Stryker 19K30 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Hello, I just discovered this program a few days ago. I am impressed. In 1998 while stationed at Fort Stewart, GA in 4/64 Armor I re-upped for Fort Lewis, WA, about a week later the IBCT concept was announced, and I was pretty bummed because I didn't want to fight on a wheeled vehicle, I was a tanker for God's sake. I was involved in the Stryker Brigade from the very beginning, assigned to the MGS platoon in B 1/23 Infantry. It was pretty lean times for a while, for the tankers anyway. We had no weapon system, we used anything from cargo humvees to borrowed Italian Centaros (such a horrible vehicle)to Canadian LAV IIIs. Then we got ITAS TOW launchers and humvees to mount them on. It wasn't what we wanted, and we were pretty bummed that the line platoons had their vehicles and our MGS was nowhere near ready to be fielded. Then we got our ATGM vehicles about 2 weeks before the first ever deployment of an SBCT, to NTC, and then the very next month a deployment to JRTC to certify us a combat ready unit. Anyways back to the game, I really dug that the training missions were in Yak, I hated that place and it is always cold and ****ty on MPRC. here is a picture of me in the commander's hatch of my Stryker ATGM in JRTC back in 03: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Welcome to the Forum! Thanks for your service. Many non-military types (like myself) will be more than a little interested in your first hand experience with Strykers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Welcome! I was a tanker for God's sake.Hey, at least they let you keep your coveralls There are two places that are apparently detested by grunts... Yakima and Ft. Polk. All other CONUS posts appear to be varying degrees better than these two spots! I've read a little bit about the very early days of the SBCT (IBCT at the time) development. I spoke with Lt. Colonel Chuck Hodges who was there trying to figure out how to make sense of it all at the higher level (he was a Major at the time). It's amazing to look at and compare it to other large shifts in US military history. Moving forward without waiting for the i's to be crossed and t's to be dotted (hey, it's the Army...). Definitely the way to go IMHO. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Let me put it this way. If they were ever going to give the Earth an enema, Yak is where they would stick the tube. I was at Lewis when it was light. Do you know how much it sucks to be light infantry in a treeless wasteland?! Welcome to the forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yardstick Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Welcome to the forum. I'm with A co in Baghdad. It's nice to see another Tusker! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handihoc Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Welcome! I'm non-military, Brit, but a wargame fanatic of manyyears. Really fascinated by you guys' real-world experience of the military and combat. You will find in Shock Force a superb, quite unique modern wargame/sim, backed up by a development team completely devoted to improving and building on it. If you're into WW2 I recommend checking out Theatre of War (big new patch incoming) and the early Combat Mission games too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Christ Angryson, I thought you just got back. Keep your head down man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 19K Welcome to the forum. I'm at Fort Lewis now (3rd Bde / 1-14 CAV). I'll never go to tanks after deploying with the Stryker. Combat Schoolbus all the way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1A1TC Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 There is nothing like a tank!! Screw you!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Now that potato peeling is done by civilian contractors I wondered what the military does with soldiers that don't salute or show up for inspection with their pajamas poking out of their Class As. My guess is it's another visit to downtown Baghdad SgtMuhammed, By my count Angryson is past the halfway mark of his latest adventure in Iraq. IIRC his downtime between deployments was indeed short, but he's been over there for a while. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Originally posted by Battlefront.com: Now that potato peeling is done by civilian contractors I wondered what the military does with soldiers that don't salute or show up for inspection with their pajamas poking out of their Class As. My guess is it's another visit to downtown Baghdad Oh, Its all good. Our NCO's have all kinds of creative ways to adjust Soldiers like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Spending the entire week wearing safety goggles to improve their defective vision is one option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Heh... that is hilarious. So, were which end of the glasses were you on? Since you were an NCO I have to believe that you were also a problem case prior to being one. I've seen the applications for E6 promotion and it quite clearly states that you're instantly disqualified if you have a perfect discipline record Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I always had a big mouth. When we were doing the Force XXI stuff my old CO was the liason with TRW for the infantry systems. When we went to Hood to sign for the stuff he gave me a specific order to just shut up and sign for it. Yes he knew it didn't work but there were things way above our pay grade that made the decisions for us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinty Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Wow, Angryson weren't you in Baghdad at the same time I was last summer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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