During parades, soldiers put of the cap in certain moments, for example going below the flag or singing a song for the fallen ones. The idea is doing it energically in one movement, hence no strapping under the chin. Sure there is another explanacion, but that's what they say.
I’ve trained with them before during an exercise in Sicily, they have really high morale compared to everyone else for the most part, but they performed pretty average during STX lanes. Funniest part was that one of them carried a Franco portrait in their IFV
If only they adopted a G36 clone or visually similar gun to the G36 like the FX05 in Mexico. Then you'd maintain the tradition of having similar evolutions of gun made simultaneously with Germany by associated or the same engineers.
I have used both the Cetme L and G36. Cetme L was brilliant on paper, in fact, the first hundreds manufactured still work properly up today, but as happened with the ameli LMG and the Sniper version of the m43, the latter productions were manufactured with shittier materials.
The cetme L is a good sporting rifle and has good ergonomics for what it is, but is an annoying military weapon prone to failures and maintenance is a fucking pain in the arse.
The G36 is decent: reliable, easy to maintain, accurate for an mass-produced assault rifle...it was a surprise. It has a couple of quirks, but man, that jerry boy never failed me.
https://i.imgur.com/HDtlGXK.jpg
I miss it
Lol, that was my unit. The captain was...an interesting person, a "captain America"...
Man, I have singed that song like a hundred times, maybe more than "A la derecha va el Tercio". There was another one, the lyric was something like "...anguila que fuma debajo del mar..." it was something ridiculous and also funny.
I wish I could have made service with one, but I only shooted the mg42 and the m2 as machine gunner. Saw two ameli, one in a museum, the other taking dust in an armory. Everybody wanted to exhange their mg42 or MG4 because the ameli's weigh is the half.
I usually jerk off exclusively to commie kit but that stuff is aesthetic as hell
2 weeks ago
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Some of these photos are for advertisement purpose. Still cool tho. >t. I did the same, but with woodland camo instead of olive drab. TOAs (M113) from behind are probably even the same we used.
2 weeks ago
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Woodland + Stahlhelm is very cool
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https://i.imgur.com/JgxjCSo.jpg
Woodland + Stahlhelm is very cool
Chile still uses stahlhelms. They use them for ceremonial duties and actually developed a composite version in the 90s but they're only used in reserve units because army officers complained their shape makes them hard to use prone.
2 weeks ago
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>shape makes them hard to use prone
It also makes it incredibly easy to break your neck from behind. British commandos were taught to push that massive neck flap forward, while pulling the head back with the other hand.
2 weeks ago
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Is it just a mini mg42?
2 weeks ago
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Is more like a Cetme-L on steroids (it uses a rolling-block mechanism), but yes, the cannon and other parts were inspired by the mg42.
2 weeks ago
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Lmao, forget about rolling-block, I meant roller-delayed blowback.
I love digging holes, especially on beaches. Ever since I was like 5. One time I dog a vietcong tunnel from the backyard, under the house and came out by the driveway.
They have a genetic need to claim living space. Whether it's Prussian militarism or modern passive-aggression, they must slowly push others aside to claim more space.
We don't, you're just more aware of police abuse. Because a Spaniards' no1 right and hobby is bitching about how poorly things are run.
No seriously try to look up examples of Police Abuse recorded for each EU country. For Spain you'll find 3, all of which were from 2012, and none of which had lethal consequences.
Meanwhile France and Germany have much more violent encounters every other year and nobody bats an eye. Hell this very year Macron sent his riot brutes to beat the shit out of people multiple times, and they exercised way, way less restrain than anything you'd see in Spain, and you won't find anyone claiming that was wrong.
Take it from a left wing Spaniard who has been on the receiving end of a police charge during the period of peak instability that was Rajoi's tenure. After seeing how shit is run outside of Spain, I have noticed one key trend:
Everyone is 100 times more aware of the reported issues in Spain than the actual issues in their own countries. Sure, Spain is far from perfect, by a very long margin. But most of what we're criticized for by foreigners is shit that happens far worse in their countries. Shit, just look at the Jan 6th protests, multiple people were shot at with actual guns there. You won't see that shit here, but the "Land of the Free" sure will.
And I have come to realize this is because us Spaniards are indeed hypersensitive and mouthy as fuck. We will bitch about every minute issue we have, and I for one see this as a positive. You can't fix shit if you don't admit it's wrong and our police needs reform in many aspects. But my god if our police did even half the shit I've seen other EU police forces do, we'd have started talking about having a boogaloo! It seems your average Spaniard doesn't realize grass ain't greener on the other side, and your average foreigner comes out thinking if we bitch this much we must have some real issues. We don't, we just like bitching a lot.
Barcelona I have no clue as I've never been to Catalonia, but from what I heard rule 1 is protect your pockets. Lots of romanian gypsies there. And other criminals. But really mostly romanian gypsies.
As for Cadiz. It depends on what you like and how far you're willing to go I guess. It has a ton of stuff. The Pueblos Blancos are a favourite of mine but that's if you like historic stuff and walks through rural areas. The beach is pretty good, do beware the tides, as in the fact there is one unlike in the med. Quick tip, if you put your stuff on wet sand, well, it got wet because the sealine reaches that point, and it will do it again in a few hours, so don't leave it there if you won't be close to move.
Also Cadiz capital has a LOT of historic stuff that's just kino. Sadly not all is open to the public (the civil war and explosion de las minas did a number on some of them so they need heavy repairs, plus the phoenician dig of casa del cura is just in need of repairs due to shitty mayors) but, say, la cueva del pajaro azul, the cathedrals (both), the beaterio, puerta tierra, santa catalina, it has a lot of good places to go. Really if you wanna go visit all churches the whole damn province has a lot of good places, and a good amount of castles too. Plus if you call beforehand Navantia has a nice tour of the old docks. There's a lot of tours in general if you wanna learn a lot of fun history.
