollas;43218724]Ah, we call them bivouac's, they mostly consist of the same thing except the MRE's and 60 pounds of equipment, we have a tiny bit less, the reason MRE's were banned is cause some dumbfuck who was allergic to peanuts ate teryaki chicken or something like that with peanuts in it and died, now we are just given ingredients to cook our own food or we are given fruit or something else or a lunch made by the NCO's. (this was ages ago and pretty much all of them clearly state the ingredients anyway so it was a pretty stupid way to die)[/QUOTE]
MREs are lousy if they're cold, so you're probably better off cooking it yourself. Assuming they give you the time to heat it up.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43218910]MREs are lousy if they're cold, so you're probably better off cooking it yourself. Assuming they give you the time to heat it up.[/QUOTE]
I've never actually had them but I have a friend who has had the aussie MRE's, the main meals are really just really thick goop that's supposed to be sauce and some chunks of what's supposed to be meat but the gatorade powder that comes with it is supposed to be amazing and the chocolate paste is apparently good.
[QUOTE=cplcollas;43218958]I've never actually had them but I have a friend who has had the aussie MRE's, the main meals are really just really thick goop that's supposed to be sauce and some chunks of what's supposed to be meat but the gatorade powder that comes with it is supposed to be amazing and the chocolate paste is apparently good.[/QUOTE]
Ours are like that, but no chocolate paste. We get crackers and either grape/apple/snozzberry jelly or peanut butter. They also come with flameless ration heaters that you can make MRE bombs with.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43219073]Ours are like that, but no chocolate paste. We get crackers and either grape/apple/snozzberry jelly or peanut butter. They also come with flameless ration heaters that you can make MRE bombs with.[/QUOTE]
I'd love to see how the flameless heater works and to get my hands on one, I've also heard that the USA's MRE's come with shit like reeses buttercup or reeses pieces and shit like that.
[QUOTE=cplcollas;43219122]I'd love to see how the flameless heater works and to get my hands on one, I've also heard that the USA's MRE's come with shit like reeses buttercup or reeses pieces and shit like that.[/QUOTE]
Rarely. We usually get these damn things:
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They're a mixture of congealed syrupy stuff and oatmeal. Chewy and bland.
cplcollas if you are seriously interested in joining up, I would suggest this site below. A lot of current/ex ADF personnel discuss on there. It also will give you 100x better/honest info on ADF life and especially riflemen role then a recruiter would give, or the ADF website.
[url]https://ausmilitary.com/forums/[/url]
Fresh meat for the grinder
[QUOTE=Complifused;43219946]Fresh meat for the grinder[/QUOTE]
What do you want?
[QUOTE=Complifused;43219946]Fresh meat for the grinder[/QUOTE]
That's a idiotic and naive thing to say.
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