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Iowa soldiers win Army award for their invention
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| 12.3.11
| Dar Danielson
Posted on 12/05/2011 8:27:27 AM PST by Free Vulcan
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In Iowa, if we don't have it and we can't get it, we just make it - American style.
To: Free Vulcan
Love it. This is the kind of ingenuity and “can do” spirit that made the USA great.
To: Free Vulcan
To: Joe Brower; bang_list
Winkowski and his two partners are pleased to see their invention helping other soldiers, but more importantly he says its good to see the impact the system has on the enemy. And I think its gonna make a huge impact on their mindset when they are engaging U.S. forces with these system and they are coming up against basically a wall of lead because the tremendous firepower these systems can now give machine gunners, he said. The carrier system allows a machine gunner to fire up to 500 rounds of linked ammunition.
A story to warm the hearts of gun enthusiasts everywhere.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:34:33 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Free Vulcan
What is a speed loading shoot?
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:35:49 AM PST
by
csmusaret
(The only borders Obama has closed is a bookstore.)
To: Free Vulcan
I have not seen it but what comes to mind is the cans they used in the Matrix movies for the walking gun carriages.
To: csmusaret
Like a flexible ammo feed chute, only different....
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:39:44 AM PST
by
ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: csmusaret
What is a speed loading shoot?Might have meant "chute" instead of "shoot."
To: Free Vulcan
Yes, Iowa ingenuity. Can’t tell you the number of times I watched my Dad and my Uncles make a piece of dead equipment work again. But, at that time, I thought all men had this talent.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:40:55 AM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
To: csmusaret
probably meant a speed loading “chute”
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:41:02 AM PST
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)
To: Free Vulcan
Necessity is the Mother of invention!
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:45:23 AM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: CIDKauf
Army is going to need a lot more than that to beat Navy this weekend.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:46:32 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: RoosterRedux
Yes look at this sentence:
So right then we new we had something pretty special.Uses new instead of knew. I think whoever wrote this story is illiterate.
I think we can safely assume it wasn't one of the Iowa boys writing it.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:46:36 AM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
To: Free Vulcan
“...where both did some work on farms.”
When give a choice, ‘farm-kid’ gets the nod everytime. I’ve worked with a wide swath of humanity and farm-kids are the hardest working and creative workers who generally have no use for emotional drama.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:47:03 AM PST
by
mad puppy
(Spare me your line of crap...I'm voting for Newt.)
“It’s a cluster ...k. Marines shouldn’t be sitting around filling out forms for equipment they should already have.”
Gunny Hiway.
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posted on
12/05/2011 8:55:44 AM PST
by
white17x
To: Free Vulcan
There’s a little monthly magazine just for this stuff, Farm Show. Its just stuffed full of this kind of things, some not so good and some great, but all interesting.
This thought process must come from all day row crop farming and all winter with not much to do.
Whatever its called or caused by, its great!
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:00:44 AM PST
by
X-spurt
To: CIDKauf
...and MacGyver is the father!
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:02:38 AM PST
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: Free Vulcan
See my next post for another invention that done on the field of Afghanistan.
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posted on
12/05/2011 9:17:17 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Free Vulcan
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12/05/2011 9:17:24 AM PST
by
A. Morgan
(Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
To: Free Vulcan
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12/05/2011 9:20:01 AM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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