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[Grey Fox]

We call it Broccoli head around here.

[HVC]

The mushroom head thing still in?

Circumcisions?

[Threviel]

So. With everything going to shit i've joined the Home Guard. Just back from my basic basic two weeks military training.

Due to the incompetence of a generation of politicians I trained on a H&K G3 built in 1967...

We had our final 36h exercise in blistering sun, running around in gas mask and shrapnel wests. Noone told me that soldiering was so hysterically sweaty. I sweated through and into my backpack and down to my knees.

[Syt]

Due to the incompetence of a generation of politicians I trained on a H&K G3 built in 1967...

So did I, 30 years ago

[Syt]

We had our final 36h exercise in blistering sun, running around in gas mask and shrapnel wests. Noone told me that soldiering was so hysterically sweaty. I sweated through and into my backpack and down to my knees.

Also: yes. Worst was the shitty "rain gear" we had. Some already got nice Goretex stuff, most of us still had rubber pants/jackets that made you sweat so much that it you'd be soaked either way.

Our basic training was during a particularly hot spell (over 30°C ... it was unusual for us at the time ), and during one of our first field days, our Captain assured us we'd have enough drink. Which ended up being a bottle of sparkling water of 0.7l. To share between two people. We had a few people collapse on the march back to base from exhaustion/heat/dehydration. Our captain got thoroughly chewed out by our base chief of medical.

Though we also then shifted our field days to start at 4-5 am (by which time it would already be fairly light outside) and take a long break during midday heat.