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o the mess hall if it was only 100 meters away on flat ground with nothing else i the way he d get lost trying to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the bottom of the boot he was what we commonly called a retard no offense to the mentally ill what made him even worse was he was a drunk to get to the range in our tracks we had to ride on the unpaved dirt roads at the training camp these roads were easy to follow first we had to go to range control and check in and let them know we were going to the range from range control it s easy to get to any of the ranges the big gun ranges are on the back side of a big hill so as you travel you go straight past range control then make right turns at no point do you ever turn left this is easy to see on the map so easy nobody should get lost but guess what sb took off in the lead track i was in the second track and two more followed behind me as soon as we left range control sb started down the wrong dirt road we should have been going west and he was going south he only stopped when the road he was on came to a dead end there was barely enough room for all of us to turn around but we did and followed sb a few times i saw him stop and pull out his compass i guess he didn t understand that all the metal around him was not going to allow the compass to work so we headed off in another direction of course it was wrong i finally figured out his method of navigation just keep wondering round until you found what the heck you were looking for i guess it would work if the space you were in wasn t bigger than your fuel tank so we went in another direction making left turns now remember i said that once we left range control it should have been all right turns so we went south then east then north then west then south again coming to a very very tall hill now to tell you the truth i don t recall the max angle that the old m113s were supposed to climb or descend but i m pretty sure that hill was pretty close to our danger point later i looked on a map and that hill was about 375 meters so we called it hill 375 a bunch of m113s now if you got to a hill and were pretty sure that it was not the way to go what would you do turn around well that would have been smart but remember we were dealing with sergeant bumble so he proceeded to have his track driver go up the hill i wanted to close my eyes because i don t like to see good soldiers get hurt but somehow the retard made it up the hill and told us all to follow him i could not get him to stop and listen to reason he just said i m in charge listen to me and let s go when we all got to the barbed wire fence at the top and had a dime size area to turn around on i was sure we were all going to roll over sideways and die going down the hill but god looks out for fools drunks and idiots and we made it however this time i out smarted the idiot and got in front and lead the way to the machine gun range years later i transferred to a different unit i ran into other soldiers who worked with sb they said he somehow got drunk on a deployment and got busted down in rank the deployment was not to a war zone so he wasn t able to get any of his troops killed he got out before the unit actually deployed to a real war thank god january 2005 baghdad iraq in a different unit after my team and i had returned from our first mission in iraq i was told that i d be going back to fallujah to show some officers some stuff i asked who was in charge of the convoy and they said don t worry about it you ll just be a passenger the morning we were forming up the convoy i walked over to one of the sergeants i knew and asked who was leading the convoy he said you are well for our trip to and from fallujah i did not lead it and really had no idea how to get there i asked who had been there before and knew how to get there all the drivers and truck commanders knew how so we got out the map and i had them show me the route we did not have any gps stuff at that time i made sure all the drivers knew how to get there and put the one who was most sure in the front i was not going to get us lost in a war once we got close to the camp i knew the way in and felt good about my decision we made it there and back without any drama just the way things should go posted by ci roller dude at 10 25 2013 07 10 00 pm 4 comments 12 september 2013 weapons cache from the soldiers side the first four month of my visit to iraq i had a special team we traveled around and had chats with some not so nice folks besides smelling really bad and often having the i q of a donkey they did not value human life as most of us do at the time we were in iraq the weapons laws for citizens there were more liberal than they are in many parts of the united states for example each adult male could have one semi or fully automatic sks or ak 47 without any special permits they could not have rpgs or belt fed machine guns the confusion that often came up was when there were more than one adult male in the home well hell many of the males had two or three wives and 25 kids so as the kids grew up a guy might have several adult males living in one house then some gi out on patrol would come across a home with more than one rifle and make a detention for a weapons cache when they came in with the evidence i d sort through it and tell them shit i know lots of folks back home who have more than that in the garage posted by ci roller dude at 9 12 2013 07 56 00 pm 3 comments 07 july 2013 we need them from the firearms instructor side as most of my regular readers know both of you that in my army and police careers i was a firearms weapons instructor i tried to add up how many cops and soldiers i ve run through ranges and advanced courses i m not good at math so help me out for the army cal guard we qualified at least once a year for 19 years the first year i was too dumb to know anything about 70 100 troops per range a handy off duty weapon m249 saw for police work 32 years the first year i was cop i helped on the range base on having been a grunt we d have ranges about 4 times a year with between 20 40 per range and then there were the boy scout ranges i ran on vacations when my boys were in scouts round that off to about 200 kids and adults so i know a little about weapons and teaching others to shoot what have i learned 1 firearms very rarely shoot by themselves they need a human to load and fire them most modern handguns have 2 or more safety systems built into them they will not fire unless the trigger is pulled this takes a human or in some cases a monkey firing pin blocks trigger safety and some have a thumb safety the 1911 of course has the grip safety 2 many cops and soldiers do not practice with their duty weapon as often as they should in some cases this is due to budgets in many cases it is because they don t like shooting and often they suck at it this can be corrected with good training 3 many senior cops and solders will not listen to a range master when he she tries to help them shoot better funny the civilians who ve paid lots of money do listen 4 there are a few citizens public officials and others who are afraid of all guns this is to the point of being a mental illness we can t correct this problem if you know anything about phobias like arachnid phobia hydra phobia clown phobia you know that these people can t help it they are very much afraid of these things and we can t change that however we don t like folks who are freaked