Is making a Royal Marine Loadout Right?

[Rogerborg]

Same with beret's. Had a serving marine on site at a game I was at and he chewed a guy out for turning up wearing one even without a badge on.

I agree with him doing that, for the reasons given.

However, I also think the marine should have been invited to leave the site, because it's just folk playing a game.

Best if the issue never comes up, really.

 

[StayOnTarget]

Your kit should be inspired by the Marines not a direct copy in my opinion,if your trying to stand out from the masses then MTP may not be the best choice of uniform anyway fair enough if you have the upmost respect for the Marines  I feel the same way about the lads who fought in the Falklands but I'd never dress in their gear out of respect. For me Airsoft is no different to those who put on the England football kit and go for a kick around on a Sunday morning its dress up and play.

 

[Druid799]

I’d said say how you react should be balanced by by how the other player is behaving (what I’ve always done anyway) if the guy is just part of the group and not drawing attention to him self then I’ll have a quiet word with them over the subject and 9outa10 players most of the time will say sorry no problem and put away what ever it is , it’s when ever there acting like a right cock or just generally disrespecting the item by action or appearance then I may be a bit more ‘vocal’ .

example my home site there was one person who was tooling around the site with Royal Navy patches and commando patches all over him and he was overheard telling some kids about his commando course . Now he didn’t look old enough to have done that so I asked him about it and he said he was medically discharged in his last wk of commando training so he’d done it all bar the long haul at the end so was entitled to them , fair enough, so I then asked him what he did in the navy and he said missile tech ! Now the bells started wringing why would a techy be doing the commando course ?? To be then informed by someone who knew him very well that infact he’d actually voluntarily binned the navy at the end of day one and hadn’t even drawn his uniform ! 

So I suggested it mite be a good idea to NOT wear those patches again as he will piss someone off big time over it . Then not a mth later I see the same twat wearing a grenadier guards DZ patch , a medic patch on the back of his helmet and a big Red Cross on his right arm ! Now as an ex-army Medic this really pissed me off and I freely admit (much to my shame) I totally lost it when I saw this , how the hell could he have been in the guards and a medic ?

so I confronted him and his reply was “he’d been in the guards cadets and he’d done his st Johns first aid at work HSE 3-day course and THAT entitled him to have the medic badge and to top it all he used the same reason for the Red Cross , which he was also wearing on the wrong arm (should only be warn on the left arm) as well ! So moral of the story is if someone objects to something like this don’t try and bullshit your way out it’ll only end in tears (which he was in by the time I’d finished with him and I hadn’t even laid a finger on him nor threatened too , I wanted too god did I want too put him in the ground but I didn’t ) just ask why and if they do get arsey strait off just get a marshal to come and mediate for you .

 

[clumpyedge]

I agree with him doing that, for the reasons given.

However, I also think the marine should have been invited to leave the site, because it's just folk playing a game.

Best if the issue never comes up, really.

Not when the guy in question was flaunting about site like he owned the place barking orders and being a twat. Deserved putting in his place specially since he had the audacity to question said person about his service!

The issue won’t come up at all if people don’t wear stuff they shouldn’t be!

 

[Immortal]

Best to take all your badges off so you can't be identified when you're breaking the Geneva Airsoft Convention IMHO.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Best to take all your badges off so you can't be identified when you're breaking the Geneva Airsoft Convention IMHO.

agreed, lemme grab my flammenwerfer and lets do this lads!

 

[Rogerborg]

Best to take all your badges off so you can't be identified when you're breaking the Geneva Airsoft Convention IMHO.

 

[Vulpiness]

serious question, I'm assuming these are banned at depot? For that matter, i don't think I've ever seen a USGL used at Depot. 

 

[Druid799]

serious question, I'm assuming these are banned at depot? For that matter, i don't think I've ever seen a USGL used at Depot. 

No it’s the grenade it’s self , the 40mike he’s referring too ,  it fires it’s entire load of BBs in a matter of seconds in a straight line and on its release the manufacturers advertising made it look like one of the most dangerous stupid things ever released for Airsoft , if used correctly for what it’s supposedly intended for it’s ok BUT we all know more than a fair few would abuse its use so most sites have banned them 

 

[Adolf Hamster]

No it’s the grenade it’s self , the 40mike he’s referring too ,  it fires it’s entire load of BBs in a matter of seconds in a straight line and on its release the manufacturers advertising made it look like one of the most dangerous stupid things ever released for Airsoft , if used correctly for what it’s supposedly intended for it’s ok BUT we all know more than a fair few would abuse its use so most sites have banned them 

i can report from both sending and recieving ends it's really underwhelming, maybe in a cqb site but outdoors they're on a par with standard shells for uselessness.

 

[Druid799]

i can report from both sending and recieving ends it's really underwhelming, maybe in a cqb site but outdoors they're on a par with standard shells for uselessness.

