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eric_bean34
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Posted: 06 Aug 06 8:44 AM
just putting up with that capt. was earning my pay! grrrrrrrr(bares clenched teeth)
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Posted: 06 Aug 06 1:59 PM
 Finucane wrote
I'd say you earned you pay that day.  I know what it's like to walk in gore: 2 September 1960, Grafenwoehr, Germany.  There's a scene reminiscent of that occasion in SCHOOL OF FIRE.


Graf being a training area, and without consulting my copy of SoF (which seems to have grown legs), it must have been a short arty round?  I almost got to see something like that at the Yakima Firing Center when my infantry battalion participated in a combined arms live fire exercise (CALFEX) simulating an enemy attack on our position.  We had the entire 9th Div artillery brigade including the 8 inch guns and every compay mortar section in the battalion behind us pouring fires, including "Danger Close", into the area right ahead of us, and to top it off USAF fast movers dumping 500 pounders about mile in front.  I got to watch from the ridge above our position (because of driving the Bn Cdr around on that day) and it was very impressive.  It went on without a hitch, except an 81 mm mortar round got dropped about ten feet in front of the firing position of some guys from my company.  Fortunately they had taken their firing position seriously and it was well-constructed, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten away with mere deafness and a few minor scratches from being peppered with small bits of terrain. 
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Posted: 07 Aug 06 11:29 PM
Teuflepanzer, you and Eric got it backward. The navy is the medical, chaplin, heavy transport, and off-shore artillery divisions of the Marine Corps. Of course, the navy also has other duties. David
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Posted: 13 Nov 06 9:23 PM

I am certain that the Nazy Personelle have some thing to say about that...
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