there was a decorated general with
a heart of gold, that likened him to
all the stories he told
of past battles, won and lost, and
legends of old a seasoned veteran in
his own time

on the battlefield, he gained
respectful fame with many medals
of bravery and stripes to his name
he grew a beard as soon as he could
to cover the scars on his face
and always urged his men on

but on the eve of a great battle
with the infantry in dream
the old general tossed in his sleep
and wrestled with its meaning
he awoke from the night
just to tell what he had seen
and walked slowly out of his tent

all the men held tall with their
chests in the air, with courage in
their blood and a fire in their stare
it was a grey morning and they all
wondered how they would fare
till the old general told them to go home

[CHORUS:]
I have seen the others
and I have discovered
that this fight is not worth fighting
I have seen their mothers
and I will no other
to follow me where I'm going

Take a shower, shine your shoes
you got no time to lose
you are young men you must be living
go now you are forgiven

but the men stood fast with their
guns on their shoulders not knowing
what to do with the contradicting orders
the general said he would do his own
duty bout would not extend it not further
the men could go as they pleased

but not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead
till one by one
they stepped back and not a word was said
and the old general was left with his
own words echoing in his head
he then prepared to fight

[CHORUS]


go now you are forgiven


*promote

Oh, well music videos are nearly impossible to sift around here.

In reply to this comment by smooman:
ya the one i got is an older vid. Sorted through the ones here on the sift and its not a dupe. It just shows the cycles of rates of fire and at the end shows the decimation, in various frame rates just to be more awesome, of a small structure at the hands of this beast

but damnit i just cant get my music vids to sift........you non music appreciating jaggofs!

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
That gun you're referring to is called "Metal storm" do a search for it, you'll see a couple already posted.

In reply to this comment by smooman:
I've got some great infantry porn vids (like the experimental US Military 1,000,000 rounds per minute box gun) but I cant get any of my damn vids sifted. Gonna give my current one a week before I scrap it and start posting the fun ones

ya the one i got is an older vid. Sorted through the ones here on the sift and its not a dupe. It just shows the cycles of rates of fire and at the end shows the decimation, in various frame rates just to be more awesome, of a small structure at the hands of this beast

but damnit i just cant get my music vids to sift........you non music appreciating jaggofs!

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
That gun you're referring to is called "Metal storm" do a search for it, you'll see a couple already posted.

In reply to this comment by smooman:
I've got some great infantry porn vids (like the experimental US Military 1,000,000 rounds per minute box gun) but I cant get any of my damn vids sifted. Gonna give my current one a week before I scrap it and start posting the fun ones

That gun you're referring to is called "Metal storm" do a search for it, you'll see a couple already posted.

In reply to this comment by smooman:
I've got some great infantry porn vids (like the experimental US Military 1,000,000 rounds per minute box gun) but I cant get any of my damn vids sifted. Gonna give my current one a week before I scrap it and start posting the fun ones

I've got some great infantry porn vids (like the experimental US Military 1,000,000 rounds per minute box gun) but I cant get any of my damn vids sifted. Gonna give my current one a week before I scrap it and start posting the fun ones

Tags for this video have been changed from 'US, Russia, Plasma, Jet, Heliplane, tanks, infantry, armor' to 'US, Russia, Plasma, Jet, Heliplane, tanks, infantry, armor, military porn' - edited by sometimes

*EIA

The old guys talk about this stuff in my classes. And I cannot help but wonder the stupidity of them. They would practice this stuff with live swords.

even in samurai era practice was done with Boken to prevent your fellow samurai and infantry from being killed, so needlessly.

Perhaps I should answer some of the questions or comments while I'm here:

@Oblyvious: many guards in the British tradition do wear the tall black hat, typically called a bearskin (and made of bear fur), as part of their uniform. I'm not sure what this guy is doing, although he actually seems not to be a palace guard (not guarding Buckingham Palace at least).

@MINK: I don't think you meant to say that a soldier on ceremonial guard duties is necessarily soft / not hardcore, so I'll use your comment as a springboard to a wider audience, since there are not a few people who tend to imagine that if a soldier is on ceremonial duties then that is all he does and is all he's good for. Again I'm not sure how the Brits do it (I reckon they use full-time troops and would guess that they rotate into / out of ceremonial duties) but in our case we reservists have the option of doing ceremonial duties during the summer (it's a big guaranteed chunk of money, esp. for those soldiers who are also students), while the rest of the year we're training with our usual reserve units practicing infantry shit. I know plenty of guys who have volunteered to do ceremonial duties one summer and then the next they were (again voluntarily) doing work-up training for deployment and the summer after that they were (voluntarily) on mission in Afghanistan. All this to point up the fact that soldiers doing ceremonial taskings are every inch "real" soldiers.

@AeroMech: I'm guessing that was tongue-in-cheek but ceremonial guards are exactly that -- ceremonial, there for the sake of tradition and pomp, as well as (it must be said) for the delight of the tourists. Going back a few hundred years when this sort of guard posting was for reals, when the guards actually had live ammo and were actually there to seriously guard some dudes, perhaps the guards were allowed to look around periodically. In any event they would have been able to walk a beat, during which they'd be able to see everything around them (the guard who's on the move in this video is walking a beat).

