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[Professional Engineer]

....sigh...I might switch to Cavalry in East Arkansas...

Engineers. We build stuff, then blow it up!

[Professional Engineer]

WTC pic, right?

Hiya Sam. I think it is.

[Professional Engineer]

1949 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron OH, astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)

AstronautenSpankenTruppen!

[Darksheare]

I loved artillery, the thump of the blast through your feet chest and head, the smell of the propellant smoke, it's addictive.
But everyone knows that 13Bravos "just aren't right" at all.
;-)

[SAMWolf]

I always liked the Quad 50's on the M-16

[SAMWolf]

:-) Definately.

[SAMWolf]

Artillery - The Nine Mile Snipers. :-)

[Darksheare]

Oh yeah.
Almost got my hands on one of the Avenger HUmvee mounted systems.
Twin 30mm for brush clearing would have been sweet.
The unit that owned it came back for it though and found that they didn't have to tow it, that I'd gotten it started.
;-)

[Darksheare]

Someone called us "Thunder Chuckers" once.
Wasn't sure whether we should have been honored or vaguely insulted but twistedly prideful of it.

[colorado tanker]

12 O'Clock High is one of my all-time faves. It's also a darn fine study of how to motivate people in an organization to do their best, in the military or otherwise.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for the post. Reminds me how it wasn't very long ago that Canada was a valued member of the community of English-speaking free nations, ready to fight fascism and communism. Of course, that was before they Frenchified the country to keep Quebec from seceding. Not worth it, IMHO.

[colorado tanker]

1949 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron OH, astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)

AstronautenSpankenTruppen!

Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces in the sky,
Be with them always in the air,
In dark'ning storms or sunlight fair.
O, Hear us when we lift our prayer,<
For those in peril in the air.

Amen!

[Liberty Valance]

I thought this might be the right place to post a link for the 1966-68 US-Ethiopian mapping mission. The son of one of the mission members (a close personal friend) put together an unbelievably detailed account and amazing website of these activities as a tribute to his father. His father was a fighter pilot in WW2 and Korea.

http://www.ethi-usmappingmission.com/4436.html

[SAMWolf]

It's sure fun to get to play with other guys equipment.

[SAMWolf]

Not really an "action flick" but like you said a "darn good study"

[SAMWolf]

I grew up learning about Canada in WWI and WWII. Had a lot of respect for them, today though it's really hard to hold them in any kind of esteem.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for sharing the pictures from Poland ms_68

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the link.

This is something I had never heard of before.

[Darksheare]

Yeah.
However, it is embarrassing when they come back for their equipment, and you're in the Avenger turret spinning around and laughing insanely.