Defender of the Mount Delta-----PLA paratroopers

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darth sidious

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I never said full combat load just 30pound in weight its not so hard once toy get use to it yes you can take off equipment in water I have take off packs and shoes before with partice I am sure you can do it by the way combat gear in not 50 pound tommies is WWI in only 60 pounds and they have a hard time running:)
 
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Gollevainen

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Well one word yimmy and darth, and you can go swimming in some other place!
I dont give shit (and so doesent anyone else) wheter you can swim or not, but sure is that you cannot behaive in mature manner!

So if one of you continues this, You both get a warning, understood?
 
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Red Guard

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a mistake i had made.
the rear pack of the gear has 5 mag packs. that adds up the ammo total to 4+1+5, 10 magz in total per trooper, that means one could carry 300 bullets into action, wowwwwwww
 
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Bohemond

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Well, US marines are trained to swim with their gear, about 30 pounds worth...so Im assuming the Chinese could do the same;)
 
MIGleader

MIGleader

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Bohemond said:
Well, US marines are trained to swim with their gear, about 30 pounds worth...so Im assuming the Chinese could do the same;)
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but thats only for five minutes. it all comes down to how good a swimmer you are. im quite surpised that in boot camp, many adults dont know how to swim, much less carry 30 pounds of gear. while others like swimmerxc:D can do it in a breeze.

i guess pla frogmen and elite marines are taught how to swim for sustained periods witha heavy load, as their job would require it. im not surprised if they strap bricks to the soldiers bakc and make em swim...i sae it in china once.

but even with all this intense training, swimming with full gear in rough seas is incredible ardous and dangerous. the people that came up with the "million man swim" idea dont know what their talking about.
 
swimmerXC

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MIGleader said:
but thats only for five minutes. it all comes down to how good a swimmer you are. im quite surpised that in boot camp, many adults dont know how to swim, much less carry 30 pounds of gear. while others like swimmerxc:D can do it in a breeze.

i guess pla frogmen and elite marines are taught how to swim for sustained periods witha heavy load, as their job would require it. im not surprised if they strap bricks to the soldiers bakc and make em swim...i sae it in china once.

but even with all this intense training, swimming with full gear in rough seas is incredible ardous and dangerous. the people that came up with the "million man swim" idea dont know what their talking about.
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umm we dont train with weights like 30 pounds.. we just do
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for like an hour, then just cardio for 30 mintues swimming no stoping back and forth... i seen and tried those weighted vested before, the university kids uses them (mostly 3-5 pounders); trust me if you can't swim proficiently enough... well you better have a life guard or two near by...
then again you dont see specops units swimming free style, it mostly breast stroke they use, which should make it easier than freestyle swimming or anyother forms

wouldn't most specops have a life jacket or a flotation gear on them, seems like a waste of life if your going to sent a specops unit in without those floaters..
BTW i think the "million man swim" is suppose to mean how china's will invade taiwan (before when PLAN's sea life sucked) :confused:
 
MIGleader

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swimmerXC said:
umm we dont train with weights like 30 pounds.. we just do
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for like an hour, then just cardio for 30 mintues swimming no stoping back and forth... i seen and tried those weighted vested before, the university kids uses them (mostly 3-5 pounders); trust me if you can't swim proficiently enough... well you better have a life guard or two near by...
then again you dont see specops units swimming free style, it mostly breast stroke they use, which should make it easier than freestyle swimming or anyother forms

wouldn't most specops have a life jacket or a flotation gear on them, seems like a waste of life if your going to sent a specops unit in without those floaters..
BTW i think the "million man swim" is suppose to mean how china's will invade taiwan (before when PLAN's sea life sucked) :confused:
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i wasnt referring to u!! i was talking about the soldiers that train for water swimming.

a life vest might have hinderance on the gear carried once on land. what they really need to invent is a bullet proof floatation vest.

as for "million man swim", certain people beilieved china would sent its soldiers, with backpaks of ammo, food, communications gear, a gun ...
not a single man would make it, especially in the 16 km taiwan strait.

edit:sry, there should be 0 after the 16...
 
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chinawhite

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the million man swim wasn't actualy the million man swim. ill explain in a PM.

the taiwan strait is over 100km
 
Gollevainen

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I'm sure there is much more to discuss about chinese paratroopers than just SWIMMING...so perhaps a time to drift back to the topic, eh?
 
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Mr_C

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Yes.... swimming in the army suck. It really really sucks. They made me wear speedos!! My CO once offered me to be attached to some paratrooper regiment. I didn't feel like it so i told him to get stuffed... in a friendly way.
 
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