Also, yes, bewbs. Sex. ("Sex you've had or sex you haven't?" -- both.) Tourists are a chatty lot so you can listen in on their prattling if there's a bunch of them around. You people-watch, too (and girl-watch) if they happen to be around the center of your field of view.

@Shepppard: not fired, but extra duties if his superiors found out about it -- which, since it's on the you tubes, they probably did

I've done ceremonial guard duties for a bunch of summers (it's not a full-time thing, it's an occasional duty performed by (usually) reserve infantry soldiers), and mostly the things the tourists do to try and make you crack a smile just aren't funny. Them sticking out their tongues and waggling their fingers just isn't. You're standing there all sweaty, broiling in the sun, and your feet ache and you're just looking straight to your front and shifting your weight infinitesimally (enough to bring your dogs some relief, not enough for it to be noticed). And so on. The only time some dudes came close (and they weren't even trying) was when they started talking amongst themselves about the Imodium commercial with the palace guard in it, all yukking it up. I was about to infinitesimally bite the tip of my tongue to keep from joining them but they walked off and took their good times with them.

Once, though, a mosquito landed on my face just below the eye and started chowing down. I was still standing there like a wax statue but inside I was feverishly trying to think what I could do about it, which didn't take long as there were precious few movements I was allowed to make and I quickly concluded that there was nothing I could legally do which would have the slightest chance of dislodging it. After a full minute it could gorge no more and bumbled away; the bump swelled up as big around as a quarter and 3/8" high (and itched like a bitch of course).

On a more serious note, some female soldiers standing guard have reported getting groped by spectators in recent years. The first time or two that it happened there wasn't even a contingency plan in place because the higher-ups had doubted that anybody would do such a thing (that, and the guards are supposed to be watched by Mounties and/or commissionaires whose job it is to intervene).

*military

Send in the infantry... arrows cost money, the dead cost nothing

Headline from Democracy Now!, Sept 22, 2008:

"Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds."

Yes, he was especially right about Russian doomsday devices. He was also spot-on how ALL of US infantry would be killed there, as well as how Condi would be gang-raped by all the elite Iraqi soldiers who can cross the desert in an hour. His analysis of the US dollar (we're talking 2002 here) was flawless, especially considering how just a couple of years earlier most private savings in Russia as well as prices for virtually all consumer goods and even majority of private salaries were quoted in USD $.

Only truth out of this guy's mouth, indeed.

>> ^antimatter:
There are no jokes, only truth. HST

He was wrong about the iraqi army, but pretty much right about everything else.

Actually, calvados, electrocution = death by electricity. Anything less is being shocked.

But My base had the same problem - only no one was seriously hurt. Of course, My base also was not serviced by anyone. I was there in the relative beginning of the latter half of 2004. My base was hardly anything more than hooches and tents.

Out shower trailers, though, were fed by tanks of water (no pumps) that were elevated above the showers. Those tanks were filled by taking water out of a stream that ran through the base and filtering the water.
But we did have one trailer that shocked you when you touched it from the outside. I never could figure out why - but the electrical systems in that whole base were shoddy at best. I was constantly repairing them in my down time - often to the reward from VERY grateful Marines.

To clarify: My base had zero support personnel. It was Infantry, us (artillery) and the cooks. Sure, there were the water dogs (the guys that pumped and filtered water), ammo techs and medical support - but there were no Marines there for facility repair and construction.
During the day time, we had electricians (Iraqi Locals) that would come in and repair broken systems, but they only stayed during the day - and they could only fix so much shit at once - there were only two of them.

Word got around somehow that I was did electrical work before I joined. I would have people come to my hooch at night asking me to fix their lights or air conditioner. I would do it every time, mostly because there was no one else that would do it, and partly because they would "pay" me with shit they had like candy bars, Playboys, or whatever else.

It's pretty sweet what you can get when you hook up the chow hall guys with A/C, though. I was eating stuff I never knew the base had, like frozen pizzas.

Most Russian security guards are ex-military. Guess who had the largest infantry force right up to 1991. Do not fuck with them.

The 2nd amendment, if put into modern context, means that ordinary people should be able to buy:

Tanks
Armor-piercing anti-tank missiles
Infantry fighting vehicles
Helicopter gunships
Surface to Air missiles
3,000 mile ballistic missiles
Nuclear weapons

Ya know, the tools needed to overthrow the government militarily.

I say, do that if you believe in the 2nd amendment, or realize that there's a reasonable limit to the types of arms an individual should be allowed to own.

I'm not a proponent of a universal gun-ban, but there should be controls on who's allowed to have guns, what guns are available to citizens, and effective means to track their sale and use.

You have a right to free speech, but you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater. The same logic applies to the 2nd amendment, unless you're willing to allow private ownership of military equipment capable of defeating the regular military.