On the nature side Doñana is also nearby (most of it is in Huelva but it reaches Cadiz Province) plus the Serranía has a ton of nature trails so that's a must if you like trees. Oh and I HAVE to recommend the catas. Wine tasting. There's a LOT of Bodegas (that's winemaker in Spain) which offer some really great tasting sessions where they also give a little tour and show how it is made and the history and stuff. Best way to get hammered, ever. And wait for pt 2 because I ran out of characters.
2 weeks ago
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>Lots of romanian gypsies there. And other criminals.
no te olvides de los subhumanos marroquies
2 weeks ago
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True in general but Romanians and Moroccans usually hate each other. From what I heard Moroccans congregate a lot on northern catalonia, but Barcelona is Romanian territory. Which may actually be for the better. Romanian gypsies are thiefs, Moroccans are actually dangerous.
2 weeks ago
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Catalonia is such a shithole
2 weeks ago
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He has to avoid El Raval, even La mina is less problematic, lots of moros there stealing and shanking. Of course it doesn't reach usa city levels of bad be a long shot, but if he will be shanked, its there.
2 weeks ago
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Here we see someone exemplifying what
We don't, you're just more aware of police abuse. Because a Spaniards' no1 right and hobby is bitching about how poorly things are run.
No seriously try to look up examples of Police Abuse recorded for each EU country. For Spain you'll find 3, all of which were from 2012, and none of which had lethal consequences.
Meanwhile France and Germany have much more violent encounters every other year and nobody bats an eye. Hell this very year Macron sent his riot brutes to beat the shit out of people multiple times, and they exercised way, way less restrain than anything you'd see in Spain, and you won't find anyone claiming that was wrong.
Take it from a left wing Spaniard who has been on the receiving end of a police charge during the period of peak instability that was Rajoi's tenure. After seeing how shit is run outside of Spain, I have noticed one key trend:
Everyone is 100 times more aware of the reported issues in Spain than the actual issues in their own countries. Sure, Spain is far from perfect, by a very long margin. But most of what we're criticized for by foreigners is shit that happens far worse in their countries. Shit, just look at the Jan 6th protests, multiple people were shot at with actual guns there. You won't see that shit here, but the "Land of the Free" sure will.
And I have come to realize this is because us Spaniards are indeed hypersensitive and mouthy as fuck. We will bitch about every minute issue we have, and I for one see this as a positive. You can't fix shit if you don't admit it's wrong and our police needs reform in many aspects. But my god if our police did even half the shit I've seen other EU police forces do, we'd have started talking about having a boogaloo! It seems your average Spaniard doesn't realize grass ain't greener on the other side, and your average foreigner comes out thinking if we bitch this much we must have some real issues. We don't, we just like bitching a lot.
mentioned of Spaniards being maybe too vociferous if compared with the outside.
Here's the crime stats for europe: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings_current.jsp?region=150
As you can see, Spain looks pretty damn safe. Indeed it is near the bottom of EU crime stats every year consistently. Even during the 2012 debacle times it was pretty damn safe. And by USA levels it might as well have no crime.
Still we see Barcelona ranks the 2nd highest spanish city after Bilbao temporarily outranked it due to a recent wave. If you look at prior years you will see indeed Barcelona regularly is on the top 2 while Bilbao has peaks and Madrid is on 2nd or 3rd place usually, sometimes getting into 4th if Seville decides to take 3rd. Either way as the linked map from 2021 shows, yeah, this is why Spaniards are extremely mad about Catalonia's horrendous (by their metric) crime statistics and the moors than bring them.
And more power to them! You should fight to be as safe as possible. But you put Catalonia's "horrendous" 50 point crime stats next to UK's average on the 60s to 70s... And suddently it doesn't look that bad. And you compare it to USA and might get a hearty chuckle at the idea it's anything to worry about.
Either way, lessons to learn. Catalonia is shit by Spanish standards. But Spanish standards are damn high. So don't take it too seriously when you see Spaniards at each other throats. That's just part of their culture.
2 weeks ago
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Giving Catalonia autonomy was the biggest mistake, decentralization was a terrible idea, just so they can larp with their invented language 200 years ago
2 weeks ago
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As somebody from Barcelona, note that the "high" crime rates are actually a thing only in touristic areas like Barcelona or Girona, which also have an inmigration problem.
Once you get out of the tourist traps and the city centers, you can pretty much walk alone at any time of the night without fear in almost all neighbourhoods (except gypsy ones, of course). In fact, Barcelona was much more gritty and actually violent decades ago. Until the 80-90s street fights were common at night between small teenager gangs or skinheads vs. metalheads, which are unheard of today.
The city became disneyfied for tourists since the 1992 olympic games, and areas that were third world shitholes in the 80s are gentrified with very high standards of living and excellent services.
All the current culture wars propaganda about "15min cities" are hilarious to me when most of Barcelona is already pretty much like that since forever, and people do whatever the fuck they want, getting out of the city on weekends out of boredom to see other places and break the monotony.
pt 2:
On the restaurant side you got Aponiente if you want the POSHEST michelin star stuff, plus I loved the degustation menu from Tempus Fugit, if you wanna get hammered on really expensive wine as for it to be with "maridaje" which means 1 glass of wine per dish. Oh and as with the rest of Spain they make Rutas de la Tapa if you wanna just get cheap appetizers and beers with friends.
