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To: Little Bill
"Angle of impact and a few other things have some implications."

They certainly do. When I was at Ft. Riley, our Battalion Commander had a training (inert) HEAT round that had been recovered from the impact area. It was in generally very good shape except that the nose tube had been bent severely. He had it mounted so that the bent portion angled down, resembling a droopy male organ. It was then painted yellow and identified as the "LD" award. At our monthly officer calls, the award would be bestowed upon the officer in the battalion that had screwed up the worst in the preceding month. There were many implications to winning the LD award!

66 posted on 05/02/2008 1:50:54 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

On my last tour in VN I was a grunt in an AC unit, the trackies said that if you got a hit less or greater than 30 degrees you just got a splash, this is from an RPG. They said that if you move and groove, the chances of getting dead were small.


67 posted on 05/02/2008 2:23:46 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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