i just hate it when that happens...
Posted on 06/26/2014 12:33:22 PM PDT by aimhigh
In video I linked above, it says it hit a tree first, bounced off the ground then hit the house.
Never on time or on target unless a bar of gold is next to him.
“What I want to know is if “cannon” is a proper term for a howitzer? I thought they were called “guns”.”
Cannon is correct but out of date. More proper would be artillery (or gun) or more exact howitzer.
Hell, I wished we had been drinking. Give us an excuse.
I guess the best answer would be if you own your own 105 howitzer, you can call it and the ammo any dang thing you want.
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you own your own
that looks wrong but sounds right...
Nobody injured, thank goodness.
You should have told them that this was how Robert Goddard & Werner Von Braun got started! (I only launch zem! Vehr they come down? Not my department!)
“I guess the best answer would be if you own your own 105 howitzer, you can call it and the ammo any dang thing you want.”
And who would dare to argue ... at least to your face!
I smell a court martial.
The good news is that, statistically speaking, this most likely won't happen to Mr Kelley again, so he can probably breath a sigh of relief there.
i just hate it when that happens...
My thoughts as well. It’s them dam trunions again! ;-)
That sounds like quite a scene. What ever happened to that car?
Awwwwhellsbells! I was a scout...I radioed FDC of the target I wanted hit, and they gave my info to the gun line. It could be the lay of the gun, survey/meteorology error, or a windage/ elevation error.
FReeper oh8eleven would have a better grip on what could have gone wrong.
My answer: Army Artillery!
BTW....an artillery “projectile” is indeed a shell. That shell encases a timer/fuse, high explosives, white phosphorus, flares with chutes ( illumination ) mines, hell all kinds of crap...Google it...too much to mention, and every damned shell is funner than hell to shoot! Teeth rattlin’, head duckin’, fun.
Good evening, OO!
Heck that’s nothing...
The Walmart parking lot in Lawton (outside Ft Sill) IIRC still has the patch in it from when a 155 shell landed on it.
Then there is the farmer to the east of Ft Sill who found three MLRS rockets sticking up in his pasture back in ‘93 or ‘94.
There’s very little “town” around there.......
friend of mine was in the 1st ANGLICO 69-70... called in just about everything but 16" guns
Gramps gave me the car when he died, with a hole in one door and a big bulge in the other ( I think it was a grandfatherly way of saying “You dumb shiite. Deal with it and never forget.”) I drove it in high school and everyone looked at me like I was my own granpa. I left for the service in 1969 and the car sat for five years. When I got home, the motor wouldn’t turn. Sold it for decent money and bought a ‘68 Shelby Cobra fastback that needed a lot of work and I WISH I STILL HAD THAT HEAVY MONSTER. Oh, well. I guess Gramps got back at me after all.
HA!!!
At Naval Gunfire School, spring of ‘87, my class had the privilege of calling fire for the USS Missouri, prior to decommission; I think she retired in the early ‘90s. 16 inch cannon rocks! Mighty Mo! It’s all 5” guns, and missiles now:-(
Tried my damnedest to get to 2nd ANGLICO at LeJeune, but the slots to jump school were going to reservists....they could spend only x amount of days on active duty.
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