out by spiders write laws to kill all spiders we need spiders we also need guns guns are used for lots of good things everyday today for example over 2 million guns were not used to commit any crimes today because they are owned by honest law abiding citizens today not far from where i live there are dozens of good citizens knocking little round clay things out of the sky with some very expensive shotguns there are others at another range shooting all kinds of rifles pistols and shotguns at paper targets before this day is over there will be some good citizens somewhere who are legally using some type of firearms to defend themselves or others remember the cops are only 6 minutes away when you need them in 20 seconds the anti gunner nuts never mention the good things firearms are used for they want to ban all guns they ll start with some now and work on the rest later this year it s semi auto rifles that they like to call assault rifles however most citizens i know who legally own these types of guns use them for target shooting why because they are very accurate the m16 s we qualified with in the army were able to fire a 3 shot group at 25 meters with the holes touching each other that s accurate the problem is you can t explain anything to an anti gunner when they see or hear gun they freak out remember it s like somebody who afraid of spiders or clowns you can t reason with them it s a mental illness their eyes glaze over they start having fits frothing at the mouth a big rise in blood pressure and their brains shut down it s a form of mental illness i hope the nra will soon recognize this and start a collection to get these poor assholes some help i also think that if you study the gun laws in the us you ll see that the cities and states with the most restrictive gun laws also have the highest violent crime rates cities and states that have shall issue concealed weapons permit laws have lower violent crime rates why posted by ci roller dude at 7 07 2013 03 31 00 pm 4 comments 16 june 2013 us army 238 years of tradition happy birthday us army from the old soldier side when i was in the regular army back in the 70 s we had changed many of the sayings and motto s for the army and our battalion it was something i carried on many years later when i joined the california army national guard some of those old sayings we changed us army we can break more shit before 9 than most people break in a year or my favorite us army we can waste more time before 9 than most companies waste in a month spec 4 ci roller dude somewhere in vest germany the only us army patch with the name of a city on it i was in west berlin for the july 4 th parade in 1976 we had every soldier who could walk and a few who couldn t march in that parade i love a parade as long as i don t have to march in it was our motto for the day there s dumb and there s army dumb one of genius spec 4 s e 4 now just called a specialist because they did away with spec 5 6 s and 7 s came up with something i never forgot the us army 200 years of tradition history and shit unchanged by progress or common sense i continued using that motto just updating the years for the rest of my career some of the silly shit the us army does is just baffling some of the leaders i had to work for were very good and i d follow them anywhere but many others were less than useless why anybody would have put some of these dummies in charge of people was something i could never figure out usually what i heard was i m the senior ranking person here so i m in charge in my last years in the guard on deployments fires earthquakes etc that sort of system failed many times in some cases the smarter bosses wouldn t put the dummy in charge even if he did have more stripes never sleep when the rubber chicken is loose well we can look back at the last 238 years and see what our army has done where it s been what it s done how much it s changed history along with the marines navy and air force i still read history books about past wars and i still wonder if our leaders have read any of them if you don t study history you are doomed to repeat it it seems like we have at least a few times there were many stories i ve read of past wars and thought that the players were the same just different equipment and different enemies but the story seems to repeat i read a story about soldiers in the civil war being issued food rations for 3 days then eating them all the first day because they were so hungry one training mission we did at fort irwin many years ago we were issued mres for 3 days to get us through the battle by the end of the first day half my guys came up to me and said sarge we re starving i just looked at them and thought that the troops really haven t changed over the years just the crap we carried ft ord about 1990 getting ammo ready for the m60 range the us army uniforms have changed many times since the 1770 s many times in the army s history the uniforms and weapons they were using at the beginning of some wars were not what they were using by the end this history lesson repeated around 2005 our unit was wearing bdus before iraq we wore them in bosnia then for iraq we were issued dcus part way through our deployment troops were arriving wearing the acus the acu s are the worst piece of shit uniform ever issued in our army s history polyester and velcro that fails when needed the most in my army national guard career i wore 4 combat uniforms in 1974 we were issued 2 sets of class a s dress uniform with a class b minus the green dress jacket 2 sets of khakis 4 sets of od green fatigues and a set of pt shorts and shirt and 2 pairs of black combat boots and 1 pair of black low quarter shoes for more history of army uniforms us army uniforms how come the marine uniforms always look better posted by ci roller dude at 6 16 2013 02 16 00 pm 8 comments 26 may 2013 just another 3 day weekend for mike and roberto like 1500 bc with cell phones from the soldier side i don t know if it s because i m getting older and sometimes have a little less patients for people who should try harder i had to sleep through another boring sermon in church today given by somebody who still hasn t a clue what memorial day is for i know some of you are wiping liquid off your keyboard after laughing about me going to church it won t make any difference i m still going to hell memorial day is to honor those in the military who died serving for their country it is not about those of us who made it home ok get it right or i ll have to start bitch slapping people sorry my old army sergeant thing kicked in for a minute so let s think about this what does a hay truck driver and a us border patrol agent have in common they like thousands of others were in the us army reserves or national guard and died in iraq both were friends of mine but i m sure neither knew the other and they were from two different units mike ottolini was in the 579 th combat engineers this was one of my old units and i had the honor and pleasure to work under mike many years ago he was one of the nicest guys and best leaders i had ever known in his normal life he drove a hay delivery truck mike was killed by cowards using an ied in november 2004 just a few weeks before i got to iraq mike roberto arizola was a us border patrol agent and in the us army reserves he was also a range master for the b p so we had started a conversation about shooting one day in baghdad we never got to finish that 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