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DragonElite4765 karma

Hi there! SWAT is a career field I'm interested in. I recently left the military. Has any ofn your training help you or hindered you from being a SWAT member? He easy was your transition into?

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  1. lol All the time. Line platoons(crunchies dismounted and walking everywhere) are always the first to talk shit. "Man you damn 52's got it nice driving around in your vics everywhere" or "03 Motor T". Then you get called one of the most useless MOSs in today's Corps seeing as we haven't faught too many tanks recently. But every single Combined Arms excercise or training event that involves TOWs or Javelins you always see those motherfuckers pull out their phones and record our missle shots. All I'll say is that I've never seen full bird colonels and generals comeout to watch line platoons do fire and maneuver. (They usually show up for missle shots)

DragonElite475 karma

Another USMC Javelin/TOW Gunner here. Both Weapons act NOTHING like they do in BF4. The Javelin is a fire and forget weapon. Meaning once you have a achieved a lock and pull the fire trigger yoy gtfo of dodge. Where as in BF4 you must maintain a lock the entire time. The TOW IRL has far more capabilities than its BF4 version. FLIR/Ranger finding/rtc TLDR; No, neither weapons are similar to BF4.

DragonElite472 karma

I would think metal scavengers would eventually clear a lot of it up. TOWs have roughly 4000+ meters of copper wire depending on the variants of the missile. I'd imagine that would be worth something? From my experiences in countries in the middle east and Africa we hardly had to clean up any spent brass because the locals were right behind us to pick it up to sell it. The wires were incredibly thin but deceivingly tough. I wouldn't go as far as decapitation but if you were collecting it after a shot and weren't careful you definitely could get some serious and deep lacerations.