Not his fault he was of age just after the old national service is abolished.


Also, the national service is proven quite popular with the french themselves.

sos

The article is from 2015, but the general mood is the same.

According to the great man himself:

A green army: China redeploys 60,000 soldiers for national re-forestation plan



Exchanging rifles for shovels, China has reassigned more than 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in a bid to to tackle global warming and curb air pollution in China.

It is hoped that newly-planted forests will cover an area of 32,400 square miles - roughly the size of Ireland - in 2018, as the country aims to increase forest coverage to 23% of total landmass by the end of the decade,The Asia Times reported.

A large detachment of the People's Liberation Army, along with members of the armed police force, have been withdrawn from their posts on the northern border to work on non-military tasks inland.

Most will be deployed Hebei province, which encircles Beijing and is known as a major contributor to the notorious smog which blankets the capital city.

Air pollution in Chinese cities is notoriously bad, with the government under pressure to tackle the causes of smog, especially the country's reliance on coal-fired power plants, still the primary source of electricity.

In a related development, The armed police force now has a specially designated forestry wing to patrol and exercise jurisdiction in forested areas - such as the north-eastern Greater Khingan mountain range – dubbed ‘China’s green lungs’ – in Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia provinces, The Asia Times said.

It reported that Zhang Jianlong, head of the State Forestry Administration, recently pledged that that China would aim to grow at least 6.66 million hectares of new forest this year.

China’s total forested area is now around 208 million hectares, with 33.8 million hectares having been added in the past five years.

I could ask this to 95% of all national leaders.

^^^
"but but but these Arabs are just waiting to destroy Israel! We are under threat!"

They might be a threat some time back. Nearly impossible any of them capable to be a threat to Israel anymore nowadays.

More the case nowadays israel is make these pipul hate Israel more and more by its actions and policies. Acting paranoid and lashing out against its neighbors may benefit some parties in Israel, but they invite retaliations and are hardly helpful in creating a more stable middle east and by extension, a safer Israel.

It's a vicious circle. They hit us, we hit them, they hit us back, we hit them back on and on it goes.....

Malaysia Army expands the 10th Para Brigade with the incorporation of the 18th RMR (Para)



SHAH ALAM: Fourth Para Batallion Operational. 18th RMR has been declared as a fully operational Parachute Infantry Batallion by Army chief Gen. Zulkiple Kassim in a ceremony held at Sultan Mahmud Airport, Kuala Terengganu today (Feb. 21, 2018). The batallion is now formally known as 18th RMR (Para).

The ceremony among others saw the control of the batallion handed over to the 10th Para Brigade from the 8th Brigade. Soldiers and officers of the 18th RMR also conducted a static jump over the airport as part of the demonstrations conducted for the ceremony.

Courtesy of MalaysianDefence.com

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Of course some would be trained to commando standard with pathfinding or HALO drop skills, but majority will function as airborne light infantry (as normal for most airborne units).

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 23 2018, 12:53 PM

IMO a good definition of a commando is a soldier that is specially trained for certain missions, mostly occurring behind enemy lines, such as sabotage, combat rescue, assassinations, target acquisition and long-range reconnaissance. They are individually given extra training, (on stuff like covert infiltration, survival and demolitions) than normal soldiers who are trained mostly for conventional warfare.

For example in Afghanistan a normal infantryman would fight the Al-Qaeda and their Taliban allies' soldiers in the front lines via conventional warfare methods like combat patrols, artillery strikes and firefights, while commandos are the ones sent to do more specialized 'behind enemy lines' stuff like assassinating Al-Qaeda leaders, rescuing western hostages and identifying & calling in airstrikes down on secret Al-Qaeda training camps.

A US Marine would not be termed a commando as they are mainly trained for conventional warfare, not special operations. Recon Marines, which are a subset inside the USMC, are commandos though.

Airborne infantry would also not be termed as commandos, as their main duties are also to perform conventional warfare, not special operations.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 26 2018, 03:40 PM

Most probably as eventual replacement for the 2 subs RMN have now. By 2040 the PM-class subs would have been at or very near the end of their service lives (they were launched in 2007).

To the Germans, the Bundeswehr memang very 'anak tiri' bro. Funding ciput, aset ciput. A modern country the size and importance of Germany should have 2-3 times the military it has now. Compared with France, who has a much lower economic power and population number, but has nearly 2 times the military funding and numerical strength Germany has.

Some people think Germany doesn't deserve an army due to its past sins.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 28 2018, 04:46 PM

None as far as I can tell, but these types of aircraft usually aren't deployed against MANPAD-equipped forces in the first place.

Yes, these MD530Gs are earmarked for TDM PUTD (Army Aviation).

They are getting more helicopters nowadays. Originally they had only 10 of those LA109 helicopters. Recently last year they received 12 Nuri
Helicopters from the TUDM.



And now these MD 530Gs I believe the original plan was for us to buy 12 of these, but right now we're getting just 6.

To be clear, patrol were comprised of 12 US Green Berets together with 30 local Nigerien soldiers. All of them were ambushed and all of them fought back.

This particular video's POV it shows just the 3 unfortunate Green Berets as they fought and were killed, but somehow pipul got the impression the whole incident comprised only of the 3 Green Berets vs all 50 militants when in truth in the incident was like 42 gov vs 50+ militants.