I forgot to mention when it comes to beaches I was referencing the Playa la Victoria, not La Caleta, La Caleta is fine if you wanna see the people and all that but it's certainly not the same. Also, if you like sea stuff, the club nautico El Cano has nice courses and you can find a lot of boats on Sancti Petri, which can also take you to an old fort that's fun to explore.
If you know enough spanish there's also the Carnaval Chico, basically the groups that celebrate Carnaval all year long, they're fun for a bit but if you don't know spanish or don't know enough about spanish culture to get the references it won't be for you. And of course there's all the military stuff! Cadiz is where you'll find most historic stuff about the Spanish Navy, the two were tied since pretty much forever until the attempts to centralize by first the Bourbons and later Franco, and its only till the second that it fell out of relevance, though even then with Navantia's presence there it's questionable wether or not it truly is all that irrelevant. Either way, lots of museums, you can even see their mausoleum which is a great place to go for a tour, and the observatory is also pretty cool to see.
Oh and do try to avoid Campo de Gibraltar right now, the region around Gibraltar, on the eastern side of the province. There's been a spike in criminality and yet another british petrol ship polluted the area, which combined with Gibraltar's messy Brexit negotiations is causing instability. Not a good place to visit them. Specially if you don't know Spanish.
1-DON'T JUMP OFF A BALCONY. You'd think that should go without saying, but... Apparently not!
2-There's this plaza called Plaza de las Flores, where you see the statue of Columela. That's Gypsy Central, great tourist spot, good food, great views, lots of tourists and that's precisely why pickpockets love it. So when in there be aware. Barcelona may have the highest pickpocket rate in Spain by far, but during tourist season every city has at least 1 plaza like that, Cadiz got the 1.
3-To get to San Sebastian there's this beautiful bridge over the sea, and during high tide, specially when its dark, you may think of taking a bath there. DO NOT. Every fucking year we have at least 1 brit or frenchman that jumps in. THAT IS A REEF. WHEN LOW TIDE COMES IN IT IS UNCOVERED AND EVERYTHING, THERE'S LIKE 20CM OF WATER THERE TOPS, YOU WILL DIE.
I swear I personally stopped 1 idiot myself, hell last year the mayor just decided to change the old sign for a bright yellow one, and yet 1 frenchman still jumped. Look if you jump you're not taking a risk, ok, it's not like on those places where you can jump but there's some rocks here and there making it dangerous THE PLACE IS FUCKING FLAT IT IS GUARANTEED YOU WILL HIT THE REEF. We don't need more dunces splitting their heads there, please.
Most of them join the army because there are no other jobs. I would asume thqt makes a difference in performance. Like all those germans trying to quit when the ukranian war started.
>Most of them join the army because there are no other jobs
Not really true, most of the guys who entered the academy in 2017 did it because of the Catalans
its fine, yesterday I rekt the leading rust protection product at the 1st try while using wrong chemcals. That is fun tbh if I remember im crazy. Blocking PrepHole would kill me, whatever I do is related to labwork, gun oils, rust, chemistry or PrepHole so its pretty much my life when I exclude a nice anime before bedtime IMAO. Not a weeb but real movies and TV turned out woke which is enemy
2 weeks ago
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You have a ton of movies, shows and literature to pick from. Try also to do some outdoor activities, even if it's just walking around the city a bit.
It can do wonders.
I'm logging off. Remember to do that too! Nite nites
I think it has to do with art, we have sold the idea of the blue eyed blondie being supposed to be something non terrestrial, meanwhile the woman of dark hair and eyes is a creature of Mother Earth, a witch of fertility and carnal celebration.
>Monday
PT (calisthenics), then eat mud in full gear >Tuesday
PT (7-10 miles run and 30 push ups right after), then eat mud in full gear >Wednesday
PT (moar calisthenics, maybe bodylifting), then eat mud in full gear >Thursday
PT(running again 7-10 miles), then eat mud in full gear >Friday
Couple hours practising military parades, cleaning tons and tons of shit in the HQ, weapon maintenance, If we were lucky, vehicle maintenance(vehicle working = less mud to eat). If you did not fucked up anything, you could go to your home to spend the whole weekend before coming back to suffer for your country. >t. served in Light Infantry, Todo por la Patria
Yes, but are quite variable to explain. All of them ended in getting shitted and tired. Mainly urban combat (cleaning some houses and streets) or conventional combat where we would run some hills taking cover. The most annoying were those made in San Gregorio training field, 10 days or more sleeping in the mud no hot water, no electricity, no time for having a break, all the time doing exercises.
Once in a month at least some rucking between 15-20 miles at the mountains, those were cool ngl.
Estoy en la última fase de la Academia General Militar. Acabo de empezar la escuela de infantería. ojalá me vaya a Almogávares. Algún consejo para un alférez?
Trata bien a tus soldados, cabos y sargentos (especialmente a los cabos y sargentos). En algunas unidades sólo te pedirán que cumplas con los protocolos de saludo tratando a los subalternos, en otras se esperará que seas elitista y los trates como carne de cañón. Esto no es la mili de hace 25 años, aquí la gente se ha apuntado voluntariamente porque es o el único empleo fiable que han pillado o porque realmente quieren dar todo por su nación; en ambos casos quieren intentar mantener su puesto y van a esforzarse siempre que les des medios y conocimientos. Tratarlos de carnaza te va a dar mala imágen y menos facilidades. El resto es empollar (sobretodo radios y cartografía) y mantener buen físico(nada de drogas salvo que quieras quedar en ridículo tras la prueba de meada), como teniente de infantería te va a tocar chupar mucho campo.
