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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 29 2013, 04:00:07 AM (873 Views) | |
| Warmonger | Apr 29 2013, 04:00:07 AM Post #1 |
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I've been reading Chris Kyle's autobiography, American Sniper. I've got to say, its entertaining to read but depressing as all fuck because of what happened to him. You read passages where his wife is all paranoid about him not making it through the war, he does but then he gets killed in his own home town at a gun range by some crazy dude he was trying to help. Its just sad as fuck thinking about it. I've also been toying with the idea of joining the military to see action. I like the idea of killing bad guys, the killing a person bit doesn't bother me if they have it coming, however I don't like the idea of being killed... lol that would kind of suck for my family and all... I'd hate for my grandparents to deal with that but honestly, they'd probably be gone by then anyway and everyone else I know can get by easily without me... I don't really have good prospects on life and the most I can see myself amounting to is being some dead beat motherfucker. I really just don't see success in my future due to my SA. I'm 24 and I've never even held a job or had a girlfriend... fucking bullshit... I want to join the military and be a badass! |
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| sulk | Apr 29 2013, 04:16:31 AM Post #2 |
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"The Red Badge of Courage" is a classic that everyone should read. Edit: *must read. -goes without saying, really. Edited by sulk, Apr 29 2013, 04:18:50 AM.
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| TheVrajMeister | Apr 29 2013, 08:32:08 AM Post #3 |
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Catch 22. Awesome book. I've read it when I was serving my military duty to my country. Summed up pretty much the whole Army. |
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| Gene | Apr 29 2013, 01:38:01 PM Post #4 |
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Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence is a pretty good read about the SAS in the Gulf War. |
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| Vodou Marekaj Fantom | Apr 29 2013, 03:44:52 PM Post #5 |
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...Die By The Gun
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Jarhead and Generation Kill, two AMAZING books |
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| Fly!ng Fox | Apr 30 2013, 06:21:28 PM Post #6 |
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Bravo Two-Zero by Andy McNab Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy <-- Favorite Those Devils in Baggy Pants by Ross Carter Rogue Warriors by Richard Marcinko |
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| Shyne | Apr 30 2013, 06:28:44 PM Post #7 |
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Might give that a look. Soldier I by Pete Winner/Soldier I/Snapper One of the SAS bunch I've researched for a while, was a good read, very personal and with his unique hard nosed northern character about it. Bought it to read about the Mirbat battle and see if he gave more info about Labalaba and other squad mates. SO much other great stuff in there. Edited by Shyne, Apr 30 2013, 06:29:40 PM.
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| Reaper | Apr 30 2013, 08:24:20 PM Post #8 |
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I should check out the Rainbow Six book. Also, isn't it Rogue Warrior, singular, not plural? |
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| Fly!ng Fox | May 1 2013, 12:16:55 AM Post #9 |
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Yes it is. |
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| Helikaon | May 1 2013, 02:14:33 AM Post #10 |
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Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden Generation Kill by Evan Wright |
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| Fly!ng Fox | May 1 2013, 03:22:35 AM Post #11 |
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I forgot to add Black Hawk Down as well, I enjoyed the read way more than the movie, which surprised me. Way more immense than the movie. I couldn't finish Band of Brothers when I read it in the 7th grade, I'll have to try it again. |
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| Warmonger | May 1 2013, 05:18:24 AM Post #12 |
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Anyone read No Easy Day? That book about the Osama mission? I get the feeling that its just a cash-grab. I haven't read it, admittedly but it kind of just feels like Ian Halpherin's book, "The last days of Michael Jackson' that released literally only a month after MJ died. Anywho, the book I've really been wanting to read is Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson. Its the book about Carlos Hathcock... |
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| matthew_11C | Jun 4 2013, 09:36:04 PM Post #13 |