What I can gather from news sources what happened was:

1- the team was supposed to do a routine day patrol with their local trainees. Show of force, winning hearts and minds, meet the local people kind of stuff. They were supposed be back by nightfall, so all were only lightly equipped & supplied.
2- orders were received for the patrol to assist in a helicopter-borne snatch operation to be done by another team in another town quite a distance away
3- patrol was too far to help in snatch op, but was redeployed to the general area anyway just in case anyone that got away from the snatch op came their way
4- helicopter snatch op was cancelled after bad weather grounded the helicopters. intel informed patrol the snatch target already left the area but the patrol was ordered to the target area anyway to look for any intelligence that may have been left behind.
5- after a long journey, everybody was tired. patrol commander decided to rest a bit and refill their water supply at a random village
6- reports say some villagers sped away on motorcycles, suspected they wanna warn local militants about the presence of US forces. (later reports say village chief's cellphone has phone numbers of known militants).
7- patrol commander decided to leave ASAP. as patrol left the village, it was ambushed just 2 km from the village.
8- during the ambush, some Green Berets were separated from the main patrol and these are the ones caught in the videos.
9- after the ambush has dissolved, 3 Green Berets (the ones in the video) and 5 Nigerien soldiers are KIA. Another Green Beret's body was found the next day.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 7 2018, 02:12 PM

US Army General complain new recruits can't even throw a hand grenade far enough


A US Army instructor observing a recruit during live grenade training

The United States Army will no longer require recruits to show they can throw hand grenades 25 meters because many of them can’t throw the explosive far enough, it revealed on Friday.

The Army says that starting next summer it will remove the requirement from its Basic Combat Training because it takes too much time to teach enlistees to throw grenades at an adequate distance.
The new policy was reported by Military.com.

What we have found is it is taking far, far too much time,’ said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, the commanding general of the US Army Center of Initial Military Training.

‘It's taking three to four times as much time ... just to qualify folks on the hand grenade course than we had designated so what is happening is it is taking away from other aspects of training.’

‘We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don't have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters,’ he said. ‘In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up.’

Recruits will also no longer be required to successfully pass the land navigation course in order to graduate.

Army demo and exhibition in PD this weekend! Come all!



Thanks to Marhalim @ Malaysiandefence.com

Russia ready to offer Lebanon a $1 billion USD in military equipment and advisory assistance to modernize the Lebanese armed forces


A Lebanese soldier keeps watch over a section of the Syrian/Lebanese border

In what is being described here as a political shift by Moscow in its policy toward Lebanon, Russia is offering it a $1 billion arms package and reportedly seeking a military cooperation agreement. The maneuver could threaten to undermine an existing US military assistance program that has seen more than $1.6 billion in weapons, training, and equipment delivered to the Lebanese Army since 2006.

And, depending on how Lebanon responds, analysts say, the move could also subject the country to US sanctions and even treatment as a pariah by the same Western and Gulf Arab countries that have supported it.

International donor countries are scheduled to meet in Rome Thursday in a demonstration of support for the Lebanese Army and police.

Lebanon and Russia have been discussing potential arms deals since 2009, but it is only recently that Moscow has shown any willingness to subsidize a major armaments package. The $1 billion credit line, which includes a 15-year repayment term at zero percent interest, may have less to do with selling Russian weapons to Lebanon and more to do with building up its influence in the tiny country given the growing competition with the US in Syria, analysts and Lebanese politicians say.

“This offer signals a political shift by Russia toward Lebanon,” says a Lebanese parliamentarian familiar with the deal. “At one point there was no interest from Russia in bankrolling an arms deal. But the more discord there is in Syria with the Americans, the more the Russians show interest here. That’s what has got the [US and British] sponsors [of the Lebanese Army] nervous.”

“Russia sees Lebanon as another arena where it can erode US influence,” says a European diplomat in Beirut. “The last really tangible influence the US has in Lebanon is the relationship with the Lebanese Army. It gives Washington a seat at the table.”

For some in Lebanon, an increase in Russian influence here could serve as a welcome counterweight to the power exerted by Hezbollah and indirectly by its sponsor Iran.

Russian news outlets reported last month that Moscow wants to begin negotiating a military cooperation agreement with Lebanon. The mooted agreement would permit Russia to use Lebanese ports and airports as well as have Russia train the Lebanese Army and hold joint military exercises, the reports said.

Russian companies also are bidding for oil and gas exploration rights in Lebanon’s coastal waters, and both countries are looking to boost their cultural exchanges – Russia has plans to open a Russian language school in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

Shussh...senyap2 sudah la....

So all RMAF flight ops for central region will be out of Subang AFB? Since Sendayan doesn't have air facilities?



This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 16 2018, 03:20 PM

^^
From the looks of it, it seems a pretty long time for only the 2nd chinese pilot to actually serve in the TNI-AU after the 1st....

Same story here, brother.

Some question why so few high-ranking chinese officers are in the ATM, when in truth there's so few chinese recruits to promote from in the first place. There are indeed some chinese general staff members in service nowadays, but these are recruits from the 1970s-1980s era, where there are still a high number of chinese recruits to draw from.

If things continue as they are now (with the lack of fresh chinese recruits, particularly in the Army), we would be lucky to have more than 10 chinese officers in the whole ATM general staff in the near future.