>Todo por la Patria
please beat up the catalans more next time
t - Flemish seperatist that just hates those annoying catalan fucks
Ona, Grande y Libre!
Independentism in Catalonia is just a politic trick. There are people who really support independentism due how stupid is the central goverment, but the main catalonian politics just use it as a leverage tool for gain favors from central goverment and propaganda. Catalonia is too dependant from Spain and EU. There will be no tanks in Barcelona's Diagonal. Independance is a remote possibility, a State like Texas has more probabilities. >Ona, Grande, Libre
Kek, lo que tiene vivir a la sombra de una dictadura viejuna...
gracias por el consejo, a veces me gustaría ir a la ruta de la guardia civil pero creo que me gustará después de Toledo. > lo que tiene vivir a la sombra de una dictadura viejuna
Diría que el franquismo es mejor que el chiste que tenemos ahora
Nada te impide seguir opositando a GC por dentro del ejército, incluso te reservan plaza si tienes cinco años de servicio. Seguramente ya lo sepas, pero si no has hecho ejercicios en el campo de maniobra de Alijares, pilla repelente de insectos, uno con mínimo 20% Deet. Se acerca buen tiempo y con ello garrapatas a patadas...
>Todo por la Patria
please beat up the catalans more next time
t - Flemish seperatist that just hates those annoying catalan fucks
Ona, Grande y Libre!
Because their name is incomplete. Originally they were the AFRICA legion. Look at any european army in africa and you'll see they were certainly more open than average. Hell the Italians wore shorts and it wasn't uncommon to see germans just straight up shirtless, specially artillery operators.
But then the civil war happened and they went from the Africa Legion to THE Legion by winning. And the uniform just stuck for historical reasons.
the allies made it very clear that if they didn't pull back the Azul division they would consider the Spanish to be part of the axis.
Considering the allies bordered Spanish marroco, controlled the med and Spain was still in shambles after the civil war. They didn't fancy getting invaded and even for the germans having uninterupted access to Spanish resources was worth more than one under strenght division
Lmao. Leaving aside all the other autism concentrated in that article. La Legión doesn't deploy for Covid operations. That was the UME, whose job it is to deploy for emergencies like natural disasters, pandemics, etc. Hell, UME isn't even part of the land army they're classified on the 4th branch along the Royal Guard and musics, they don't even have the same commands outside of the very top (aka the king, nominally, and defense ministry.)
La Legión is a mostly ceremonial segment of the army. Sending them after Covid would be completely ridiculous.
No. UME got the spotlight, but most other units that weren't involved in deployments abroad or critical tasks were devoted overnight to cleaning, patrolling and checkpoints.
Are you REALLY surprised the japs thirst over a military uniform that gives them an excuse to have the characters wearing a massive neckline, and is Spanish to boot? Come on now. It's the japs. They're all a bunch of degenerates. Of course they make Legión doujins.
Hilarious, because Millán-Astray, the founder of the Spanish Legion, was a jap fan that loved the early Bushido stuff that reached europe, and mixed it with catholic dogma to create the credo of the Spanish Legion (basically a death cult)
He publised in 1941 a translation to spanish of Inazo Nitobe's Bushido: the Soul of Japan (1905), although it's said to be a ghost translation from the french version.
>massive casualties on communists
Are they really still fascist? I thought that was just a case of "everyone more right wing than me is fascist" from journos.
Are you REALLY surprised the japs thirst over a military uniform that gives them an excuse to have the characters wearing a massive neckline, and is Spanish to boot? Come on now. It's the japs. They're all a bunch of degenerates. Of course they make Legión doujins.
This. Asians are nearly always breast men, just like blacks are into ass. It's only really whites who debate the question. Their own women have extremely flat chests, so even slightly bulging booba gets them going.
No, we aren't fascist. However, the military here is very right wing and elements/traditions from the Franco period still exists of course. When Franco died and Spain became a democracy in the 1980s everything from the previous regime carried on so of course we are going to appear more right wing then other armies.
Nah, being fascist in XXI century Spain is like the equivalent of being Elbert Fudd or a russian Vatnik. The problem is the confusion of being a patriot = being a fascist, fallacy that many ignorants believe, even in the military.
No, we aren't fascist. However, the military here is very right wing and elements/traditions from the Franco period still exists of course. When Franco died and Spain became a democracy in the 1980s everything from the previous regime carried on so of course we are going to appear more right wing then other armies.
Eachother
>Maybe
>Why the fuck did I reenlist
They have a goat
Arab porn with poor little goat?
faggiest looking shit, even gayer than goatse
My brother in Christ, have you seen the Russian VDV? The only thing straight is the lines on their shirts. Right out of the Village People.
it's the designated femboy battalion for a reason
He 100% got raped. RIP
What is it about the weird, right-wing nationalist units in militaries that makes them so gay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machismo
>i see big muscly men and get a boner so they must be the gay ones
>dress in gay clothes
>only hang out with other men (well, and apparently animals)
>"I'm not gay, I'm just masculine!"
Yeah ok
you've evidently have never been in the military or a gym before
>masculinity is gay -t. anon
I don't think you've thought this through.
they're gonna give the ginger dude an emergency rectal exam, it's part of the first aid training for VDV troopers
Absolute unit on the right.
>you just know
Can someone explain to me the chinstraps that don’t actually go under their chins?
During parades, soldiers put of the cap in certain moments, for example going below the flag or singing a song for the fallen ones. The idea is doing it energically in one movement, hence no strapping under the chin. Sure there is another explanacion, but that's what they say.
