edit: Mentioning an officer billet (Bde S-4) and common sense in the same sentence. ROFLMAO. What was I thinking? Officers/common sense yea right. Present WAB company excluded of course
Good move on that last line...it saved you.
105mm APERS-T story
I was at IOAC, we went out for artillery day. Sat in the bleachers and listened to an FA major call us grunts a bunch of dummies, King of Battle, blah, blah, blah. Same crap we got from the aviation, engineers and armor majors. Behind him is a M102 w/ crew. His speech is punctuated with them firing hi/lo, smoke rounds, etc. Remember, we are all captains and about a third of us had at least had a mortar platoon. We are not overly impressed and he gets annoyed.
He then calls out to the gun crew prpeare the APERS. They brought the round out on a frickin' pillow! The FA guys in our class are all snickering at this point cause they know what's about to happen. The FA Major points out the infantry sillouettes about 100 meters in front of said gun. Theyt do all of the fire commands and he has a big crap eating grin on his face as he looks at us and then smirks, knowing he going to show us lowly earth pigs the true God of Battle. BANG goes the gun and we all watch as the tracer zings between the targets, hit a mound and ricochets into the impact area. We all start laughing and he never knows why. Gun captain looked sheepish and the FA captians in our group looked embarassed.
We grunts may be stupid but we know how to set a fuze!
Back to the thread...
About halfway through the MDMP I would point out to the FSO and S3 that the FA battalion had a service battery, not a service group w/ an organic trans battalion and ammo group.
This idea is about rubble bouncing, not effects on target.
Shared hydraulic system, huh?
Wonder what the MTBMF is on it and what kind of PLL they have on hand? Hope the supporting unit has a LOT of cherry juice!