The soldier of the future
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April 16th, 2012 at 11:10 am
We didn’t know that soldier of the future would have an inferior rifle and twice as much other crap to carry.
April 16th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Lets see: new helmet, check. Zoidberg mask, check. Fully cantilevered night-vision powered by old VW ignition coil, check!
April 16th, 2012 at 11:40 am
I prefer Robert Heinlein’s SOTF vision from 1959.
Starship Troopers.
The book, not that Hollywood horseshit.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
With that get-up, you’ll be ready to take on Red Chinese as they invade Alaska, right after the good Ol’ US of A annexes Canada.
Also, super mutants won’t stand a chance.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
In 1990, we were gearing up for the First Gulf War. Our Colonel decided that we needed a HQ Company run right down a main street – with our gas masks on. It was fun watching people freak out.
April 16th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
And they were such good shots, they only needed to carry one magazine, too!
April 16th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
At about the same time, Gen. Quesada (in forced retirement) was writing articles in the same medium on how difficult it was for conventional forces to even find their own way through the jungles of Panama. Then, as now, the country did not have a unitary vision of what our main threats were.
What is with the patch on the M-14 stock? Is it some rudimentary lightened, plasticy, skeletonized thing, or is that just a glued-on Chinese phrase-book?
April 17th, 2012 at 1:35 am
They forgot the “flying jeep”, a ducted fan contraption, we’d call it a hovercraft today.