Does Everyone get a Pistol in the Army ?

I was never in the army, how does this work ?
Does everyone get a rifle and a pistol that will be fighting ? or only important people ?
Who gets armed, only with a pistol and shafted out of a proper rifle ?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Big bro army has enough funds to arm every soldier with a handgun unlike some other branches

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is it just extra weight though ?
      Who has shot anyone with a pistol in modern times since WW2 ?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bro have you ever heard of Detroit, or Chicago?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Is it just extra weight though ?

        If I was going into war Id rather have extra nades and drop the pistol and its mags. Most of the time you will have a main battle rifle and plenty of mags for it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ankle holster cc pistole might come in handy

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That shit is just going to get uncomfortable when you're on patrol, carrying your full kit. We live in the age of combined arms warfare. You're going to be killed by a drone or mortar fire before you waste your 210 rounds and switch to your sidearm, which is less accurate and less likely to penetrate enemy armor. Let's not even get started on the potential logistical issue you might encounter getting anything but 9mm, and maybe .45 ACP, while you're on mission, in active warzone, when resupplying mostly unused sidearm rounds is the least of your commander's concern.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That dudes scared for his life and the pistol in his hand is his way of coping.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We do not "arm every Soldier with a handgun", moron. That would be completely pointless. Team Leaders, Squad Leaders, Platoon Leaders/PSGs, and 240 gunners get them in a line platoon.

      Is it just extra weight though ?
      Who has shot anyone with a pistol in modern times since WW2 ?

      My first squad leader killed some Iraqis with an M9.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also sometimes SAW gunners as well, depending on some stuff.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Both of those post are mine.
        Your squad leader must have been extremely based to kill them with an M9.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He was a SAW gunner in Fallujah. He was in Bellavia's squad, pretty based guy.

          I was never in the military either and I have a question relating to handguns as well. If I have a NATO caliber handgun (9mm), can I make it part of my kit?? I know guys used to do that in WW2 and sometimes Vietnam, so I am not sure if it's the same in the modern U.S military.

          If you're in the US military, you can request permission from your commander to bring a sidearm on a deployment. 99.9% of the time, it will be denied. I personally have never heard of someone managing to bring it overseas, and IIRC it's a massive ass pain to bring it home.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          frick now I want diabetes

          I was never in the military either and I have a question relating to handguns as well. If I have a NATO caliber handgun (9mm), can I make it part of my kit?? I know guys used to do that in WW2 and sometimes Vietnam, so I am not sure if it's the same in the modern U.S military.

          not unless you're a cool as frick guy operating away from uncool authority and have other cool guys in your navy seal network smuggle or ship you disassembled things in amongst other things that you can then defrick and use for cool stuff, maybe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is it just extra weight though ?
      Who has shot anyone with a pistol in modern times since WW2 ?

      We do not "arm every Soldier with a handgun", moron. That would be completely pointless. Team Leaders, Squad Leaders, Platoon Leaders/PSGs, and 240 gunners get them in a line platoon.
      [...]
      My first squad leader killed some Iraqis with an M9.

      It was common for a lot of units working with Afghans to arm every soldier with a pistol so that they could always have a weapon to hand in case of green-on-blue incidents when they were in base areas. The majority of GOB attacks came when soldiers took their body armour off, relaxed and were doing administration tasks like cleaning weapons.
      Arming everyone in the squad with pistols in addition to their rifles did happen, it was kind of a GWOT thing and it doesn't have a lot of utility outside of those specific circumstances, although it's why you often see it on GWOT squad tables.
      In WW2 officers would often opt to only carry a pistol because of the idea they're meant to hang back from actual fighting and direct men rather than getting stuck in themselves. Normally they could choose to take a rifle or SMG out of their establishment as well, and many did choose to do that especially in combat units at the company and platoon level.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >In WW2 officers would often opt to only carry a pistol because of the idea they're meant to hang back from actual fighting and direct men rather than getting stuck in themselves. Normally they could choose to take a rifle or SMG out of their establishment as well, and many did choose to do that especially in combat units at the company and platoon level.
        This practice lasted until the gwot. I remember a book by an officer involved in the hunt for Saddam having to grab a spare M4 because he was only issued an M9 and saying that having been in a firefight with a pistol he never wanted to do so again.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >green-on-blue incidents
        You mean like an allied army shooting at you because they though you were the enemy or like Chad from missouri getting into a fistfight because Jean Claude from Bordeaux stole the last choco cookie from chow hall?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          In Afghanistan, it's more like Taliban soldiers getting into the ANA and shooting up the base after bypassing security

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. There are 3 kinds of people who have pistols: tiny groups of special forces raiding tiny groups of rebels in mud huts, tank drivers, and officers doing paperwork.

    Anyone expected to see significant combat in a significant size unit doesn't use a pistol. Somebody else will be there to cover you if your gun jams and an extra rifle mag is more useful.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was never in the military either and I have a question relating to handguns as well. If I have a NATO caliber handgun (9mm), can I make it part of my kit?? I know guys used to do that in WW2 and sometimes Vietnam, so I am not sure if it's the same in the modern U.S military.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No. I can't tell you how many fricking times I heard someone ask if they can use their own weapon for qualification. The point is using a basic b***h fricking gun and being proficient with sighting and using a stock weapon. It's not about how good you are with a weapon you know, it's using generic shit, doing the grunt work to sight it in (you get 2 shots in the exact same place and a flyer so you can't tell which is which because you shot twice in the same spot the exact same time through paper, and you got a group of them shifting every time they tell you to shift your sight) Think of it like if someone asked you to a competition where you will shoot a stock glock, or a stock swsdve, or a gun that has adjustable sights just a stock generic gun that's cheap as frick. like a .22lr rifle ruger or something. Applying fundamentals to do that is suppose to be half the equation. If you shot like shit you probably shot like shit, unless your unit really does have guns that can't hit a barn which I've seen before. No excuses like trigger pull is weird or something. If you're right handed and you sight in a gun right handed, another right handed person should be able to pick up the gun and do it the same way.

      If I was tasked with sniping and had a long gun with a scope I would want a secondary weapon, something small is best so a pistol or maybe SMG if available.

      Frick that I'm doing anything and everything to avoid being the fricker carrying a fricking SAW unless someone gets me a damn disposable bazooka to hump around when I haven't got that.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. Changing to your secondary is quicker than reloading.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. It mostly depends on the unit. Officers will take them all first because they don't want to hear someone yell drop with it if they set it down to talk with people. Then SNCO's get dibs and depending on their job or what's left NCO's. Really it comes down to your specific unit and SOP's but mostly shit rolls down hill.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If I was tasked with sniping and had a long gun with a scope I would want a secondary weapon, something small is best so a pistol or maybe SMG if available.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Jesus are we on the fricking schoolbus in 2009?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dude I’d have a mp5 with a silencer and red dot sight

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You have to be 18 to post here

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hi, Government Slave here.

    An entire tank crew will be issued a sidearm, along with two rifles. Thanks.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hey that's me in the pic, one of the corn fed white boys. guess who

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the mouthbreather on the left

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The midget?

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