Military - October 2007

My friend insists he's taken SWAT team training courses ...
He's 15. I wouldn't think an elite authoritary unit would want to teach his/her secrets and knowledge to an adolescent. This guy also thinks that the Desert Eagle is "a gun any idiot can use and has no kick" ... I'm not sure what type of dg's he's used but the ones i've used are heavy, innacurate, and pack some kick in them.

2007-10-09 16:42:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know the lies your recuiter told u in order to get u in. Is u want to know why i'm asking, search my profile, on my Q&A.
U can enumerate them if u want.

2007-10-09 15:49:50 · 11 answers · asked by Pinky 5

What are the likely consequences? What should other nations do if one nation, having no choice, really does it?

2007-10-09 15:48:42 · 10 answers · asked by Dolphin-Bird Lover8-88 7

this question just came into my head and i was just curious

2007-10-09 15:43:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

if i am a navy sniper is there anyway to keep my gun?

2007-10-09 15:41:47 · 19 answers · asked by matthew Overton 2

I'm terrible at math but I can read and write and speak spanish perfectly i took AP spanish all my 4 years in high school and in addition i'm a native spanish speaker. And of course I can speak english too and i can understand portuguese.

I'm not going to college (so please dont ask me to go to school.)

I'm only good with languages and fixing things.
And i'm in good physical condition.

Any ideas?

2007-10-09 15:39:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just recently joined the Navy Reserve in this new program called the NAT Program, from what I read it is the New Accession Training program only open to people who score and 40-49 on the asvab and the only jobs open to that program are the global war on terror jobs like MA. or CB's.

I signed up as a Master At Arms and my recruiter and everyone at MEPS tells me I can forfit my Signing Bonus of $20,000 before I end my A School to go active. Funny thing is no one can show me this on paper, and all i keep getting is a run around from recruiters about what i can and cant do in this NAT program.

So my question is does anyone know if I can forfit that bonus given to me on my contract to go active?

2007-10-09 15:19:56 · 3 answers · asked by Mike S 1

2007-10-09 15:19:09 · 10 answers · asked by yahooanswers 3

I ETS june 2008 but OCS starts March 2008. I would like to get half of my bonus from my enlistment and I also want to get a re-enlistment bonus. How do I time this if I want to re-enlist and go to OCS? how long is the process of getting the OCS packet together.

2007-10-09 14:52:04 · 3 answers · asked by It is what it is 3

Ok this is a followup question to several I've been asking about different aspects of living with your military husband. Ok, I'm back and forth about going with him. My mother and mother in law want me to stay home so they can support me and our new born baby. (He will be born and aroound one to three weeks old when my husband finishes his Infantry Training. I really want to be with him and I want us to be a family. Plus he's only been gone since August 27th but I miss him so much it almost hurts. So after he finishes and comes home on leave for a few weeks what would happen if I and the baby go with him to his new duty assinnment? Will we have a place to stay? What about transportation. We both drive (he and I NOT the baby lol lol) but we won't have a car with us. Also I found out that he will probably be assigned there for a limited time until he is deployed (15 months of not seeing him oh horrors!!). From a previous questionit could be as little as 45 days.Where dowe live?

2007-10-09 14:09:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why did Napoleon effort to subdue Britain fail?

2007-10-09 13:58:42 · 4 answers · asked by lilbounce88 : ) nb 2

These are not in my book, I have looked in every Civil War chapter. The questions are:
Who is the last general to surrender to the North?
and
Where was the last shot fired of the Civil War?
If you could please help me with these, I would really appreciate it! And it would be helpful if you could supply a webpage or a source, but you don't need to.
Thanks to all who answer!!

2007-10-09 13:38:19 · 10 answers · asked by Hockey_Chick 1

It really is difficult to remain unbiased when it comes to discussing Americans. They arrogate to themselves the right to act as this planet's policeman, to condemn other countries for real or perceived breaches of human rights and to rail against forms of government which in American eyes are less democratic than theirs. As Americans are such good Christians, surely they know the passage in the Bible that says: "O thou hypocrite, before thou wouldst remove the splinter from thy brother's eye, attend to the beam in thine own eye!" Never has a passage from the Bible been more apt. So naturally do Americans become defensive when their own shortcomings are pointed out to them, because to face the truth would be unbearable.
Which other self-proclaimed peace-loving country has waged so many wars against smaller defenceless countries, has allowed the members of their military to commit atrocity after atrocity going back to WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam, and now Iraq?
In what other country do you need to be a millionaire or at least be able to raise millions in order to be elected to parliament or chief executive?
Where else on this globe has the education system broken down and/or deteriorated to such an extent that children no are no longer able to read and write or do simple arithmetic and need to take remedial classes upon entering college?
In which other country with the exception of certain Middle Eastern nations does a small fundamentalist religious minority have the power to manipulate both government and the media to enforce a Victorian concept of morality upon an unwilling population?
I could go on and on, but let this suffice.
No wonder Americans are sensitive when it comes to discussing their shortcomings

2007-10-09 13:34:29 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

navy reserve recruit(SW) trying to get more info

2007-10-09 13:06:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ft Irwin is the training site right for NTC? What is the closest airport?

2007-10-09 12:55:50 · 5 answers · asked by Rina 5

You dont Know jack sh*t, brother! Im in Iraq right now, ramadi actually, and things are really turning around here! Its 100% safer here now than 10 months ago! you should see all the kids playing ;)

2007-10-09 12:44:28 · 14 answers · asked by BadboY 2

I'm a prior Army going to the Marines, well I get picked on or singled out more then others going throu Basic by the Drill Instructors?

2007-10-09 12:38:55 · 14 answers · asked by crazyrain 2

2007-10-09 12:21:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 12:11:40 · 5 answers · asked by chrisvoulg1 5

If so, what if something happens here in the USA? Are there enough units still here to assist in a crisis? Isn't the pursose of the National Guard to defend our nation here?

2007-10-09 12:04:07 · 10 answers · asked by love 6

freedom and democracy? the american way? lol.

2007-10-09 12:00:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:59:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:57:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

when truman was elected. and back then they didn't have the margin of error. truman won by a smidgen.

so polls are reliable, like it or not.

2007-10-09 11:54:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The survey included 944 military respondents interviewed at several undisclosed locations throughout Iraq. The names of the specific locations and specific personnel who conducted the survey are being withheld for security purposes. Surveys were conducted face-to-face using random sampling techniques. The margin of error for the survey, conducted Jan. 18 through Feb. 14, 2006, is +/- 3.3 percentage points.

2007-10-09 11:52:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

are there exercises/training that deals with height/extreme height in basic training, etc?

thank you

2007-10-09 11:52:27 · 21 answers · asked by Moore55 4

Released: February 28, 2006
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006


Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed”
While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy
Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown
Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks
Majority of troops oppose use of harsh prisoner interrogation
Plurality of troops pleased with their armor and equipment
An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows.

2007-10-09 11:48:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

zogby poll.

2007-10-09 11:46:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:41:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-09 11:37:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous