Seabee Ingenuity Creates New OIF Vehicle Armor

Navy News Stand ^ | May 4, 2004 | Chief Journalist Siegfried Bruner

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

  U. S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74

NMCB-74

U.S. NAVY SEABEES

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Eternal Father

 

Lord, stand beside the men who build,
And give them courage, strength, and skill.
O grant them peace of heart and mind,
And comfort loved ones left behind.
Lord, hear our prayers for all Seabees,
Where'er they be on land or sea.
                          ~ R. J. Dietrich (Alt. verses, 1960)

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

PING

[T'wit]

May the ingenuity continue. Whoever can figure out how to pre-detonate those roadside bombs, especially at the exact moment when one of our Islamofascist friends is planting it, should get a lottery-sized award from the government.

[dennisw]

YANKEE INGENUITY!!

From the internet: 

One of my favorite movies is the 1986 "Heartbreak Ridge," starring Clint Eastwood as an old-school Marine who has to make efficient fighting men out of a bunch of misfits.

Clint Eastwood's character, Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway's mantra is that a Marine, to survive in combat, must "adapt, improvise, overcome."

[T'wit]

I wonder if we could get hold of those famous 72 virgins and record their mating calls. Then we use it to bait this big old jihadi-sized mousetrap...

[BigMacGOP]

Hoorah!

[dennisw]

One of Clint's best. Even Mario Van Peebles couldn't ruin it.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[RebelBanker]

ping

[Blood of Tyrants]

SeaBees - Can do.

[Fixit]

Bump

[Belisaurius]

Sounds just like that Sargeant in Normandy who, with a little inspired metalwork, made every Sherman tank into a 'bocageclipper'.

[taxcontrol]

I know folks working on this. They are using a powerfull broad spectrum short duration radio pulse. If activated near 50 ft or less an IED that has a blasting cap, it will pre-detonate the blasting cap. Setting off the IED ahead of time.

[Darksheare]

Cool.

[T'wit]

The Brits developed all sorts of weird war machines in WWI. I think I recall an armored vehicle mounted with a giant metal flail. The vehicle would flail away at the road in front of it, exploding mines. It could clear a path through minefields. I don't suppose that would work for electronically-detonated devices, but it might disable them anyway.

[B4Ranch]

"Can do" is the SeaBee motto.

[jjackson]

Good news.

[blackie]

Seebee ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!