I'm joining the Armored Cavalry! HOOAH!

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Semper Fidelis et Paratus

Cavalry, if we have one

Haven't you heard of the Light Armor Brigade based in Tarlac? Cavalry nowadays is considered mostly of armored units.

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Semper Fidelis et Paratus

infantry... you only need your combat boots, ammo and you're on the go...

Ang sarap ng buhay sa loob ng tangke! Pinaka safe na combat role sa buong AFP.......... kung tirador at sumpak gamit ng kalaban natin. I chose Infantry!

I'll go with the Infantry.

Special Forces or Scout Rangers! :thumb:

Nalilito ako sa selection. Diba yung Special Forces under ng Infantry?

If your a serious student of armoured combat and tactics, what you are saying is blasphemy.

Germany in the early thirties, only have three tank divisions until the end of the 1928-1940 Blitzkrieg. German combined forces strategy during the openning of WWII revolved around "mechanized" cavalry to the dismay of Gen Heinz Guderian. Cavalry tactics in a true sense is not armored tactics but instead a totally different animal.

Auchinleck lost the tank battles of North Africa bec his disposition and employment of armor is akin to cavalry tactics supporting a main army effort.

Armored tactics in the other hand revolves around armor and its infantry components undertaking their own independent effort as opportunity presents. As a matter of fact, Gen Erwin Rommels adaptation of Armored tactics was a cross between Guderian's theories and the bavarian ski/mountain regiment tactics. It now has evolved into hunter killer tactics of today.

Cavalry tactics is aimed at shaping the disposition of the enemy not crushing it. Cavalry type missions are much more effective using helicopters than armor. That's why almost all of the cavalry units of major countries were converted into "air cavalry".

The only instance I know where cavalry was transformed into armored units was in NAZI germany, after the Polish campaign before operation barbarossa. The General staff and to Guderian's vindication have unanimously agreed that mech cavalry does not have the offensive punch to crush a determined enemy. The German Panzer Divisions have to be fully committed to Poland in order to bring swift conclusion of the campaign.

Hitler, quickly order the mech cavalry to be reorganized and retrained into panzer divisions while staff from other panzer divisions were transferred to the new panzer divisions to disseminate armored tactics. Before operation barbarossa germany have 10 tank/panzer divisions, not one single mech cavalry division was spared.

Check out some research made about guderian

Achtung Panzer- Heinz Guderian

o nga eh, wawa naman SR wala sa selection, Infantry na lang ako!

Sorry, colddeadfish! :bow:

Infantry... family tradition.

Yaberdaber, are you in the military? :crawling:

Actually no, actually I'd be the first eldest child in my family that has not joined the Army. My father's family are very big on military; a couple uncles graduated from PMA, several were officers from ROTC including my dad, and one Air Corps captain that died fighing Japs.
I'm thinking of joining US Army when I graduate from college, just as an option.

I salute you, Yaberdaber! :specool:

The Special Forces were designed as special infantry, so technically they are. :aberet:

infantry medic.. nursing stud kc eh. :aberet:

Ill go with the Aviation group.

No aircraft to fly but to guard aircraft,radars, and airport facility. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

You got that from the movie PATTON, right, Judd? :ssalute: