Air Force Combat Controller?
I signed up for the Air Force Combat Controller Apprentice job, and im leaving out in april. What should I expect during combat controller training that will be difficult.. What should I be working on right now to ensure im good and ready. Im already in pretty good health.. im getting fairly close to a black belt in northern shaolin... and trained decently in jiujitsu.. How many pushups in what time period? distance running? Mock pow camp events.. ect... Air Force boot camp im sure will be easy.. but I know the Combat Controller Job is gonna be alot harder, and I dont wanna rely on boot camp to get me ready. Thanks Ahead for the info! Im already reading field manuals, fm 21-76 survival.. ect..
Do fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards count in a duel?
I bought a fake deck of Yugioh cards (Photon dragon deck) at the dollar store and I have a bunch of powerful legendaries like the full Exodia but my friend wants to duel me with his real cards so can i use my fake yugioh deck? I only have like 4 real yugioh cards
Which is a better fighting unit in combat the US Army or the US Marine Corps?
I agree with James, the guy who said Airborne leads the way on on this one. Airborne All the Way!There is an old saying in the Marines that can vary, but it still illustrates the answer to this question. My version is, “Soldiers do, and Marines do without.” Meaning the Army is fully equipped, locked and loaded, backed with plenty of support, and ready to fight, but the Marines just make shit happen with barely any of that. There is some propaganda to support this notion. See below.You can obviously see there is a rivalry there. The two branches love to hate each other, but they fight for the same cause. Each one is ran differently and has different capabilities and specialties. The upper crust keeps that in mind when they put forces in areas they expect fighting.In my experience with the Marines, I can definitely vouch for the different types of fighting. Flat out, Marines are batshit crazy when they are deployed to a combat theater. I mean the kind of crazy that you hospitalize for back in civilized nations. I don’t know what they feed them or give them shots in the butt for this behavior, but whatever it is works. They are more a shock force and great for deploying first, because they are nuts. They are very good at killing and disrupting the enemy. They disrupt other branches when they are near them as well, so the Army and Marines are kept apart as much as possible.Army grunts are their own type of special.But in all honesty, you don’t want either pointed at you and let off the leash, because they are both effective fighters.
Would 1000 Vikings or 100 US army soldiers win in combat against each other?
The Vikings would be obliterated. They'd never even see the modern soldiers before they were blown to pieces.Heck, a single soldier with an M134 Minigun - Wikipedia could get the job done.
What consist of an overseas short or long tour, operational deployment, combat, restricted tour in the army?
A short tour overseas is usually one year. This includes places like Korea and is usually unaccompanied. A long tour is 2-3 years depending if you bring dependents or not. This is usually a place like Germany, Italy or Japan. Deployment is when you (usually as a unit) move out to another country for various reasons. My hubby has been deployed to Egypt for training and Iraq for combat, along with other various areas. These last any length from a month to a year or 18 months. Temporary Duty is anytime you go to another post location for school, duty, training or other reason. The length of time for this varies greatly. That's about all I know from a spouses view after 18 years. Someone else may be able to give you more information in these areas. Hope it helped somewhat.
Why do the British Army and Marines seem to mock the RAF regiment so much?
It goes to a core difference between the Royal Navy/Marines/Army and the RAF. In the latter, only officers see combat. There are no NCO fighter or helicopter pilots. Whereas in both the Navy/Marines/Army NCOs fly helicopters; and officers and men fight alongside each other. This might seem minor to civilians, but to soldiers and sailors it means a great dealThere is a perception that the RAF tries to big up the role of the RAF Regiment to obtain combat parity. But the regiment lacks any combat history; and while its personnel are undoubtedly fit and reasonably well trained, the unit still suffers from what the other two arms see as a civilian approach to war. The RAF is hidebound with health, safety and HR practices and regulations that have little place on the battlefield.Nor have attempts to claim Special Forces parity for some RAF Regiment units gone over well. They simply do not have the same mindset as their Navy/Marines/Army equivalent, nor the same level of training. There is a perceived arrogance. . . or perhaps wingeing as in ‘we are the Few, we won the Battle of Britain, we saved the UK, we should be allowed to belong.’Update: it’s been pointed out that the RN/Fleet Air Arm fast jets are only flown by officers. True. Nonetheless, the ship/carrier fights as a whole with officer, nco and rating alongside each other. And as said, battlefield helicopters are flown by Navy/Marines/Army NCOs. My own personal experience is that RAF helicopter pilots are trained to be risk adverse to an extent the other Services find counter productive and annoying.
Army vs Marines in paintball?
I think it's Uber-Ghey, but I hate paintball in general, so go figure. After working at at Urban Operations site for over a year where they used paintballs and yelling at people for using paintball tactics in MOUT, I've developed a strong dislike for paintball and paintball aficionados. Playing paintball is more of an individual effort, not a team effort like you need in MOUT Ops. Plus I got tired of cheesedi*k NCOs and Officers showing up with their $3,000 fully-auto paintball guns that shoot 400 fps instead of the M4 replicas set at 250fps that fire semi-auto they are supposed to use to shoot at the privates. It seemed like they were trying to compensate for a shortcoming in another area...
Whad did Choki Motobu mean when he said Gichin Funokoshi can only imitate Karate not actually do it?
Choki Motobu and Gichin Funokoshi had a long standing feud, they hatted each other with such passion . And choko made sure to embaress funakoshi ever chance he got. I don't but much stock into what he said or claimed about funakoshi. Besides many okinawa's didn't like the way funakoshi presented karate and made changes to it, to make it japanese The Japanese or more specifically the JKA made a lot of changes to shotokan, the shotokan taught today isn't what funakoshi taught, shotokai is closer. Hence the big slit between the two. The JKA wanted karate to be striking and a sport. They removed most of the grappling. The okinawa's refused to recognized what funakoshi did for karate at least many of the masters did. They left him out of an important meeting after he made all the break throughs with Japan in getting karate recognized by them Adam, if you knew anything about martial arts then you would know who those two people are instead of posting some bs spam crap, that had nothing to do with the answer