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Oh, lord. I'm an ex-Infantryman (I was in from 03-08; deployed OIF 06-08). Anything about World War One I will read; IF i haven't already. Lots of technical and field manuals always came in handy...one kind of ironic thing about the games is that, while they're usually a decade or two before their time (The Boss's 'Patriot' pistol AR wouldn't be developed until the early 1980s; the helicopters that hauled the Shagohad away right before she nukes the research facility, as I am sure many of you know, are mi-24 HINDs. On 24 AUG 1964, the HIND helicopter wasn't even in it's design phase (that didn't happen until 1966), not having it's first flight until 19 SEP 1969, and finally not entering service until 1970.) But, having gone through the whole Iraq thing, and having tried various set ups on my body armor, I actually ended up with a rig that ended up looking amazingly like John's in Snake Eater. Little tweaks here and there, (I adjusted my knife and put the sheath a bit lower, behind the ammo pouches so it'd be more difficult for the enemy to get at. This problem has actually been solved quite recently by two companies: Benchmade and Spartan knives: Benchmade makes the SOCP( http://www.benchmade.com/products/176 ;if you click on the PDF link 176 Molle® extraction, you'll see something VERY familiar ,which was actually codesigned with Greg Johnson (the guy who teaches and helps develop USSOCOM's combatives system, and Spartan's CQB tool ( http://www.knifeart.com/spartancqb.html ) but basically that was it. (No sidearm, I was lower enlisted, so as far as my unit was concerned, we could qualify with them, but not carry them into combat. I was OK with that anyhow; we carried Beretta M9 pistols in 9mm ball, a vastly underpowered firearm with that type of ammunition. Geneva rules of war and all. If you're a shooter and have ever shot a Beretta model 92FS, that's it...the funniest thing is that the whole reason the US Army WENT to the .45 ACP was because during the Philippine War, the standard sidearm at the time (a .38 revolver) wasn't effective against charging/enemies at short ranges! Anyhow, sorry for getting off track there! I read up a lot about weaponry of all types, I try my hardest to keep up with how various nations are doing militarily...The People's Republic of China is actually shockingly close to becoming a superpower which Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemony.", which is fairly frightening. By this definition, the ONLY thing standing in their way is the lack of a large naval presence, which they are working on at a breakneck pace. They're well trained (to the point of fanaticism), well armed, and have much better technology than we give them credit for; just because the're flooding OUR economy with crap, does NOT mean that that's what they're giving themselves. Their new MBR (Main Battle Rifle, ours is the M16A4/M4 platformed weapon, for example) is called the type 95 or the QBZ-95. It fires a new 5.8X42mm round that, by all accounts, outperforms both the 5.56 and the 7.62X39 (what the AK-47 variants fire), and fires at a muzzle velocity that is only 10 metres per second less than the M249 SAW. Sorry, off track again! It happens a lot...I got a double slam of PTSD and a TBI in the some bad parts of my brain to have one if you're an Infantryman...on my left side, my whole parietal lobe, the bottom of my temporal lobe, and the very rear/bottom of my frontal lobe. In a nutshull, because of where it happened physiologically and when it happened chronologically, I am basically a dude who is mentally stuck on a battlefield in Iraq in 2007. That's why I keep babbling, basically. If it's military related, I'm all over that shit, because it's basically all I know about. That and anything I knew prior to 2007, but even that was 70 per cent military related! So sorry again for having a rant, but I thought one or two of you out there might enjoy it, especially the CQB knife....the one that John uses in the game is a Strider model HT-S, which has an overall length of 8 and a half inches, blade length of 4.5, 3.5 of which is cutting surface, and a thickness of .250 inches, surrounded by a single binding of paracord (an eighth of an inch on each side of the handle). Tha'ts a whole half inch of which you have to be able to control effectively WHILE properly gripping and utilizing a 1911A1 (90mm/ just over 3 and a half inches; and yes, I know he whittled it down a bit...let's say 3mm so there was still actually some wood there!), leaving us with 3.42+a half inch...that's STILL 4 inches, 4 times the grip width of my Glock 19! John must have had some GIANT hands!
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| matthew_11C | Jun 4 2013, 09:48:49 PM Post #14 |
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John Clancy puts out some exceptional stuff; he really does his homework when he writes something. And, because of all that homework, he actually is one of the few civilians who really, truly knows what s/he is talking about. He's made friends in some pretty high places politically and militarily. You can even see it when you play one of his R6 games; the FAMAS, when fired cyclically, empties a magazine like that. .45s have more recoil, yet more stopping power. Everything is taken into account, even your body armor weight (and I am sure that his were the first games to do this, even as far back as the PS1). He even once made a game that (although i thought was brilliant, sold very poorly) was nothing but you basically acting as an operations officer. You had blueprints, and a set of parameters you could set (known or unknown number of hostiles and hostages, different buildings; some being easy, some tactical nightmares, inter alia). You did all the planning: stealth entry here, creep past this window while high crawling, flashbang the next room, assault, hopefully your guys and the hostages all live, the targets all die. But once you hit 'enter', you didn't control anyone. You were a bystander in a sense, who could switch your POV from operator to operator, but that was it. I don't remember the exact name....something 'spear.' Anyhow, I credit that game with about 30-40 per cent of my ability to clear a building well
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| Sword | Jun 4 2013, 09:58:30 PM Post #15 |
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Seal Team Six is pretty good. It's the real account of an ex-seal sniper. I've been wanting to read more books like it. |
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