I ship out at the end of the month, as a person older than 19 not gonna lie I'm shitting bricks a bit lol I just don't want to be shit at my job or be a shitbag
back in ancient times we werent allowed to paint weapons, sadly. but on a course i did in 1980 i got close. went to a bow hunting shop in sydney. got some cam bowtape and a pair of bow sleeves. the bow sleeve had velcro tabs to secure it and was exactly the right length for the barrel plus not interfering with float. the tape i applied to the scope and timber. the tape colours unfortunately rubbed off after a few weeks revealing a white base. the instructors got interested. the leftover tape is visible on the rifle in the blue covered training pam. they lost interest when i told them it was $20 a roll. ps: was a medal awarded for making the issue rifles black?
Digger is a British term given to The Maori people who perfected trench warfare against the British colonisers back around about 200 years ago a digger is a term given to the white Australian soldier who cowards in a hole and hides
A lot of guys were Bastardised in the ADF to the point that they left after 2-3 years sadly by many on that list. Yes, during BFT's as we called them, we had unusal types that passed ,when to look at them you never thought that they would. A lot of us did the Barrier Test, same thing. As for Ukraine we have what we called LARP'ers here and there are various subcategories , those who think they are Military (read copious amounts of info on Mil Doctrine) .Those pretend to be with forged docs, and even pretend to be other people ( cousins.friends,other family members). Others who are sportyguys who went to a GunClub a few times a year. Not all have been weeded out sadly. Then you get guys who SAY they served , ( read "Cadets" ) and still others others who have been found out to just be AirSoft dropkicks and nuckfuckles......
Oh how I miss (not) being told by someone who wasn't even a fucking yellow belt, weighed less than 78 kg yet was fat, had ZERO deployments BUT had been in 8 months longer than me that the: "JUBES need to learn their place"!! They wonder why we wanted out!
@@petervolya8667 absolutely LOVED being "asked" (told) by a female NCO before a BFA to be considerate to a Karen on the 2.4 klm..... because she's had a bad day and feels demoralised by the "toxic masculinity" of military fitness bla bla bla. I refused to come in over 9 minutes and as a result was shunned for months EVEN though I was idling for the first 600 metres. Not to mention that this little cunt had started the "senior dig" rant the DAY I marched into the unit, took 1 look at me and laughed adding: "Wait till you JUBES see REAL fitness" and "This isn't Kapooka etc, etc" basically I used her face as toilet paper.....these Senior digs are: Above 105 kg (15% bodyfat), Above 2nd Dan black belt, Do over 80 push-ups in the 2 minute test, Run 2.4 klm UNDER 08.40, Group under 75 mls at 300 metres with 20 rounds, Actually look like they've been in a fight, Have got 24 months more time in, HAVE DEPLOYED...... And I'm HAPPY to "Know my place" They fucking wonder why they are hated!!!
I'd heard an American once refer to another bloke, a fellow shipmate, on board his visiting ship, as a 'Dolphin Waxer'..but that was used as a very negative connotation toward the other individual..and NOT as his occupation or MOS. That was over 2 decades ago now..(I discharged in late '97 and it was prior to that)..so I'm guessing this 'dolphin' thing has been a thing has been around for quite awhile.. Kinda funny, though..either as an 'occupation' or MOS, or just as an implied, negative connotation.. I always assumed it refered to someone who was essentially a "well polished & practiced wanker" was my take on it.
I think my older brother is the family man and ciggy BFA guy He joined the Australian Army at 34 and never smoked before but now we never see him without one 😂
In one unit I was in, we instigated admit them to the hospital ward Fridays for people who tried to ling out of the stomp. As that ward only had an on call doctor over the weekends, this meant that they would not be discharged until Monday. Stomp or lose ya weekend.
literally surreal seeing the townsville mad cow in this video. i moved away and havent seen that place in years. it was the biggest fucken hole for AJ's lmao
One guy missing!!! THE JOKER/ Clown/Jackinabox who keeps the lads laughing no matter what the situation. Always has a smile on his face and can't be kept down. Disrespects authority but his superiors still love having him around because he's good for morale. Probably one of the most important guys in the squad
I look at the coats of wild animals to see what I might learn about camouflage. I think small wild cats have have the most developed patterns on their coats. What they have is very much like domestic "tabby" cats. What I notice is that they often have white on the low and bottom facing surfaces of their body. That is, white paws, white bellies and white chins. They also have more dark colour on the top of their body, with thicker stripes or even solid dark grey on the top of their backs. Why is this? Camouflage designers seem to me to understand foremost that you need to match the variety of colours and shapes of the object to its background. An example is the soldier to the environment, or as the maker of this video points out, for a rifle, the rifle needs to match the shirtfront of the man carrying it. What I dont hear camouflage designers talk about as much (in my very limited experience by the way, I'm just a civilian) is that during most of the day, objects catch more light on their top surfaces and have less light or shadow on their bottom surfaces. So while an object might be painted very well to match its background, parts of it are in fact not lit the same as the background directly behind it, and this creates a contrast, ruining the continuity of camouflage between rifle and shirtfront. The top of a rifle (which is flat to the sky and sun and catches a lot of light) is against the soldiers shirt front (which is vertical to the sky and sun and catches mostly only reflected light or oblique sunlight). Because of this different lighting, even an identically matching shirt and rifle will not camouflage together. The well lit top surface of the rifle is lighter than the shirt behind it when viewed by an observer at the same level. Going back the coats of wild cats and tabby cats. I think nature has countered this effect (of the light orientation of a surface) by making top surfaces (backs) darker and bottom surfaces (bellies) lighter. So what is my proposition for rifles ? I dont know, but I think it would be worth trying, to paint your rifles with darker shades of camouflage along the top surfaces of the rifle. Maybe you could paint your rifles in the usual way (on each side), but then do a second step just spraying down along the top of the rifle with the dark colours in your palette. Or if you are using an air brush kit, mix up a little black into each colour of your palette and then repaint the top of the rifle. Just to repeat, you are only darkening the top surfaces of your rifle enough to counter the fact that it is more lit than your shirt front. You are only going a shade or two darker, you are not going fully dark. I dont think the bottom surface of the rifle would need to be made lighter, as both the bottom of the rifle and shirt are given similar light. Though I could be wrong, it might be worth lightening the colours on the bottom surfaces of your rifle. And since I am a fan of overkill, here are a few more ideas: Maybe only one side of the rifle needs to be camouflaged against the shirtfront, the side that is facing outwards while being carried. The side of the rifle that is against your body while being carried might be better camouflaged against the environment, not your shirt, as this side of the rifle is only seen by a viewer when the rifle is in a ready position against background environment. I am only considering a viewer (or enemy) looking from a similar level, not from above like a bird or plane or from below where the object might be silhouetted against the sky. Again, I am a civilian with an imagination not a soldier with experience, but it seems to be that now drones are common in a battlefield, it might be important to camouflage oneself from the point of view of a drone in the sky as well as from the point of view of an enemy on the ground. Lastly, if my ideas about the orientation of surfaces and the light on them has any merit, the idea might extend from rifles against shirtfronts to soldiers against environment. Maybe its better camouflage to darken the tops of your shoulders and helmet and lighten the crotch of your pants and inside of the legs. ta
