Thank you Gentlemen for your confidence in these old brain cells
Its the M563 fuze S-2.
Now my Mortar story. Long story cause I tend to ramble.
My "B" billet in the Corps was Career Planning. Had no desire to be a DI and didn't have the looks for recruiting
Anyway, for my "break from the fleet" they send me to a grunt unit. Anyway one day I'm up of the OP, conducting career planning interviews with the Bn mortar FOs. We have been at Ft A.P. Hill for 2 weeks already. They have been on the hill for a week of it. Cold, wet, nice breeze blowing and they have ate nothing but MREs the whole week. Bn Cdr didn't believe in hot chow in the field.
The perfect time for me to show up with a "Hey Devil dog, Lets talk about reenlistment."
Sitting there, watching the FOs, talking about staying in, (calling a few missions myself). The S-3 shows up and they do a 81 Plt mission for him. The rounds are all over the place. For some reason I said something about them "Shooting like S*it". S-3 says "SSgt, You think you can get them to shoot better?" and some smart remark about us arty guys thinking we are "Gods" and grunts don't know anything.
Go down to the 81 position, talk to the Plt Sgt, A Arty FDC Gunny who had been there about a month, and then hit the gunline. First thing I ask them. Do you guys Boresite these things? Yes
How? Test target. Show me please. All tubes do it, I check procedures and then look through the sights. Every one of them is off. From 5-40mils. So I gather them all around one tube and ask.
Ok, Now what do you do
Set out our aiming post and start shooting.
No, What do you do with the error you found with your boresite.
. "Nothing"
You don't adjust your pantel onto the target then slip the scales"
No,
Do you notify the Gunny so he can do individual corrections to make up for that error?
No
Do you keep the data on the gun so you can add/subtract that error?
No, we don't do anything. They told us at school not to fool with the sights because we might break them. And boresighting isn't that important anyway, but you have to go through the motions because its in the manual.
Within an hour the Gunny and I had them locked on.
And you wonder why we don't trust grunts with big guns