Must be the islamic rape blood
I’ve trained with them before during an exercise in Sicily, they have really high morale compared to everyone else for the most part, but they performed pretty average during STX lanes. Funniest part was that one of them carried a Franco portrait in their IFV
Mexican Marines got along with them, oddly enough at joint training exercises.
>franco portrait in your IFV
The CETME guns were cool as hell. It's a shame that they adopted the G36
If only they adopted a G36 clone or visually similar gun to the G36 like the FX05 in Mexico. Then you'd maintain the tradition of having similar evolutions of gun made simultaneously with Germany by associated or the same engineers.
The CETME E and L deserved better, as did ASTRA and STAR.
Spain gutted its MIC and domestic production just so it could join the EU. Kind of sad
I have used both the Cetme L and G36. Cetme L was brilliant on paper, in fact, the first hundreds manufactured still work properly up today, but as happened with the ameli LMG and the Sniper version of the m43, the latter productions were manufactured with shittier materials.
The cetme L is a good sporting rifle and has good ergonomics for what it is, but is an annoying military weapon prone to failures and maintenance is a fucking pain in the arse.
The G36 is decent: reliable, easy to maintain, accurate for an mass-produced assault rifle...it was a surprise. It has a couple of quirks, but man, that jerry boy never failed me.
Lol, that was my unit. The captain was...an interesting person, a "captain America"...
One of my old platoon leaders would do “Primavera” as a running cadence haha
Man, I have singed that song like a hundred times, maybe more than "A la derecha va el Tercio". There was another one, the lyric was something like "...anguila que fuma debajo del mar..." it was something ridiculous and also funny.
>ameli LMG
Did you ever use it? It looks pretty cool from the videos
I wish I could have made service with one, but I only shooted the mg42 and the m2 as machine gunner. Saw two ameli, one in a museum, the other taking dust in an armory. Everybody wanted to exhange their mg42 or MG4 because the ameli's weigh is the half.
Shame that the PSOE fucked CETME
The Cold War era Spanish army looked cool
I usually jerk off exclusively to commie kit but that stuff is aesthetic as hell
Some of these photos are for advertisement purpose. Still cool tho.
>t. I did the same, but with woodland camo instead of olive drab. TOAs (M113) from behind are probably even the same we used.
Woodland + Stahlhelm is very cool
Chile still uses stahlhelms. They use them for ceremonial duties and actually developed a composite version in the 90s but they're only used in reserve units because army officers complained their shape makes them hard to use prone.
>shape makes them hard to use prone
It also makes it incredibly easy to break your neck from behind. British commandos were taught to push that massive neck flap forward, while pulling the head back with the other hand.
Is it just a mini mg42?
Is more like a Cetme-L on steroids (it uses a rolling-block mechanism), but yes, the cannon and other parts were inspired by the mg42.
Lmao, forget about rolling-block, I meant roller-delayed blowback.
seethe over Gibraltar
Fall out of a balcony Nigel
why do the germans dig holes
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Germans-associated-with-digging-holes-on-beaches
It's some German autism thing, they do it a lot here for some reason.
I love digging holes, especially on beaches. Ever since I was like 5. One time I dog a vietcong tunnel from the backyard, under the house and came out by the driveway.
In order to impress a German qt, it's a way of showing ORDUNG, its genetic autism.
>In order to impress a German qt
Much like working out, digging holes on the beach only attracts other men.
Naturally, a man must learn to defend his hole.
Hehe
They have a genetic need to claim living space. Whether it's Prussian militarism or modern passive-aggression, they must slowly push others aside to claim more space.
Why do the Spanish have such abusive police?
We don't, you're just more aware of police abuse. Because a Spaniards' no1 right and hobby is bitching about how poorly things are run.
No seriously try to look up examples of Police Abuse recorded for each EU country. For Spain you'll find 3, all of which were from 2012, and none of which had lethal consequences.
Meanwhile France and Germany have much more violent encounters every other year and nobody bats an eye. Hell this very year Macron sent his riot brutes to beat the shit out of people multiple times, and they exercised way, way less restrain than anything you'd see in Spain, and you won't find anyone claiming that was wrong.
Take it from a left wing Spaniard who has been on the receiving end of a police charge during the period of peak instability that was Rajoi's tenure. After seeing how shit is run outside of Spain, I have noticed one key trend:
Everyone is 100 times more aware of the reported issues in Spain than the actual issues in their own countries. Sure, Spain is far from perfect, by a very long margin. But most of what we're criticized for by foreigners is shit that happens far worse in their countries. Shit, just look at the Jan 6th protests, multiple people were shot at with actual guns there. You won't see that shit here, but the "Land of the Free" sure will.
And I have come to realize this is because us Spaniards are indeed hypersensitive and mouthy as fuck. We will bitch about every minute issue we have, and I for one see this as a positive. You can't fix shit if you don't admit it's wrong and our police needs reform in many aspects. But my god if our police did even half the shit I've seen other EU police forces do, we'd have started talking about having a boogaloo! It seems your average Spaniard doesn't realize grass ain't greener on the other side, and your average foreigner comes out thinking if we bitch this much we must have some real issues. We don't, we just like bitching a lot.
Every Catalan dog deserves its beating
Going to be in Cadiz and Barcelona and pmi soon. What should I do there?
Barcelona I have no clue as I've never been to Catalonia, but from what I heard rule 1 is protect your pockets. Lots of romanian gypsies there. And other criminals. But really mostly romanian gypsies.
