Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: aimhigh

There was a thread on here years ago where a tube artillery outfit at Ft. Hood somehow got 180 degrees out on the azimuth during a night fire exercise.

More than one projo landed in some guy’s back 40 a few miles off post but I don’t think anything was damaged.

(Other than some folk’s careers).


26 posted on 06/26/2014 12:57:18 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: SnuffaBolshevik

I wisht I had a nickel for every time the Massachusetts National Guard at Otis shelled the Cape Cod canal due to an azimuth error. They don’t fire artillery there anymore. I spent 16 weeks in Sill, and the folks around the base used to complain about the thunder. Where I live now is a few miles from (Fort) Devens, and when the Army did artillery drills there, you hear and feel it for miles.


104 posted on 06/26/2014 5:05:59 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson