| From: | caelric@****.com caelric@****.com |
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| Subject: | Ruthenium (Re: Questions of great importance) |
| Date: | Thu, 02 Sep 1999 19:41:43 -0700 |
>
>Thoughts, army-type-dudes? Would a spec ops team who's going in to get
>someone out, not start a war, wear heavy-ish armour?
>
Well, being a Marine type dude, whose worked with and on spec ops teams,
although not the shoot em up kind, I can answer some questions...First,
body armor is great! It might be hot, heavy, and cause you to get much
more tired than otherwise, but all that agony pays off when a round smacks
you in the cest and you walk awy with a bruise instead of a hole in the
chest. And, body armor is easily made to be quiet. It's not like chain
mail where you get a -25% to your move silent..uh wrong game, but you
understand what I am saying. Sure, I mean if you have 100 lbs of body
armor on, well, then you deserve to get caught, but any decent suit of
bullet stopping body armor, especcially the kind aa spec ops team would
have is not going to cause any stealth problem. The might run the 440 a
second slower, but the kind of people we are talking about, thats not a big
deal.
Just remeber, that flak jacket might stop some serious flak, so it is worth
it, in my opinion. I had a Gunny Sergeant who wore his flak jacket out in
29 Palms (middle of California desert) during the heat of the summer on a
training exercise. I asked him why, when it was SO DAMN HOT! He said he'd
be wearing it whenever combat rolled around, no matter the temp, so why not
train right. So, most people who know what they are doing (which includes
special forces types) would be weaing some type of body armor.
Just my thoughts
Dave
PS No, I have never busted into a room and shot up all kinds of
terrorists, so take my opinion with some salt.
