Posted on 07/16/2005 12:24:11 PM PDT by TADSLOS
Don't know if they're the same, or not. I found a post when doing a little googling that seemed to indicate that this is superior to the one on Stryker.
Nice pics, btw. Good find.
Anyone ever figure out what made those woven plastic fiber sandbags stick together like old gooey rubber bands?
Hated those things.
My old unit had a slot for a Warrant Officer in each battery, but it was curiously vacant for as long as anyone could remember.
I don't think I ever heard what the slot duties entailed.
Sounds like dogs harrassing a lumbering opponent.
“We’ll have a total of 245 systems in the hands of Soldiers by early spring,” said Lt. Col. Kevin. P. Stoddard, Product Manager for Crew Served Weapons at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. Stoddard explained that an urgent material requirement provides a way to develop a product like CROWS because it’s based on an operational wartime need.
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40 years ago, exactly,
...t'was the newest of the new...
1st CAV's 1st Days in Vietnam:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)
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Thanks for the ping!
Anyone ever figure out what made those woven plastic fiber sandbags stick together like old gooey rubber bands? Hated those things.
A Warrant Officer was needed to keep the new Lt straight?
The new nylon bags stuck together because the edges of the strips would lock together.
Then when you peeled the bags apart, you'd hear the things tearing, sometimes you'd get cut.
The nylon bags didn't like being hit with much of anything, they'd fray in a weird way, but they didn't rot like the burlap bags.
Dunno, we never had anyone filling the Warrant Officer slot.
I'd once asked what the duties of the slot were, and everyone looked like I'd just asked a great universal mystery.
*chuckle*
The nylon bags didn't like being hit with much of anything, they'd fray in a weird way, but they didn't rot like the burlap bags.
Dunno, no-one ever filled the slot.
My old artillery battery seemed to go through NCO's though.
Of course, this was during the Clinton years, so the turnover rate of our top six was horrific.
We ended up having an open slot for a supply NCO, as ours got transferred to a 'better' slot.
That was an 'unngh' moment.
The only Warrant Officer I'd ever seen in our entire Battalion was attached to the medics.
Still scratching my head over it.
We ended up having an open slot for a supply NCO, as ours got transferred to a 'better' slot.
That was an 'unngh' moment.
I know!
Took us two years to find a replacement.
There were two people I always made friends with and always showed the greatest respect to – no matter their personality type. I might snub the CO, XO, Ops, etc – but never the Company Clerk or Supply Sargent. This two held the really necessary power.
That E-5 needs a dang medal. Probably saved more lives than anyone.
Our XO was cool, he understood the 'unwritten' rule of artillery live fire.
That being that we leave the barn with full ammo load and return to the barn with zero ammo.
Our Cap was one of those types who'd insist on having everyone sign for ammo even though the enemy is appearing over the nearby hill.
He would also do whatever he could to screw over the troops just because he could.
The XO and teh admin types would do what they could to circumvent the Cap's hissy fits.
Our Cap was well and thoroughly hated.
Our Cap was well and thoroughly hated.
Every AT up at Drum we made certain his MILES gear went off.
One day he got 'snipered' at least twenty times.
He'd gotten us declared dead for 72 hours due to his insistance on getting into a 'mine is bigger than yours' match with HQ.
We ended up in checkfire for three days and declared 'summarily dead' for the wargame for three days.
They'd issued us bayonets, and we were sorely tempted.
But we contented ourselves with setting off his MILES gear.
It sort of gave him a preview of coming attractions?
LOL, yes.
If it took minimal effort on his part to reward a soldier, but three hours of intense aperwork and miles of wandering for same paperwork to screw someone over, the Cap would go out of his way to do the 'screw over the troops' bit.
THEN he had the nerve to scream and whine about not being able to maintain battery strength, and complained about the low morale.
*chuckle*
I hear tell he has been given a dead end position in some backwater now.
THEN he had the nerve to scream and whine about not being able to maintain battery strength, and complained about the low morale.
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