Timetable of Modern Battefield?

[Herrmannek]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that average officer have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, private little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

[Marmot1]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

[Javehn]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

Who is a good boy and posts his information from movies , Marmot1 ?
"I will tell you the answer , if you answer me to one question . What was average life expectency of US first Lt. that dropped in Lz at 65 ? " . "Waste those Mother Fuuckers" . ****y movie , by the way , Tomy L. Jones could find a better movie to be in ;)

[Operation Ivy]

I got this info from the History Channel a while back

During WWII somebody who served about 2-4 years saw about 40 days of combat.

By the time vietnam came men served for 18months and saw about 280 days of combat

Not exactly times but i try :D

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I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

Who is a good boy and posts his information from movies , Marmot1 ?
"I will tell you the answer , if you answer me to one question . What was average life expectency of US first Lt. that dropped in Lz at 65 ? " . "Waste those Mother Fuuckers" . ****y movie , by the way , Tomy L. Jones could find a better movie to be in ;)

same goes for samuel l. jackson.

[FDF_Hemppis]

If my memory serves me correctly, those times are calculated to be the average "life-times" of various military personnel starting from a contact to the enemy.

I live 7min, or so I'm told ;)

[Herrmannek]

If my memory serves me correctly, those times are calculated to be the average "life-times" of various military personnel starting from a contact to the enemy.

I live 7min, or so I'm told ;)

Who are you?

[FDF_Hemppis]

If my memory serves me correctly, those times are calculated to be the average "life-times" of various military personnel starting from a contact to the enemy.

I live 7min, or so I'm told ;)

Who are you?

You mean what am I?

If I understand correctly, since US has somewhat different organisation, the closest thing (in the US army) might be a forward observer.
I'm not sure if FO is correct, I'm the guy who orders and directs indirect fire...

[Herrmannek]

If my memory serves me correctly, those times are calculated to be the average "life-times" of various military personnel starting from a contact to the enemy.

I live 7min, or so I'm told ;)

Who are you?

You mean what am I?

If I understand correctly, since US has somewhat different organisation, the closest thing (in the US army) might be a forward observer.
I'm not sure if FO is correct, I'm the guy who orders and directs indirect fire...

Yes this is what I tried to ask :)

[Herrmannek]

BTW.. Is that few minutes long expentancys doesn't make you feel :| ?

[FDF_Hemppis]

No, not really. Since those are just numbers calculated from expected casualties in case of an all-out war with a certain neighbouring country, hence they don't project the actual outcome.

And in that 7mins I'll be able to send our enemies a *warm* welcome, many times over :D

[to free the oppressed]

I got this info from the History Channel a while back

During WWII somebody who served about 2-4 years saw about 40 days of combat.

By the time vietnam came men served for 18months and saw about 280 days of combat

Not exactly times but i try :D
I remember that episode it was pretty good.

[UkrainianAmerican]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

Who is a good boy and posts his information from movies , Marmot1 ?
"I will tell you the answer , if you answer me to one question . What was average life expectency of US first Lt. that dropped in Lz at 65 ? " . "Waste those Mother Fuuckers" . ****y movie , by the way , Tomy L. Jones could find a better movie to be in ;)
Hey I loved it when the madafaka got wasted!!!

[Operation Ivy]

I got this info from the History Channel a while back

During WWII somebody who served about 2-4 years saw about 40 days of combat.

By the time vietnam came men served for 18months and saw about 280 days of combat

Not exactly times but i try :D
I remember that episode it was pretty good.

Yup the episode about the Huey woot

[wholagun]

I knew a guy that was in Canadian armour and he was telling me that his expected time in battle was 17 min. He actually got a little clock and set the timer for 17min so that if he goes to combat, he'll set the clock for 17min and if it goes off he'll know he did better then expected.

Ahh thats why dimplomacy all the way for me :)

[Rantanplan]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

Who is a good boy and posts his information from movies , Marmot1 ?
"I will tell you the answer , if you answer me to one question . What was average life expectency of US first Lt. that dropped in Lz at 65 ? " . "Waste those Mother Fuuckers" . ****y movie , by the way , Tomy L. Jones could find a better movie to be in ;)

same goes for samuel l. jackson.

And the guy from Memento :(

[Marmot1]

I have friend who was studying for one year on WAT(Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna==Military Technical Academy with is kind of mix betwen West Point & MIT) , he resigned for personal reasons. He told me that they were learning about estimated times to death of variety equipment and people in on battlefield in full scale conflict.. ie: he said that officers have something around 2 to 3 hours of life on full scale battlefield, privates little more... He doesn't remember mutch to say nothing(he left school 4 or 5 years ago and he isn't related to military anymore) so I'm curious if anyone know what are times for tankers, planes, radiooperators, machineguners etc?

I heard that for 2nd Lieutnant in Vietnam it was like 17 or 18 minutes of firefight...

Who is a good boy and posts his information from movies , Marmot1 ?
"I will tell you the answer , if you answer me to one question . What was average life expectency of US first Lt. that dropped in Lz at 65 ? " . "Waste those Mother Fuuckers" . ****y movie , by the way , Tomy L. Jones could find a better movie to be in ;)
Be so kind and deliver something more informative... So far you contributed nothing to this topic, I at least tried. And judging from other members answer I was not so wrong since nobody posted lifetime expectancy exceeding 17 minutes so far...