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1 posted on 08/21/2004 3:34:35 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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name it Bun Bun jr.


2 posted on 08/21/2004 3:35:50 PM PDT by coconutt2000
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Could you picture sKerry operating this thing??? He couldn't even handle a grenade! ha Seriously though, I am very proud of our troops, they are doing a great job!!


3 posted on 08/21/2004 3:39:36 PM PDT by Ros42
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To: Cannoneer No. 4; TEXOKIE; xzins; Alamo-Girl; blackie; SandRat; Calpernia; SAMWolf; prairiebreeze; ..
        1st Marine Division
        11th Marines home page link displaying the 11th Marines emblem     
 
    ~* 1st Battalion - First In Excellence
                                                                                                    
 
    Bad news for the Fallujah bad guys, bang!

4 posted on 08/21/2004 3:39:41 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (No, brave, free, reporter in Iraq, reading the daily AP news wires - that is *not* "ALL from Iraq.")
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5 posted on 08/21/2004 3:40:09 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl

Adjust fire polar, over.
Direction, 2400; Distance, 400, over.
20 terrorist scumbags in the open, danger close,over.
BOOM!


11 posted on 08/21/2004 3:46:04 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Oh boy, I can't wait to eat that monkey!"--Abe Simpson)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Cannoneer No. 4
"It takes time to have aircraft on station, as with artillery - it's just a faster means of returning fire to the enemy," said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Thomas D. Kircher, senior watch officer for the regiment's combat operations center.

Well, here it is from somebody on the line. Quick reaction fire support in all conditions -- who would have thought that had value with all the PGM available? /sarcasm FAMPL bttt -- thanks, Ragtime Cowgirl.

12 posted on 08/21/2004 3:47:57 PM PDT by T-Bird45
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yep, now that Najef is starting to settle back down, we can expect the creeps at Fallujah to start back up again.


16 posted on 08/21/2004 4:04:23 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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Can anybody who has done this for a living enlighten me as to how the call for artillery is accurately placed? I am a geologist by degree so you can speak in map terms, I understand. But, how are the grid coordinates placed down to the unit level and what is the accepted accuracy?


17 posted on 08/21/2004 4:12:14 PM PDT by doodad
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Is there anybody who even comes close to training fighting men as well as the USA? I THINK NOT!

God bless these Marines!

22 posted on 08/21/2004 4:58:33 PM PDT by dukeman
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"It's so much harder to clear rubble than to clear buildings that are already standing."

I wonder why that is? I would just make smaller rubble.

28 posted on 08/21/2004 5:53:43 PM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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Although they didn't belong to the Marines, I passed a convoy of these "big guns" on 71hwy in Missouri last year. I counted 35 guns being towed, along with support trucks.

All I could think was "GodSpeed," and "Give 'em Hell!"

Mark


42 posted on 08/21/2004 7:55:41 PM PDT by MarkL (Dude!!! You're farting fire!!!!)
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This is a great thread. Thanks for posting.


49 posted on 08/22/2004 8:42:04 AM PDT by LincolnLover (Nader/Camejo 2004: Yeah, Libs, That's The Ticket!)
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Everyone is an 11 bang bang when the excrement hits the oscillator. ;^)

5.56mm

52 posted on 08/22/2004 10:17:06 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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