QuoteIf anyone wants my advice, don't join the modern army
I agree. The armies all over the world have become slaves to the UN/ZOG`s plan to "making the world save for democracy", and will unleash their campaign against the resisting White "terrorists" who refuse to accept jew domination just as they are doing against the mudslams at the moment. My advice to Whites would be to at lease learn how to use a gun and to survive in the bush for a few days. In S-Africa we have enough right-wing organisation where these skills could be learned, I believe the USA is the same, dont know about Aus. Obviously SA situation is different - the youth who did not go to the army have no idea of survival or gun use - but then again lately the movements have been flooded with youths - fear or anger is the driving force, or maybe both. The time will come when we will be in open warfare against the NWO - or will just have to fall in with it - adapt or die - at this stage we still have time to organize.
Phase2 - Individual Training
Going back to the army after the first pass was not easy - depressing to say the least. Arriving back it was time for Phase2; a time for individual training. I had a choice between becoming a driver, gunner, "tiffy"[mechanics], normal trooper or signaler. After some thought I went for the gunners course - 20mm turret gunner - the only requirement was that you musn`t be taller than 1.7m, otherwise you would be unable to fit in the turret and close the hatch above you. We spent about 2 weeks in the base at Upington before going to the bush, a place in the open semi-desert called Riemvasmaak, where we would spent the rest of Phase2 - from now on we would seldom see the inside of a base again.
The troops were separated into their indivual groups ... gunners, drivers,etc ... and off we went with the "old men"[mostly PF`s who fought in the SWA/Angolan war] who would show us no mercy from here on. We drove for a few hours before we reached our destination in the midlle of nowhere. From scratch all of us [gunners] had to built our own camp - set up tents, toilets, ammo tents and the food tent - we were about 200 troops. We were warned that if we saw any unexploded shells to leave them well alone and report it - the place was littered with them from years of army training. After about two days we were ready for training. We would live of ratt packs for six days of the week for most of the time with an "braai" [bar-b-que] Saturday evenings and cooked food on Sundays. We were allowed six beers each on Saturdays evenings with the braai ... now increased from the two each during basics, if you could afford it, that is. Gunners caught drunk got DB[detention] and were removed from the bush camp by the MP`s - cant recall that this ever happened.
For the first time we could get into the Ratel troop carrier itself - there were four variations - 12.7mm-, 20mm-, 60mm-[mortar] and the 90mm Ratel[training were given at Bloemfontein]. Except for the 60mm all the others guns had a 7.62mm browning machine gun as a secondary weapon, used to get on target; once the 7.62mm hit the target ... all hell was let loose with the 20mm ... by so doing important ammo was not wasted. First we had to learn how to dismantle our individual guns - I opted for the 20mm. I now had three weapons to clean - 20mm gun, 7.62mm and my R-4 rifle, which I seldom used hereafter. The gunners and drivers used to help each other a lot - they had the most work when it came to inspections ! Because of this a special bond developed between gunner and driver. The dismantling excercise was no joke, especially on the 20mm; lets just say it consisted of a lot of parts ! I remember disassembling and assembling that 20mm until I could do it in my sleep.
Next we had some turret-training. Like the 1-IB[2 liner corporal] the gunner also had a headset and could hear what the corporal was saying to other corporals in other Ratels. With a simple flick of an switch on the headset that could be cut off, and the corporal or gunner could talk to anyone in the Ratel itself. The gunner also got some training on the B-56 radio. The turret could turn 360 degrees. Inside it had two control arms - one was to elavate the gun barrel while the other turned the turret left or right. On the same control arms were the triggers for the guns - 7.62mm browning on the left and the 20mm on the right. It took some time to get used to left and right ... 7.62 and 20mm ... up and down ... and left and right ! Confusion reigned ... but with an angry corporal next to you ... you had no choice but to learn quickly !
Before we could do some practical firing, we first had some training concering the "sights" - this was of utmost importance, as well as being able to judge distance. The Ratel had a reach of more or less 2400m as I can recall. The sights was marked of in 200m lines [200/400/600 up to 2400m] and was divided down the middle from top to bottom ... 7.62mm on the left and the 20mm on the right. Needles to say, setting in the sight was very important. We were taught to measure off an accurate distance, of say 300m, put down a target, and then put our sights on 300m. A shot would be taken and the sights set accordingly - up or down according to where the shell exploded - before the target or over the target. Your sights was perfect when the 300m line of the sight was on the target ... and BOOM ... you hit it ! Now at last we had some time shoot ... and boy was it worth the wait and effort. At this stage we only used practice rounds - the 20mm had another two rounds - HE[high explosive] and armour piercing - we would use them in Phase3.
Now that we learned all we had to, we had an examination ... not like school ... it was all practical. Disassemble, assemble in a certain time ... knowing the B-56 radio[signals, radio silence, etc] ... setting of sights ... and shooting. We all passed the test and we were proud to be gunners ... we were even being treated better by our superiors. Phase2 was behind it was time for pass ... I even straved myself to take a ratt pack home for my family !





- would only get to know this vehicle in Phase2. 