RE: I'm starting to just get exhausted of this adminstration what about you?
December 5, 2018 at 2:15 pm
(December 5, 2018 at 1:09 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 12:01 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Bush and Obama were both bad with financial matters.One half of that statement is true, lol.
Quote:When Clinton left office we had a financial surplus, not we're fighting over $20 trillion in debt. But then again, Clinton was a big of a scrooge sometimes. I was in the U.S. Army during his presidency, and we were always stuck using outdated equipment because they wouldn't fund the supplies we needed. I can't count the times we had to patch the same five-ton tire because they wouldn't send us a new one. Remember dot matrix printers with two-tone paper? That's mostly what I had to use when we weren't deployed, but more times than not we were writing things out with pens and pencils.Feel ya there. We were still using alot of the same garbage in Bush the Dumbers years. Strange, considering the disparity in deployment. I can understand pinching pennies when you're doing low level regime change and world policing. You'd think you'd want to buy good shit and get it out there before you launch a couple of wars of foreign adventurism.
It was kay, though...because we used our garbage pay to buy our own gear...so that our lives were being trusted to something that costs more than 89.31 on a supply summary, we just used those as pillows. I mean, my life is worth -at least- a few hundred more than that!
Then there was my -beautiful- hatchet. Much more useful than a bayonet or that silly folding shovel. Plus, it scared the piss out of the locals.
We were still using Brads, too. I never got to play with one of those fuckin LAVs.
I absolutely can't complain about my 249, though..or the PVS14 on top. Balla.....balla.......balla.
Hooah!
Nothing wrong with a hatchet. Those shovels though, had some good uses. There are certain places you need them, not so much for grenade sumps and trenches, but rather for burying your waste. Not only can people track you, but animals can as well, and many will. I was 1-AD and we had boars that would chase people up on to the M1A1s. I don't want things tracking me when I have to sleep in a tent or on the ground.
I remember the Brads, but we didn't have them. Mostly M1s and mortar carriers. Loved the M1s, especially in the winter. Just stand behind one while it's running and you've got the world's greatest heater.
