After an obviously long, and hard, 7 weeks of 'basic training' for the Australian army, the forum resident korbs has written his story.

Weapons Training. “SWEET” I thought to myself as the corporal unlocked the armory and handed us out our weapons again. After our first lesson, believe me, I was not thinking “SWEET” anymore. Before you even think about loading ammunition into your weapon, you have to run through 2 weeks of seemingly endless safety drills. Don’t get me wrong, they are absolutely vital and must be done, but they get so boring, just going over the same stuff over and over again. Still, you do feel slightly more badass holding a rifle than you do in the classroom, on the verge of sleep, being taught the intricacies of “why bullets kill you”. The worst part about weapons handling is having to clean the bastards afterwards. Your rifle had to be SPOTLESS. Every shot fired from it equates to about 2 minutes in cleaning time. On some range days you’re churning as many as 90 rounds through the sucker, so it’s not all fun and games.

Grab the whole thing from here, or read his thread over here.

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i have a better idea...

ARMY.AUSGAMERS.COM!!!

i can make the site and we can all read about the adventures of us QGL soldiers :)

this sure was newsworthy

shutup gayould

Excellent piece of writing.

I pay it.

I've been considering the Reserves big time for next year when I finally get out of school. Is it the same/similar to this sort of training?
I hear that you go to the Kapooka mentioned in the article, so I figure it's the same training thingy?
I reckon it sounds brillant, though I'll probably be one of the poor bastards screwing up in front of the corporals all the time =P
Article was well written korbs, good stuff!

props to korbs for the heads up

Exocet - i keep laughing when i hear that stoopid sound but its getting annoying :P

especially when ive got music pretty loud :P

congrats to korbz...brilliantly written..are you goin to join the SAS???: P :P :P :P :P

join the sas so u can write some stories for us..

im pretty sure its all confidential hey..

what a read.. make a movie out of it. (ok, maybe not quite)

awww trog! But the sound is COOL!

Dammit, I always check a thread AFTER the good stuff gets nuked....

Farseeker: They have made a movie out of it. It's called "Full Metal Jacket" :)

Cam - thats exacly what you go through, the same 7 weeks. I talked to Korbz on icq, and he is in the reserves. Im guessing if you went full time it would be the same.

how about navy.ausgamers.com

then all the nautical QGLers can discuss their favourite methods of spanking a naked man

that was an amazing read.. good work mate.

awsome korbs, thats the BEST thing iv ever read on these forums, a very motivating story. :)

congrats to korbz...brilliantly written..are you goin to join the SAS???: P :P :P :P :P

I remember saying something on irc to strex that he should go for SAS and he was like "OMFG no way", on further inquiry, he said you have to be pretty f***ed up and pschyo to get in SAS.

Think, these guys at boot camp, Corprals screaming at you, imagine what a SAS soldier would be like :|

the whole thing sounds like some generic bs dribble they feed to us civvies to make it sound like being in the army is tough.. :P

im on to you's

thats mad as ay. i wos thinking about going into all that s***.. but im too lazy.. somthing like that :P

my sig lies :P

to think i have to wait till july to have that kinda fun :(

Hey all i am REALLY sorry for the revive. But i thought it would be easier than starting a new thread.
Does anyone still have the link to the story etc? A friend is goin into the army and i thought he might be interested! The thread seems to be gone, and the link to the doc is n/a as well :(

edit: well ummm maybe its just my computer....links dont work for me :S

last edited by Fireblood at 16:42:33 12/Jan/04

Edit2: Thanks anyway i guess :P

last edited by Fireblood at 17:06:39 12/Jan/04

edit3: Maxe for the win! http://maxe.ausgamers.com/bt.htm

last edited by Fireblood at 17:08:38 12/Jan/04

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