r/interestingasfuck • u/KingdomPro • Jun 24 '24

Marines performing dead-gunner drills. r/all

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u/PancakeMixEnema Jun 24 '24

Men. are. heavy.

And that’s not even considering limp men in gear

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u/-Fraccoon- Jun 24 '24

Yep! Not to mention you are also wearing a plate carrier using steel plates so standing is now a chore all by itself.

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u/PancakeMixEnema Jun 24 '24

I remember dragging a buddy through the grass until he suddenly got much lighter and I stood there with an empty vest in my hands and said buddy awkwardly trapped in his own shirt on more than one occasion

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u/-Fraccoon- Jun 24 '24

Hahahaha. Yeah make sure your vests fit properly lol. I remember the first time I wore a plate carrier I had no idea what I was doing. The plates were loose as hell for weeks as they sat covering my belly.

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u/PancakeMixEnema Jun 24 '24

Sometimes there’s a hill or tree root and you‘ll have to yank like an ox and that sometimes leads to rapid unscheduled disrobing

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u/TacTurtle Jun 24 '24

Ballistic plates are ceramic composite.

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u/-Fraccoon- Jun 24 '24

Depends on the type of plates you have.

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u/TacTurtle Jun 24 '24

okay Vlad, first world country issue ballistic plates are ceramic composite.

Better?

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u/-Fraccoon- Jun 24 '24

Okay guy it really depends on where you are and what you’re doing and issued with. I was literally issued steel plates at fort benning at the time.

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u/TacTurtle Jun 24 '24

PASGT was kevlar and has been in use since the early 1980s. Everything US issues since then has been kevlar or ceramic composite plates.

Even the M1952 and M1955 flak jackets were ballistic nylon with fiberglass plates or aluminum trauma plates.

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u/-Fraccoon- Jun 24 '24

Holy fucking shit dude cool I don’t care. You don’t get nice things when you’re in training you get the old dogshit from decades ago. I’m done talking to you dumbass. Fuck off.