Fledermaus
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Who said his name three times?
Wasn't me....
Who said his name three times?
That's absurd money. They planned to kill you.
If I had to go combat arms it would be tanker. Free ride, heavy armor, if the weather is **** you can just button up and wait it out. Throwing a track sucks yeah, but at least you have three other people to help you with.
Army Cancels $45 Billion Bradley Replacement Competition After Only One Bid Qualified | Military.com
Seems third time wasn't the charm.
Throw a track at night, in the rain, while you're on the way back to the AA to get some rest, then get back with me...lol
The wash rack is the nightmare that follows the end of all field training as well as the end of a deployment before shipping em back.
We had a huge ass wash rack at Fort Hood. Every time we try to reserve it some pukes from 1st Cav would roll up and try to take over. I remember watching one of our old 1SG try to muscle his way past the Squadron leaders and he got shut down.
I know the wash rack you speak of, 4id had to charge in and take it because first cav thought it was theirs, sometimes 4id and 3rd acr teamed up to use the wash rack because 1st cav thought they owned fort hood.
All of Fort Hood when I was there that wasn't 1st Cav spent all their time trying to get daddy III Corps to notice them.
Can't see, can't hear, makes tons of noise, planes want it. Give me a foxhole.
Apparently Rhienmetall's bid, the Lynx 41, met the requirements but they could get a prototype fast enough because of transportation issues.
Lynx 41 disqualified from Bradley replacement competition
In hindsight they probably should have extended the program.
I was 7 years light and 3 years mechanized.
In peacetime, I'll take mechanized. Beats humping a ruck.
On the other hand, the Bradley is and has always been a piece of **** deathtrap.
I don't think I've ever heard a mech inf ever like their vehicles. I had a chance to sit down with some Polish People's Army vets a year or so ago and they had plenty of things to say about their old BMPs.
I'd tell you what the positives were but I don't recall any.
The BMP is notoriously garbage. It was apparently designed specifically to be a grunt-hibachi.
I'm not always smart.
The wash rack is the nightmare that follows the end of all field training as well as the end of a deployment before shipping em back.
Can't see, can't hear, makes tons of noise, planes want it. Give me a foxhole.
Survivability rates historically favor armor. Now days armor can see and hear better than you can.