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Old 08-31-2005, 01:07 PM   #1
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Greek Cypriot soldier here

Hey just thought you might find this interesting-I'm in the Greek army in Cyprus. I'm in my second month(of the two year service) and I am an artillery gunner.
And guess what, i'm gonna be firing-yes 1944 vintage 155mm Howitzers. World War two and Korean war veterans.
How'bout that? Not really enjoying the army but this is quite cool nevertheless
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Old 08-31-2005, 06:58 PM   #2
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Thats awesome Chocks! I plan on joining ROTC next year so i can have the prviledge to salute and wear uniform!

I bet those 155mm guns are pretty cool. Congrats again!
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Good stuff. Don't go deaf.
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Oh yeah. Where your helmet and ear plugs whenever you get ready to fire artillery!
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G'day Chocks I'm an ex Aussie Army Gunner myself. I wasn't field guns though, I was an Air defence gunner using RBS-70 and Rapier SAM's.
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Awesome Wildcat! You have any pics of your service? Seeing someone fire a machine gun is pretty cool!
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Have alook at "Wildcat's Deployment Pics" in the personal gallery thread. Lots of photos that I took while in the Gulf in 2003.
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Welcome Chocks.
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Awesome! Ill go check them out!
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I'll try and post some photos when I have time. We are actually sort of a branch of the Greek army in Cyprus. Hey about the earplugs-Yeah I'll remember that! I was interviewed by the new commander yesterday-he says that as i'm a aimer a lot is expected of me, hehe. Apparently our unit has a certain reputation.
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Hmm...Interesting.
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Well keep up that good tradition.
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Apparently our unit has a certain reputation.
In the good sense I hope.
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I guess that is good, right?
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You can have bad reputations too, like our Air Defense Artillary which has a bad reputation for shootind down our planes and the planes of our allies more than anything. It sucks but it is the hard truth.
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