This may be O.T but i was just wondering...

[niklas627]

Did my duty in the Swedish armoured forces in 1993/94 as a commanding officer over ATGM-team.

The company I where in was a test company, which was testing vehicles like Leo-2A4/A5 (strv-121/122), Strf-90, T-80U, M1A1 and Leclerc.

Did get also a short education on the Swedish centurion tank (104) and the famous "S" tank (Strv-103).

cheers/
niklas

[dsvet91]

4 years in the U.S Army Infantry, Charlie Co. 3/15 Inf. 24th Inf. Div. (M). Started out as a dismount on the M2 Bradley, then went to the driver position and finally to gunner. Served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

[Mustang]

I'm surprised that soo many of you are in the combat arms considering 50% of the people in the army do rear-area stuff. Or maybe it's just because WinSPMBT dosen't appeal to logisitics managers and tank maintenance people.

Very interesting that you were in a test company, Niklas.

[pdoktar]

My duty was 12 months in the finnish army Karelian Brigade 2000-2001, Jaeger squad leader, nowadays Sergeant First Class, Platoon 2nd in command. As grunt as it gets.
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[OGBerger]

Hey Mustang who are you to judge the trusty maintenance guys that keep the AFVs up runing and guning , at least I'm appealed by this game.

Served as conscript in Bundeswehr 4th Maintenance-Btl for 12 months. Mostly Staff work, you know shuffling around papers and hours of doom at a photocopy machine. You really learn to hate these things after having to do 6 copys of a 150 page manual one page at a time.

Regardless of this staff stuff managed to get two times into winter/alpine-skiing course, some rangetime and some opfor duty for bootcamp, nice change to the boredom.

[Mustang]

How was the German Army? I heard after 1945 it was made more beaurucratic along US Army lines and lost a lot of its old Prussian and WWII skill. Is this true?

[grasovka]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xUHI6w87y3c

see the German Army in action :>