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[bn880 5]

You haven´t met mortars and artillery ? They don´t give you 5 minutes man. It´s 1 minute to come out of tent or snowcave. If you are barefoot or not I dont care but what is above that makes you dead. It´s not infantry that starts an attack. It´s ranged weapons and they need no time to come close pretty soon

If you need to start a dressing show we can put some sticks on your cave or the rest of it once it´s done by naughty 40mm´s.

I guess it helps if you were already dreaming of fighting. Hey look that looks like a new addon, no shit that's a real friggen mortar...!!!

could happen to you

[ralphwiggum 6]

Or from car to car.  

you've been to LA?

[Tydium 0]

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But I'm afraid we don't have as harsch a climate as Norway, atleast no more.

Well it depends in which part of the country you live. As you stated in southern Finland temperatures rarely goes below -20 C but in Lappland temperatures quite often drops below -30 C and occasionally even below -40 C. But as someone said before it's not just the temperature. Wind is even worse.

Fortunately i did my service in southern Finland and those days we were on exercise weren't too cold

[norsu 180]

Yep, weather is quite random in Finland during winter. Year ago it was -30 in south for many weeks and this year only few times below -20.

*EDIT*

http://www.tiehallinto.fi/alk/frames/kelikamerat-frame.html

There you can see the weather all around Finland through webcams .

[Sneaky 0]

Quote[/b] ]Worst misunderstanding is to keep the clothes ON while staying in the sleeping bag.

Well in military missions it´s a necessaty to keep clothes on or do you want to start dressing when enemy knocks or better steps on your tent.

"Oh sorry bad soldier , give me 5 minutes to dress up. Turn around , ok ?"  

It´s boots off when you go to sleep, nothing else. Keep your gun warm ;)

in the norwegian coastal rangers, recon, we tend to sleep on the wrong side of the front line or thereabout, so we got drilled really hard in escaping, so we could get our clothes on an out into "battle" in no time. Trick is just to keep you self and your clothes in the right positions and wake up quicly

Id say within some 3 minutes from contact, we could be ready to leave, with our "jerven"-sleepingbags, and without our tent (we can make it without our tent for some time)

That is supposed to be done while maintaining constant fire on the enemy. tend to be filled with caos the first times

[brgnorway 0]

Quote[/b] ]Worst misunderstanding is to keep the clothes ON while staying in the sleeping bag.

Well in military missions it´s a necessaty to keep clothes on or do you want to start dressing when enemy knocks or better steps on your tent.

"Oh sorry bad soldier , give me 5 minutes to dress up. Turn around , ok ?"  

It´s boots off when you go to sleep, nothing else. Keep your gun warm ;)

in the norwegian coastal rangers, recon, we tend to sleep on the wrong side of the front line or thereabout, so we got drilled really hard in escaping, so we could get our clothes on an out into "battle" in no time. Trick is just to keep you self and your clothes in the right positions and wake up quicly

Id say within some 3 minutes from contact, we could be ready to leave, with our "jerven"-sleepingbags, and without our tent (we can make it without our tent for some time)

That is supposed to be done while maintaining constant fire on the enemy. tend to be filled with caos the first times

Hi!

You were in the coastal rangers? They set up that unit when I was in the military in 1990 . I was at Grřtsund Fort.  

I'll se if I can find some old pics - scan and post them!

[Sneaky 0]

I where there last year (2002-2003)

Lots of fun, but I got a "few" injuries while at it ;)

www.kystjegerkommandoen.tk in case you didnt know. From the 2001-2002 contingent

Find it slightly weird that two norwegians communicate in english

[brgnorway 0]

Quote[/b] ]I where there last year (2002-2003)

Lots of fun, but I got a "few" injuries while at it ;)

Don't tell me you were one of the persons I read about in the newspapers - injuries like serious frost-bite perhaps  

Quote[/b] ]www.kystjegerkommandoen.tk in case you didnt know. From the 2001-2002 contingent

Todays coastal rangers are very different from when I was in the coastal artillery, they're much more specialised and better trained than before. They are no longer based at Melřyvćr Fort are they? I watched a video from an excercise and have to say I was quite impressed.

Funny thing is I happen to know Morten Einebu hehe

Quote[/b] ]Find it slightly weird that two norwegians communicate in english

LOL - I kind of like that. Whenever I hear the norwegian language abroad I feel bad hehe. It's nice it doesn't happen very often though  

[Sneaky 0]

I didnt get any serious frost injuries, only some very minor ones, but a lot of my friends got it. Most, if not all, where in my, uhm, "company". (got no idea what it is called in english )

My injuries were of the overload type (hey, the bloody backpacks weighted more than me! Im not made for such stuff )

Some people says that the service is as hard as, or harder then, the borderjaeger service... how true that is I cant say, but we sure know what pain is

Its all located at Trondened Fort now, except for the recruit period, whitch where moved to Madla camp this year. (poor bastards, start their training in the warm south, then they move far up into the north just when the winter strikes )

It didnt become kystjegerkommandoen officially before about new years eve 2002.

Quote[/b] ] they're much more specialised and better trained than before

hehe, well, In my opinion, we did not get that good training, I feel we could have gotten much better. But that makes me wonder what the rest of the military is like, as we apparently are quite good  

[somebloke 0]

What the problem is, we (the british) don't usually get snow in winter, so we have to use dry ski slopes. Mind you, send some norwegians over here in winter and they'd pretty much hate it. It's cold, and wet, and whats worse you got footy hooligans.

[brgnorway 0]

Quote[/b] ]Mind you, send some norwegians over here in winter and they'd pretty much hate it.

In Bergen where I live it rains on average 275 days a year.

Some like it wet

[somebloke 0]

Yeah but you don't get football hooligans wielding lamposts

[brgnorway 0]

Yeah but you don't get football hooligans wielding lamposts

Hehe.....no we certainly don't.

I have to admit - those hooligans of yours are rather scary