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Mickey Richaud

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THAT'S gonna leave a mark!
 
Maybe this guy is a relative of the bullet-proof glass guy! See the other thread!! :laugh:
 
So, if he's gonna stop shooting them on his property, whose property is he gonna shoot them on?
 
This is sooo familiar... :devilgrin:
 
Had a canon ball go through your house lately Doc?
 
Well, I have had them shot at me & my "hootch"......
 
Those were mortars, Tony.
 
DrEntropy said:
Those were mortars, Tony.
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Some were artillery, Doc....remember, I'm an old Artilleryman!
 
Tony,

What guns were you on. I am another Artilleryman myself. M198 and M109A6 Paladin here. Our Flatdeck 8" guns got replaced with towed 8" and replaced again with the M198.
 
Heavy stuff from the old 175 & 8" through older towed 155's in Vietnam & M109's, M109-A1's & M198's after the 'Nam....even did some time with Nike Hercules...went over to Desert Storm w/M109's * 8"'s (one of the best units in Desert Storm was an 8" National Guard unit attached to us from Tennessee).

But, I'm really an old pre-FADAC guy!
 
Tony,

You can laugh at me now. My guard job now is Ballistic Meterology. Thats right I am now the artillery weatherman. Gonna do this until I can draw my retirement.
 
I remember way back when we did MET messages by hand - no computers just mental calculations....launched balloons, took readings, did all the calculations by hand to apply to firing data......but, then, I retired from the Army in '93.
 
Still flyin balloons and can do an LSOB without thinkin. yea, the computer most of the work but i can read the nomographs and do the calculations, bit rusty though.

Supposed to upgrade to the new profiler met system this year, training in Feb 2010. And to top it all off I have to learn Survey. The Army is merging met and survey together.
 
Talking about "old school", some of you Artillery men might enjoy this vid I just got from my boy from a competition they had at Fort Henry (Canada)...The vid is pretty boring until about the 5:00 mark, and while they lagged in the first round, they did win 2:1 by the end!
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Hey Tony, I started out in Nike Ajax in Pittsburg then moved to Hercules when it was introduced. Man, that was a long time ago.
 
Ooof... reminds me I did a photo story on the closing of the last Bomarc site. Can't even remember where it was.
 
Neat film - but, nobody walks in front of a tube like that Canadian judge did when the Marine shoved the wad all the way through the tube!

Ah, Don, survey school....Stick, Stake, Stuck.....the old method!
 
Caught that too did you Tony! I thought that was a major gaff, by a judge too :eeek: !! Ducked under the barrel going and then just sauntered by it on the way back! :rolleyes:
PS: That's my boy in command of the gun crew!
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