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Sorry artist,
The last post was meant as purely as cynical humour.
As befiting the general thread.
No offence, please read this post as a juvinile joke!

P.S. Im not a friend of WAB in any way shape or form let alone an opposite number!

I hate to bring this thread into a serious light but I just saw an interested fact on the discovery channel, it said that during ww2 I think only 20% of soldiers actually fired there weapon at all, the others just froze. Anyway I was just wondering if you recon this is still the case, what with new training techniques and the use of man shaped targets do you think these make a difference?

It's strange but I feel like I'm the odd one out on this thread being serious and all, I'm confused

Aldo

Sh*t happens so fast. You dont know whether to wind your ar*e of scratch your watch.

I am not joking or taking the P*ss out of your last mate. It is just a Whirlwind of action. And when it has calmed down your first thought is "I'm alive!"

Artist

And when it has calmed down your first thought is "I'm alive!"

that and "why's my ar*e an hour fast?" lol

I get your point, I get like that just playing on the PC I can certainly see what you mean. I suppose the training takes over, pity it didn't work in my GCSEs maybe then I'd be able to get a proper job and I wouldn't have to join these poxy marines :grumble: hehe just kidding all... I did great in my exams

artist this is prob not the most pc of questions, but if you will forgive me for asking, did you see any action, and if you did, how do you know before you joined if you were the sorta bloke wether you would freeze or be a benifit to the section and do what is required - its something that has been playing on my mind since ive started applying. I hope i dont get the piss taken too much, its just something that ive been thinking about recently. I mean - i PRETTY/SURE i would do the job, but, how can anyone REALLY know what they would do when the metal meets the meat ?? If you know what i mean ?

will everyone just calm down. fod god's sake i'm just f@#k with you all. I am a mature person. To change the subject, i am sure i could kill if i had to for the team. Stop calling be a nob or twat, or rather u can keep callin WAB a twat but i am not WAB, WAB is one of my many personalities.

WAB be honest now, how old are you?

I am a serving royal marine....... i be u didn't realise that did ya haha

Your serving Royal Marines ??

Must be a cook or something

Mr Mojo Risin
To answer your question.
Its is the training that will carry you thru.
Think of how a fireman or ambulance person deals with his or her first death.
The first time will be hard,but the training takes over when you get contact theres so much going on everything just comes natural.
Its only later when you realise what has gone on that it hits you.
Sometimes the only way to deal with it is to take the piss and talk shite,anything to get your mind off things.
Death is not funny,but what are you supposed to do,cry and moan.
I have had dealings with death and carnage.
Its not a boast ,its fact.
Pulling a dead 17 year old out of a wagon is a sad thing,you think what a waste.
Having to sit with him all night is even worse.
You know how i dealt with that.
I wanted him to do my radio stag,thats right i wanted to sit him in my det and have him do a shift.
Well thats what i said as a joke.
Sick eh,but thats how i dealt with it.
You train and train untill everything becomes automatic.
It takes a long time in a section to know what your oppos thinking.
But there comes a point that when on patrol you dont speak a word you just know where people are and what they are thinking.

Cheers Scaly - thats cleared things up for me

The 20% that fired their weapon were mostly career guys not civvies joining because of the war probably.

Jordiman wrote:The 20% that fired their weapon were mostly career guys not civvies joining because of the war probably.

Probably, makes me glad we have an all proffesional military now.

WAB, seriously how old are you? we really want to know.

personally i dont know how i would react but i have played a game with air rifles where we hunted each other down in a wood and shot each other and one of my mates shot me in my shoulder and i shot another lad in the back, at first it was hard to pull the trigger as you know its a living person and you know him personally, but after i did it once i didnt think twice about it again...i thought it was fun

yes i might be insane...