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Iowa soldiers win Army award for their invention
Radio Iowa ^ | 12.3.11 | Dar Danielson

Posted on 12/05/2011 8:27:27 AM PST by Free Vulcan

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To: Free Vulcan

Looks like they've been watching Predator, Terminator, etc.

It's a continuous feed device for what looks like a SAW.

21 posted on 12/05/2011 9:21:01 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Free Vulcan

I have two of these backpacks and they are great!

Sucking water sucks.

This thing will spray the water into yer parched throat, clean up a small hazmat spill or irrigate a wound.

Luv it!

http://www.geigerrig.com/index.html


22 posted on 12/05/2011 9:22:36 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: USMCPOP
Thank you! I posted a small one. Here's the large one:


23 posted on 12/05/2011 9:23:04 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: mad puppy

We farmboys were raised by fathers/grandfathers who knew how to repair equipment creatively with the materials/tools on hand. You work hard and fast and learn quickly that temper tantrums do nothing useful.


24 posted on 12/05/2011 9:23:10 AM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: Free Vulcan

“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”

If they weren’t so anti-life, anti-American and anti-gun, Big Media would have taught their reporters and editors by now that you don’t load bullets into a gun.


25 posted on 12/05/2011 9:26:28 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Free Vulcan
Looks like someone had already built one. They just aren't getting them into the field:

http://www.tyrtactical.com/products/details/backpacks/mico-light-and-heavy-machine-gunners-assault-pack/

It's not cheap: $4,000.

26 posted on 12/05/2011 9:28:14 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Free Vulcan

“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”

No, Dar. Sergeant Winkowski did not say this.


27 posted on 12/05/2011 9:30:41 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: stefanbatory

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.org/index.php?topic=37307.0

More info with cool pics.


28 posted on 12/05/2011 9:32:14 AM PST by XXXoholic
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Looks like a fun rig for some weekend shooting. $;-)

The big pic has me scratching my head a bit -- the MG the soldier is carrying looks like a SAW, but the rounds in the feed belt appear to be .308. Are M240s being issued with SAW-type forends?

7.62 would make more sense in another way: The belt-chute for that caliber could readily be scavenged from minigun systems; I don't know of any such assembly for the smaller .5.56 round.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

29 posted on 12/05/2011 9:35:16 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Free Vulcan
Very well done, Sergeant Winkowski,
I am forced to admit that there is now one excellent light infantry device that the US Marines did not invent, and should rapidly adopt.
TWB
30 posted on 12/05/2011 9:43:29 AM PST by TWhiteBear (Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


31 posted on 12/05/2011 9:49:32 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Free Vulcan
Now they need one to feed shotgun shells for urban combat.
32 posted on 12/05/2011 9:50:19 AM PST by ryan71 (Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
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To: Free Vulcan

I want one.


33 posted on 12/05/2011 11:41:36 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: csmusaret

No spelling skillz, or spellcheck fail?


34 posted on 12/05/2011 11:44:26 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Free Vulcan
"In Iowa, if we don't have it and we can't get it, we just make it - American style."

Has more to do with "farm boys" and rural work/innovation ethic than Iowa, per se.

35 posted on 12/05/2011 12:31:12 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: w1andsodidwe
Uses new instead of knew. I think whoever wrote this story is illiterate.

Sadly, that's what's become passable from our nation's universities. Is it any wonder we're on the decline?

36 posted on 12/05/2011 12:58:04 PM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Any Fate But Submission

It’s reminiscent of Churchill and the tank, and the GI who suggested during the Normandy invasion that the put dozer blades on tanks to deal with the hedgerows.


37 posted on 12/05/2011 1:02:15 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: nuke rocketeer

Several years ago one of those ‘farm-boys’ I worked with told me a very telling story. He lived 10 (ish) miles from town and had a date with a particular gal who lived there. Before and after school he got his list done, got all cleaned up, jumped into his truck and nothing... Don’t recall what failed, but it was dead. He called his dad who was still working, desperate for options, and got a little help with diagnosis, but that was it. He apparently canabalized one of the tractors and rigged his ride. The truck sounded like crap and would only go about 20 mph, so he was late. When he got home his old man about killed him and he was up a few more hours putting the tractor back together.

The only thing he’d say about the date of 20+ years ago, was that his girl friend was impressed with the effort he’d gone to, and to that day, he claimed it was the best date of his life. He told that story to about 5 of us, all of which were laughing so hard we hurt.


38 posted on 12/05/2011 1:14:40 PM PST by mad puppy (Spare me your line of crap...I'm voting for Newt.)
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To: Free Vulcan

PING FOR LATER


39 posted on 12/05/2011 1:23:11 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: nuke rocketeer
"You work hard and fast and learn quickly that temper tantrums do nothing useful."

I don't know about that. Dealing with recalcitrant farm equipment can give one a real edge up on creative invective.

40 posted on 12/05/2011 2:31:14 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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