[frankenMonkey]

I was never around artillery, couldn’t tell ya!

[ErnBatavia]

Back in the 80’s when we bought our home here in the Coachella Valley (The Little San Bernardino mountains separate us from Twentynine Palms MCB), “The Stumps” was strictly an artillery base - often during nighttime exercises, we could see flashes and hear rumbles....from at least forty miles as the crow flies.