Posted on 12/05/2015 7:06:29 PM PST by RaceBannon
Hilarious RB and Semper Fi from an old Army guy and Merry Christmas!
Excellent clever JC poster.
saved it pass it on
Thanks, sent to my pops. USMC,65-69, 3rd division honorably discharged, combat veteran. Most unassuming, modest, humble guy I think I might know. He is such a Mick mench.
Merry Christmas to all!
This strange creature was a tracked vehicle with six 106mm recoilless rifles all pointing in one direction. It is worth looking up as a curio - the military equivalent of a platypus.
What’s a tipsy?
Brings back memories of sitting around camp late night with fellow Corpsmen and Marines, re-writting Christmas Carols. Funny Stuff! Semper Fi!
Climbed inside an Ontos once. I’m 6’2” and that was a cramped little sucker.
Ontos - Think of a ‘lowered’ Bobcat skid-steer with armor plate and a 283 Chevy V-8.
Six 106 recoil-less rifles, each with its own .50 cal spotter rifle bore-sighted and loaded with a WP-Tracer with identical ballistics to the 106 round.
These 106s could be loaded with HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank), HE, Hep-T, Flechettes (’Beehive’ - so called for the buzzing sound these hundreds of mini-darts made).
Very accurate! We watched an Ontos and an M-48 tank have a shooting match at a tree. The Ontos won handily!
Very thin armor. Light weight (compared to a tank), able to go places a tank would bog down. Pick a ‘hull defilade’ firing position, shoot-n-scoot!
Lots of firepower in a small package!
Is a ontos also known as mighty might? My dad scrap book has similar looking machines in pictures, I think, and “the mighty might” is labeled by the snaps.
Thanks in advance.
Ontos
Amazing that an 88,000 pound armored vehicle could swim so well.
Slightly different in optics, lol.
Thanks.
Many years ago, I think it was Howard Fast, the former communist, who wrote an anti-Vietnam short SciFi story entitled “The General Killed an Angel” (in Vietnam).
It was a nasty piece of work but was the featured cover of a SciFi paperback I have somewhere around the house.
Just because Santa was dressed in “red” doesn’t mean we have to kill him. Just take him in for an interrogation. I want to know where he gets all those toys and how he fits them all into his sled.
Image if we could pack a C-130 like that. We’d crush ISIS before New Years.
I dunno, I was 77-81, air winger
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