As for Cadiz. It depends on what you like and how far you're willing to go I guess. It has a ton of stuff. The Pueblos Blancos are a favourite of mine but that's if you like historic stuff and walks through rural areas. The beach is pretty good, do beware the tides, as in the fact there is one unlike in the med. Quick tip, if you put your stuff on wet sand, well, it got wet because the sealine reaches that point, and it will do it again in a few hours, so don't leave it there if you won't be close to move.
Also Cadiz capital has a LOT of historic stuff that's just kino. Sadly not all is open to the public (the civil war and explosion de las minas did a number on some of them so they need heavy repairs, plus the phoenician dig of casa del cura is just in need of repairs due to shitty mayors) but, say, la cueva del pajaro azul, the cathedrals (both), the beaterio, puerta tierra, santa catalina, it has a lot of good places to go. Really if you wanna go visit all churches the whole damn province has a lot of good places, and a good amount of castles too. Plus if you call beforehand Navantia has a nice tour of the old docks. There's a lot of tours in general if you wanna learn a lot of fun history.
On the nature side Doñana is also nearby (most of it is in Huelva but it reaches Cadiz Province) plus the Serranía has a ton of nature trails so that's a must if you like trees. Oh and I HAVE to recommend the catas. Wine tasting. There's a LOT of Bodegas (that's winemaker in Spain) which offer some really great tasting sessions where they also give a little tour and show how it is made and the history and stuff. Best way to get hammered, ever. And wait for pt 2 because I ran out of characters.
>Lots of romanian gypsies there. And other criminals.
no te olvides de los subhumanos marroquies
True in general but Romanians and Moroccans usually hate each other. From what I heard Moroccans congregate a lot on northern catalonia, but Barcelona is Romanian territory. Which may actually be for the better. Romanian gypsies are thiefs, Moroccans are actually dangerous.
Catalonia is such a shithole
He has to avoid El Raval, even La mina is less problematic, lots of moros there stealing and shanking. Of course it doesn't reach usa city levels of bad be a long shot, but if he will be shanked, its there.
Here we see someone exemplifying what
mentioned of Spaniards being maybe too vociferous if compared with the outside.
Here's the crime stats for europe: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings_current.jsp?region=150
As you can see, Spain looks pretty damn safe. Indeed it is near the bottom of EU crime stats every year consistently. Even during the 2012 debacle times it was pretty damn safe. And by USA levels it might as well have no crime.
Still we see Barcelona ranks the 2nd highest spanish city after Bilbao temporarily outranked it due to a recent wave. If you look at prior years you will see indeed Barcelona regularly is on the top 2 while Bilbao has peaks and Madrid is on 2nd or 3rd place usually, sometimes getting into 4th if Seville decides to take 3rd. Either way as the linked map from 2021 shows, yeah, this is why Spaniards are extremely mad about Catalonia's horrendous (by their metric) crime statistics and the moors than bring them.
And more power to them! You should fight to be as safe as possible. But you put Catalonia's "horrendous" 50 point crime stats next to UK's average on the 60s to 70s... And suddently it doesn't look that bad. And you compare it to USA and might get a hearty chuckle at the idea it's anything to worry about.
Either way, lessons to learn. Catalonia is shit by Spanish standards. But Spanish standards are damn high. So don't take it too seriously when you see Spaniards at each other throats. That's just part of their culture.
Giving Catalonia autonomy was the biggest mistake, decentralization was a terrible idea, just so they can larp with their invented language 200 years ago
As somebody from Barcelona, note that the "high" crime rates are actually a thing only in touristic areas like Barcelona or Girona, which also have an inmigration problem.
Once you get out of the tourist traps and the city centers, you can pretty much walk alone at any time of the night without fear in almost all neighbourhoods (except gypsy ones, of course). In fact, Barcelona was much more gritty and actually violent decades ago. Until the 80-90s street fights were common at night between small teenager gangs or skinheads vs. metalheads, which are unheard of today.
The city became disneyfied for tourists since the 1992 olympic games, and areas that were third world shitholes in the 80s are gentrified with very high standards of living and excellent services.
All the current culture wars propaganda about "15min cities" are hilarious to me when most of Barcelona is already pretty much like that since forever, and people do whatever the fuck they want, getting out of the city on weekends out of boredom to see other places and break the monotony.
pt 2:
On the restaurant side you got Aponiente if you want the POSHEST michelin star stuff, plus I loved the degustation menu from Tempus Fugit, if you wanna get hammered on really expensive wine as for it to be with "maridaje" which means 1 glass of wine per dish. Oh and as with the rest of Spain they make Rutas de la Tapa if you wanna just get cheap appetizers and beers with friends.
I forgot to mention when it comes to beaches I was referencing the Playa la Victoria, not La Caleta, La Caleta is fine if you wanna see the people and all that but it's certainly not the same. Also, if you like sea stuff, the club nautico El Cano has nice courses and you can find a lot of boats on Sancti Petri, which can also take you to an old fort that's fun to explore.
If you know enough spanish there's also the Carnaval Chico, basically the groups that celebrate Carnaval all year long, they're fun for a bit but if you don't know spanish or don't know enough about spanish culture to get the references it won't be for you. And of course there's all the military stuff! Cadiz is where you'll find most historic stuff about the Spanish Navy, the two were tied since pretty much forever until the attempts to centralize by first the Bourbons and later Franco, and its only till the second that it fell out of relevance, though even then with Navantia's presence there it's questionable wether or not it truly is all that irrelevant. Either way, lots of museums, you can even see their mausoleum which is a great place to go for a tour, and the observatory is also pretty cool to see.
