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Room for improvement in newest weapons
Stars and Stripes ^
| European edition, Sunday, July 13, 2003
| Mark Oliva
Posted on 07/14/2003 2:24:14 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: Tailback
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posted on
07/14/2003 8:35:38 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: Tailback
My last ship I had PLGRs and commercial units for use in our ship's boats. I agree with everything you said about them, especially the headache of the special lithium batteries. I hated the PLGRs.
I figured out everything I needed to know to use the commercial sets in 15 minutes with no manual just by playing with them. No way you could that with a PLGR.
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posted on
07/14/2003 9:35:35 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: GATOR NAVY
Hey chief, I checked out your BIO and I love that quote "20 years service in the Navy, never drunk on duty, never sober on liberty." How's duty in Japan? I've always wanted a tour in Asia but Istanbul was as close as I've got.
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posted on
07/14/2003 9:48:55 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: Tailback
I like it enough I've been here 13 years. Married a local girl 10 years ago. Next year I'll be retireing and coming back to the States.
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posted on
07/14/2003 9:58:42 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: El Gato
I was saying Duh to the fact they actually put something so stupid into that article. One would think personel trained on the grenade launcher would know it was unsafe to tote around with one in the chamber. Big common sense issue.
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posted on
07/15/2003 4:06:53 AM PDT
by
EuroFrog
(Damn proud of my deployed soldier!)
To: Tailback
The military's lightweight PLGR GPS is 4 times the size of my personal GPS I bought with my own money. Have you tested your GPS against EMP? :-) A decent air burst about 20 miles up would turn that and most civilian electronic devices into paper weights.
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posted on
07/15/2003 12:24:07 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Tailback
"20 years service in the Navy, never drunk on duty, never sober on liberty." Just a heads up... my dad was a career Sergeant Major and lived by the same creed. he retired and it took him 10 years to die from cirrhosis of the liver. He had built no outside interests and had nothing but liberty.
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posted on
07/15/2003 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: glorgau
Actually, that's my tag, and while I appreciate your concern, it's not a literal description of my life-at least not since I got married 10 years ago.
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posted on
07/15/2003 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: glorgau
And do you think that the piece of junk PLGR built by the lowest bidder will do better? Which enemy force will use EMP against the US military? If we're fighting someone using EMP against us I'll have worse problems than having a GPS that doesn't work. Besides, I can still read a map.
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posted on
07/24/2003 2:59:17 PM PDT
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Tailback
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