Comments - iambatkam

Only 3 tanks in the world use Chubum Armor, which is the main reason the Abrams is so awesome. The British Challenger, German Leopard, and the American Abrams. Take a look at the war in Georgia and Chechnya and the Performance of the T-90 vs the Iraq war and the performance of the Abrams. T-90's were killed by no more than 3 RPG-7 hits (there is video), while when I was in Iraq, I saw an Abrams take 23 RPG-7 hits before us dismounted infantry finally killed all the RPG gunners, and the Abrams had some dings and nicks, but that was it. Not saying the T-90 isn't a fine piece of equipment, because it is, but no one aside from the Brits make equipment as good as American equipment, and in fact, if you want to talk smack about American equipment, the Americans use a lot of British (Chubum and other Armor), German (Optics and Small Arms), and Belgian (the M-249 SAW and the M-240 LMG) equipment. That comes from 36 months spent in Iraq and Afghanistan and 10 years in service as a REAL infantryman (including 4 with 1st SFG as a Weapon Sergeant), not just someone who thinks his is the best because it is made by his country. Do some real research, not play video games and watch movies if you want to talk about quality of equipment.

You are correct Mr. Spoon :P

You could always ask an active duty (or recently retired) infantryman/armor crewman for info on stuff... I have found most websites are wrong anyways.

Boonies or Operator Hats would be cool... I wore my Operator Hat whenever I wasn't being watched by higher-ups.

I spent 10 years in service (4 with SF), and out of all my deployments and training, I only used the LAW in training. SMAWs and AT-4's are like 90% of our operating rocket weapons

Hate to break it to you, but no, you don't... Unless you are with Group, you get what they give you.