Oh and do try to avoid Campo de Gibraltar right now, the region around Gibraltar, on the eastern side of the province. There's been a spike in criminality and yet another british petrol ship polluted the area, which combined with Gibraltar's messy Brexit negotiations is causing instability. Not a good place to visit them. Specially if you don't know Spanish.
OH also a pt 3 with warnings I forgot.
1-DON'T JUMP OFF A BALCONY. You'd think that should go without saying, but... Apparently not!
2-There's this plaza called Plaza de las Flores, where you see the statue of Columela. That's Gypsy Central, great tourist spot, good food, great views, lots of tourists and that's precisely why pickpockets love it. So when in there be aware. Barcelona may have the highest pickpocket rate in Spain by far, but during tourist season every city has at least 1 plaza like that, Cadiz got the 1.
3-To get to San Sebastian there's this beautiful bridge over the sea, and during high tide, specially when its dark, you may think of taking a bath there. DO NOT. Every fucking year we have at least 1 brit or frenchman that jumps in. THAT IS A REEF. WHEN LOW TIDE COMES IN IT IS UNCOVERED AND EVERYTHING, THERE'S LIKE 20CM OF WATER THERE TOPS, YOU WILL DIE.
I swear I personally stopped 1 idiot myself, hell last year the mayor just decided to change the old sign for a bright yellow one, and yet 1 frenchman still jumped. Look if you jump you're not taking a risk, ok, it's not like on those places where you can jump but there's some rocks here and there making it dangerous THE PLACE IS FUCKING FLAT IT IS GUARANTEED YOU WILL HIT THE REEF. We don't need more dunces splitting their heads there, please.
Like any military at home, rape female personnel.
I can't believe he paraded is cock around town like that. What is the Guardia Civil doing?
>female personnel
haha imagine her crushing you
Most of them join the army because there are no other jobs. I would asume thqt makes a difference in performance. Like all those germans trying to quit when the ukranian war started.
>Most of them join the army because there are no other jobs
Not really true, most of the guys who entered the academy in 2017 did it because of the Catalans
Nah, I know some and it is just a job.
If there were jobs or they could emigrate like STEMcels do they wouldn't spend so much time watching tv and worrying about stupid shit like that
Did you forget your trips on your other tacticool jacket, anon?
>Did you forget your trips on your other tacticool jacket, anon?
i forget so much I cant even remember when I had fun the last time
Time to add this site to the blocking extension and go have some fun then, anon. Life isn't short, but time is precious
Also, check this 5.
its fine, yesterday I rekt the leading rust protection product at the 1st try while using wrong chemcals. That is fun tbh if I remember im crazy. Blocking PrepHole would kill me, whatever I do is related to labwork, gun oils, rust, chemistry or PrepHole so its pretty much my life when I exclude a nice anime before bedtime IMAO. Not a weeb but real movies and TV turned out woke which is enemy
You have a ton of movies, shows and literature to pick from. Try also to do some outdoor activities, even if it's just walking around the city a bit.
It can do wonders.
I'm logging off. Remember to do that too! Nite nites
>Spanish Military
>ALLLAH AKBAR
>WHY DO YOU ABLINO CRAKERS NOT TAN IN THE SUN UNDER 30MINS???
>FUKIN RACISTS
Is this the gayest military uniform currently in use?
Gachimuchi army.
>TO THE CLIFFS!
are anglos really intimidated by an open collar shirt, I guess that's what happens when you have no machismo
Yes
>That pic
O dios he visto el paraiso!
Sexo
I think it has to do with art, we have sold the idea of the blue eyed blondie being supposed to be something non terrestrial, meanwhile the woman of dark hair and eyes is a creature of Mother Earth, a witch of fertility and carnal celebration.
The correct image to represent the Spanish military
Verification not required
Lose to SAUNDERS
Stop it anon
Booba
Swan around like a bunch of gays.
>Monday
PT (calisthenics), then eat mud in full gear
>Tuesday
PT (7-10 miles run and 30 push ups right after), then eat mud in full gear
>Wednesday
PT (moar calisthenics, maybe bodylifting), then eat mud in full gear
>Thursday
PT(running again 7-10 miles), then eat mud in full gear
>Friday
Couple hours practising military parades, cleaning tons and tons of shit in the HQ, weapon maintenance, If we were lucky, vehicle maintenance(vehicle working = less mud to eat). If you did not fucked up anything, you could go to your home to spend the whole weekend before coming back to suffer for your country.
>t. served in Light Infantry, Todo por la Patria
no battle drills?
What do you think eating mud entails?
Yes, but are quite variable to explain. All of them ended in getting shitted and tired. Mainly urban combat (cleaning some houses and streets) or conventional combat where we would run some hills taking cover. The most annoying were those made in San Gregorio training field, 10 days or more sleeping in the mud no hot water, no electricity, no time for having a break, all the time doing exercises.
Once in a month at least some rucking between 15-20 miles at the mountains, those were cool ngl.
Estoy en la última fase de la Academia General Militar. Acabo de empezar la escuela de infantería. ojalá me vaya a Almogávares. Algún consejo para un alférez?
Trata bien a tus soldados, cabos y sargentos (especialmente a los cabos y sargentos). En algunas unidades sólo te pedirán que cumplas con los protocolos de saludo tratando a los subalternos, en otras se esperará que seas elitista y los trates como carne de cañón. Esto no es la mili de hace 25 años, aquí la gente se ha apuntado voluntariamente porque es o el único empleo fiable que han pillado o porque realmente quieren dar todo por su nación; en ambos casos quieren intentar mantener su puesto y van a esforzarse siempre que les des medios y conocimientos. Tratarlos de carnaza te va a dar mala imágen y menos facilidades. El resto es empollar (sobretodo radios y cartografía) y mantener buen físico(nada de drogas salvo que quieras quedar en ridículo tras la prueba de meada), como teniente de infantería te va a tocar chupar mucho campo.
