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To: Cannoneer No. 4
"Target down range, sabot"
"up!
"identified"
"Fire !"
"on the way"
"target! Load HE, repeat.
"up!"
"on the way!"
"target! cease fire"
"target T72 destroyed, scanning for targets"

Boooya! Threadheads!


9 posted on 12/08/2003 5:11:54 PM PST by ChadGore (No blood for ratings! This means YOU AOL-Time-Warner-Turner-CNN)
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To: ChadGore
"Target down range, sabot"

M1 fire commands must have changed. Aren't all targets down range? Back in the Pleistocene era of diesel-engined tanks it was "GUNNER, SABOT, TANK!" or "GUNNER, HEAT, BMP!" or GUNNER, COAX, TROOPS!"

"target! Load HE, repeat.

Sounds like Redleg talk. "Target, right tank, FIRE!" is what we would have said, if we said anything at all. At that range the TC would likely have shot the second T-72 himself, using his TC Override.

16 posted on 12/08/2003 5:40:10 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Old soldiers never die. They just go to the commissary parking lot and regroup.)
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