Think that was the big problem all you ever saw was CQB and it getting used in the most stupid and dangerous of ways but then you had absolutely no film of it being used outdoors where by all accounts ((as you’ve just proved) it’s pretty ‘meh !’ But there ya go , you put out shitty advertising your product is going to go no where fast ! ?‍

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Think that was the big problem all you ever saw was CQB and it getting used in the most stupid and dangerous of ways but then you had absolutely no film of it being used outdoors where by all accounts ((as you’ve just proved) it’s pretty ‘meh !’ But there ya go , you put out shitty advertising your product is going to go no where fast ! ?‍

i'll confess i got suckered and bought 2 of em, not really been used much but they're very picky about how they're loaded and as mentioned outdoors they're pretty useless given it's unhopped so at any kind of range you just use the aeg instead.

 

[YorkieT17]

a medic patch on the back of his helmet and a big Red Cross on his right arm ! Now as an ex-army Medic this really pissed me off and I freely admit (much to my shame) I totally lost it when I saw this , how the hell could he have been in the guards and a medic ?

so I confronted him and his reply was “he’d been in the guards cadets and he’d done his st Johns first aid at work HSE 3-day course and THAT entitled him to have the medic badge and to top it all he used the same reason for the Red Cross , which he was also wearing on the wrong arm (should only be warn on the left arm) as well !

I’m not ex forces but I can see where you guys come from. I worked fucking hard for my qualifications for several years. If your going to tell me a FAW cert or 3 day HSE entitles you to wear a Red Cross/ other medic patch it boils my piss. Or you can claim relevant experience. Completely unreasonable maybe but when you’ve never done the job or seen the shit that comes with it you have no right. It’s misrepresentation. 

Bloody hell I did some training with the saturdays and Sunday’s once - doesn’t make me a ‘Blade’. I rode in the front seat of a police car once - that didn’t give me a warrant.

Sorry I’m done sticking my oar in. 

Rant mode deactivated.

 

[Keldon]

I’m not ex forces but I can see where you guys come from. I worked fucking hard for my qualifications for several years. If your going to tell me a FAW cert or 3 day HSE entitles you to wear a Red Cross/ other medic patch it boils my piss. Or you can claim relevant experience. Completely unreasonable maybe but when you’ve never done the job or seen the shit that comes with it you have no right. It’s misrepresentation. 

Bloody hell I did some training with the saturdays and Sunday’s once - doesn’t make me a ‘Blade’. I rode in the front seat of a police car once - that didn’t give me a warrant.

Sorry I’m done sticking my oar in. 

Rant mode deactivated.

Being ex-forces I think you can wear what ever you want. If you have done the course to so called earn that patch, what you really have earned is the right to wear that patch with pride. 

This is airsoft, dress up of grown ups. 

I understand where people can get pissed because they earned the right to be proud of their patch and someone who hasn't is just flaunting it in their face(in their opinion) but as long as people don't claim that false pride then I'm happy with it. 

The only thing that I hate to see people wear that they haven't earned are medals be that civilian or military. As these are not earned by doing a course but by doing a deed. 

Remember copying you is a form of flattery

 

[Jedi_Master]

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[Rogerborg]

serious question, I'm assuming these are banned at depot?

Yes, all BB projecting shells including (and this was new and a bit surprising last week) MOSCART shower shells.

The reason given being what @Druid799 said: not everyone can be trusted to use them safely and sensibly in point-blank CQB, so sadly nobody gets to use them.

Perhaps related, they also said plain and clearly for the first time that I'm aware of: no bang rule, don't do it, just shoot folk.

 

[BigStew]

Yes, all BB projecting shells including (and this was new and a bit surprising last week) MOSCART shower shells.

The reason given being what @Druid799 said: not everyone can be trusted to use them safely and sensibly in point-blank CQB, so sadly nobody gets to use them.

Perhaps related, they also said plain and clearly for the first time that I'm aware of: no bang rule, don't do it, just shoot folk.

That including the APS m870? Was looking forward to giving mine a go at the depot.

 

[Vulpiness]

Yes, all BB projecting shells including (and this was new and a bit surprising last week) MOSCART shower shells.

The reason given being what @Druid799 said: not everyone can be trusted to use them safely and sensibly in point-blank CQB, so sadly nobody gets to use them.

Perhaps related, they also said plain and clearly for the first time that I'm aware of: no bang rule, don't do it, just shoot folk.

Huh, I see. Probably for the best, you wouldn't fire a grenade in an environment like that anyway, you'd just throw it. 

Does that include revolvers? 

Ah cool, I got weird looks the time I went around asking people to surrender. XD 

 

[Rogerborg]

That including the APS m870? Was looking forward to giving mine a go at the depot.

Should be OK, they're fine with 3/6 shot gas shotguns. Best to ask beforehand though.

Does that include revolvers? 

Shell loading revolvers have been banned for quite some time since someone played silly buggers at chrono with one.

Ah cool, I got weird looks the time I went around asking people to surrender. XD 

Up until recently they've said bang/surrender is optional for both parties, and don't expect folk to take it.

Last weekend, they said clearly: don't do it, just shoot.

Which didn't stop me offering and having one gratefully accepted.  Sometimes it really is the right thing to do.  But I can also see why they'd say not to, as it can lead to grumpiness.

 

[Vulpiness]

Shell loading revolvers have been banned for quite some time since someone played silly buggers at chrono with one.

I thought that was just the gas ones and the ones with CO2 in the grip were okay?