Independentism in Catalonia is just a politic trick. There are people who really support independentism due how stupid is the central goverment, but the main catalonian politics just use it as a leverage tool for gain favors from central goverment and propaganda. Catalonia is too dependant from Spain and EU. There will be no tanks in Barcelona's Diagonal. Independance is a remote possibility, a State like Texas has more probabilities.
>Ona, Grande, Libre
Kek, lo que tiene vivir a la sombra de una dictadura viejuna...
gracias por el consejo, a veces me gustaría ir a la ruta de la guardia civil pero creo que me gustará después de Toledo.
> lo que tiene vivir a la sombra de una dictadura viejuna
Diría que el franquismo es mejor que el chiste que tenemos ahora
Nada te impide seguir opositando a GC por dentro del ejército, incluso te reservan plaza si tienes cinco años de servicio. Seguramente ya lo sepas, pero si no has hecho ejercicios en el campo de maniobra de Alijares, pilla repelente de insectos, uno con mínimo 20% Deet. Se acerca buen tiempo y con ello garrapatas a patadas...
Nuke Barcelona btw
>Todo por la Patria
please beat up the catalans more next time
t - Flemish seperatist that just hates those annoying catalan fucks
Ona, Grande y Libre!
>What do they do?
Check my trip
They make my quivering boipucci moist
OP image is just the Spanish Legion, they have been using the same style parade uniform since the Spanish Civil War
how come the spanish legion all look like a tom of finland drawing?
Hispanic macho culture, Eastern Euros have the same thing
Because their name is incomplete. Originally they were the AFRICA legion. Look at any european army in africa and you'll see they were certainly more open than average. Hell the Italians wore shorts and it wasn't uncommon to see germans just straight up shirtless, specially artillery operators.
But then the civil war happened and they went from the Africa Legion to THE Legion by winning. And the uniform just stuck for historical reasons.
They were based
>-1944
why didn't they continue until 45? too pussy?
the allies made it very clear that if they didn't pull back the Azul division they would consider the Spanish to be part of the axis.
Considering the allies bordered Spanish marroco, controlled the med and Spain was still in shambles after the civil war. They didn't fancy getting invaded and even for the germans having uninterupted access to Spanish resources was worth more than one under strenght division
An execution by firing squad was fairly merciful considering what the leftists in the Spanish Civil War had been doing
I miss the Spanish Civil War thread
They prance around and larp as soldiers.
I do that
Chin Inspection Day!
Kek, unitonically true. Either thick lushfull beards or polished as marble jaws.
I’ll never forgive the Spanish for raping an entire continental culture into existence
I miss it
This is some Tom of Finland shit right here. Not saying that's a bad thing.
oh no sisters....
At least they are proud of their roots
Why is anyone surprised by this? Putting your life on the line for other people is a pretty extreme thing to do, so naturally it attracts extremists.
Lmao. Leaving aside all the other autism concentrated in that article. La Legión doesn't deploy for Covid operations. That was the UME, whose job it is to deploy for emergencies like natural disasters, pandemics, etc. Hell, UME isn't even part of the land army they're classified on the 4th branch along the Royal Guard and musics, they don't even have the same commands outside of the very top (aka the king, nominally, and defense ministry.)
La Legión is a mostly ceremonial segment of the army. Sending them after Covid would be completely ridiculous.
No. UME got the spotlight, but most other units that weren't involved in deployments abroad or critical tasks were devoted overnight to cleaning, patrolling and checkpoints.
are they the only army in Western Europe that does religious stuff? https://youtu.be/8XULTHbK5z8
gib Spanish gf
Not a real Spaniard. She's a quarter Mexican
She's latinx, not a Spaniard.
Are you kidding? Is there anything they don't do?
I’m surprised about the amount of fan art the japs have of the legion
Are you REALLY surprised the japs thirst over a military uniform that gives them an excuse to have the characters wearing a massive neckline, and is Spanish to boot? Come on now. It's the japs. They're all a bunch of degenerates. Of course they make Legión doujins.
Hilarious, because Millán-Astray, the founder of the Spanish Legion, was a jap fan that loved the early Bushido stuff that reached europe, and mixed it with catholic dogma to create the credo of the Spanish Legion (basically a death cult)
He publised in 1941 a translation to spanish of Inazo Nitobe's Bushido: the Soul of Japan (1905), although it's said to be a ghost translation from the french version.
Being based and inflicting massive casualties on communists
>massive casualties on communists
Are they really still fascist? I thought that was just a case of "everyone more right wing than me is fascist" from journos.
This. Asians are nearly always breast men, just like blacks are into ass. It's only really whites who debate the question. Their own women have extremely flat chests, so even slightly bulging booba gets them going.
No, we aren't fascist. However, the military here is very right wing and elements/traditions from the Franco period still exists of course. When Franco died and Spain became a democracy in the 1980s everything from the previous regime carried on so of course we are going to appear more right wing then other armies.
Nah, being fascist in XXI century Spain is like the equivalent of being Elbert Fudd or a russian Vatnik. The problem is the confusion of being a patriot = being a fascist, fallacy that many ignorants believe, even in the military.
Also this.
>The problem is the confusion of being a patriot = being a fascist
many such cases for retards
>or a russian Vatnik
almost all russians are vatniks.
they train to kill british people in the gibraltar strait
They stand around looking FABULOUS!
Same shit any other legion does..but more gay.