Greek Cypriot soldier here

[Chocks away!]

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 8)

 

[P38 Pilot]

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!

 

[Nonskimmer]

Good stuff. Don't go deaf.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Oh yeah. Where your helmet and ear plugs whenever you get ready to fire artillery!

 

[Wildcat]

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.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Awesome Wildcat! You have any pics of your service? Seeing someone fire a machine gun is pretty cool!

 

[Wildcat]

Have alook at "Wildcat's Deployment Pics" in the personal gallery thread. Lots of photos that I took while in the Gulf in 2003.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Welcome Chocks.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Awesome! Ill go check them out!

 

[Chocks away!]

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.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Hmm...Interesting.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well keep up that good tradition.

 

[Nonskimmer]

Apparently our unit has a certain reputation.

In the good sense I hope.

 

[P38 Pilot]

I guess that is good, right?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

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.

 

[Wildcat]

Yeah I've actually heard about that Adler, mostly from problems with Patriot if I remember correctly. In Oz the only real bad reputation any of the forces (mainly the Army) get is the way its people are treated.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

No I think the AA guys are just trigger happy.

 

[Wildcat]

Ha, I was an AA guy and alot of us were trigger happy! Never fired at our own though..

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

That is a good thing.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Oh man! Our own guys getting shot down by our own weapons is just sad.