[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070304 um 0442 Uhr #1010

im new around here and i figured i would say hello,

im caleb and im 22 and im from Nanaimo BC in Canada,
i have probably one of shittyist jobs around now that i had to leave my last one cause
i didnt want to get stuck behind a desk.

[thesunsetter]

thesunsetter on 20070304 um 0705 Uhr #7399

Greetings, welcome to VTK, I couldn’t agree more with you on the office situation. I’d hate to work in one. Anyway take care, and I hope you enjoy it here…

[maestro]

maestro on 20070304 um 1727 Uhr #7400

Hallo and welcome to VTK, we’re so deskless it hurts, even the website is designed from out of my bed

[dark_child]

dark_child on 20070304 um 2318 Uhr #7401

Hello and Welcome.

[necromancerza]

necromancerza on 20070305 um 1030 Uhr #7402

Welcome to VTK.
Desk jobs have perks …. coffee .. alot of it on tap 🙂

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070305 um 1114 Uhr #7403

@necromancerza wrote:

Welcome to VTK.
Desk jobs have perks …. coffee .. alot of it on tap 🙂

true but than again i didnt need to be behind a desk to have lots of coffee cause i was
a member of an artillery unit and well coffee runs in the veins of a soldier.

[maestro]

maestro on 20070305 um 1218 Uhr #7404

Coffee and nicotine, which installs the work prevention forcefield around you as noone gives a smoking soldier an order as long as nonsmokers stand around 😀

Welcome aboard fellow arty mate!

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070306 um 1222 Uhr #7405

@maestro wrote:

Coffee and nicotine, which installs the work prevention forcefield around you as noone gives a smoking soldier an order as long as nonsmokers stand around 😀

Welcome aboard fellow arty mate!

maestro you serve in an arty unit?
i was in a field unit using C3 105mm howitzers

[maestro]

maestro on 20070306 um 1916 Uhr #7406

@LucidApathy wrote:

maestro you serve in an arty unit?
i was in a field unit using C3 105mm howitzers

Served.
Batallion’s fire control post unit in the glorious German Bundeswehr.
We had the grand ol’ M-109 but they switched to Panzerhaubitze 2000 in the meantime.

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070307 um 0104 Uhr #7407

@maestro wrote:

@LucidApathy wrote:

maestro you serve in an arty unit?
i was in a field unit using C3 105mm howitzers

Served.
Batallion’s fire control post unit in the glorious German Bundeswehr.
We had the grand ol’ M-109 but they switched to Panzerhaubitze 2000 in the meantime.

*salutes*
i wish i had served in 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery cause than i would have been
on the M-109 but i had to settle for a field Regiment with towed howitzers, until i got in a
car accident and messed up my back

[maestro]

maestro on 20070307 um 0216 Uhr #7408

*salutes back, but probably should have saluted first, anyway*

Didn’t matter much for me, for some reason few got the sweet irony that the only thing not armoured out there was the mobile hq 🙁

In the first two hours of the only excercise i took part in 2 separate main battle tanks stopped to ask a pretty large bush (us) for the way and the battery commanders parked their jeeps (pennants attached) on the other side of the few trees that disguised us from the large field with the “enemy” on the other end.
Armoured howitzers somehow make no sense if the fire control post drags all the enemy fire upon itself, anyway.

[robc666]

robc666 on 20070307 um 0933 Uhr #7409

Howdy

[withdrawalfx]

withdrawalfx on 20070309 um 0636 Uhr #7410

welcome to VTK.

if you’ve got any cool anekdotes involving altillery, plz share. I love cool stories with massive guns involved 😈

[robc666]

robc666 on 20070310 um 0246 Uhr #7411

it’s a small world, i served in the Black Watch until i broke my leg.
Ain’t army life the best?

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070310 um 1108 Uhr #7412

@Robc666 wrote:

it’s a small world, i served in the Black Watch until i broke my leg.
Ain’t army life the best?

no other life like it.
Black Watch that is a highland unit isn’t it?
i started my military career as a member of the British Columbia Dragoons which is a armoured recci regiment.than transfered to the artillery

[robc666]

robc666 on 20070311 um 0923 Uhr #7413

yeah, they are scotish.
The day after i passed out i found out my father was dying of cancer, so they gave me a choice of two divisions near where i lived.
I could either go into the paras, or black watch…not really a choice, i’ve no desire to leap out of a perfectly good aircraft.
How long did you serve?

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070311 um 1405 Uhr #7414

2 years as an armoured crewman and 2 years as a gunner
in 5(BC) Royal Canadian Artillery.

[robc666]

robc666 on 20070320 um 0226 Uhr #7415

did you see much action?

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070320 um 1211 Uhr #7416

just missed out on a tour in afghanistan that would have been
feb 2006 till aug 2006 when we moved our forces from
kaboul to kandahar.

you see any action??

[robc666]

robc666 on 20070321 um 0219 Uhr #7417

Some during the first gulf war, that how i messed up my leg. A chunk of RPG shrapnel tore a chunk of muscle out the back of my leg and shattered the bone.
It could have been a hell of a lot worse, the day after i came home a freind of mine blew his left leg clean off when he stood on a mine.
Combat isnt all its cracked up to be, trust me, never regret missing out.

[lucidapathy]

lucidapathy on 20070321 um 0240 Uhr #7418

i lost a friend to an IED in kandahar province on
april 22 2006.
i wanted to be part of the PRT