The C-17 looks like a smaller version of the C-5, and is known throughout the airlift community as Barney.
You know, kinda like these guys
Posted on 11/05/2005 9:15:52 PM PST by MGBGUN
Just got word from my daughter stationed at McChord they are evacuating. EOD on base. Anyone one else heard anything?
It was not mentioned explicitly, but we were told if we saw anything that looked strange to clear the area and report. (Granted, being on base as a contractor, I didn't get to wander all over, but I could get back behind the Robinson gate and get up close to some 155 rounds being poured... But the closest I got to anything that I could have put in my car was a case of flash bangs, but we figured they'd miss them. (Besides, I have an aversion to stainless steel bracelets ;-)
That's Hopatcong by the way ;-)
ok everyone...i am not blowing up tonight...so i need to sleep i have to be up in 5 hours....goodnight everyone....ill post tomorrow.
I want to hear that story!!! US Army EOD email me if you can at the_poiriers@hotmail.com and tell me. thanks and goodnight
I was a PE major, not a English major in college so I didn't learn how to spell. If I had been smarter, I would have been smart enough not to volunteer for EOD.
But they did have an accident with chemical munitions in the 20's. That is where most of that stuff came from.
Yup, Army EOD shows up at my workplace about once a year to pick up Civil War shells slated for disposal.
Yep, and a lot of stuff is still being churned out there. They have a museum there now (I'm sure it wasn't there in '66 when you were ) and they have displays of all sorts of stuff from a dummy Atomic Annie shell to even bigger cold war era nukes...
They still blow stuff up up there, and if they do it right, it takes the glass out of doors down the hill from there. (But they also get blamed for some of the damage that actually comes from blasts at the quarry on Mt Hope Road..)
I told my kid that I could have had a case of flash-bangs if we could have figured out how to get them out of there without having to account for them and he positively drooled at the thought of what he could have done with them. Obviously being in artillary affected him somewhat ;-)
Okay!! Who put tinfoil in the microwave again??
Bombs from the Korean and Vietnam wars are found in Europe and Japan all the time?
(Yeah, I'm just messing with you.) ;-)
I used to know someone who worked at the Western State mental institution. One time she showed me an old part of the grounds where the original buildings had stood. They had been used by the Army to practice demolition so there were just ruins left. You could still look in the bottom floor though and see where mental patients had been chained up.
The C-17 looks like a smaller version of the C-5, and is known throughout the airlift community as Barney.
You know, kinda like these guys
At some bases, it's known as Extremely Obnoxious Drunks... :)
No one parties harder.
Hmm...Perhaps you were closer then. I was in Silverdale for six years. I never heard a report of "thudding". The only shaking I experienced was from two minor earthquakes.
So, if I hear an explosion, it's one of the patients going off?
Watch it!!!!
Please take note of the "Loose lips sink ships" policy!!!!!!
Whatever happens on a military base should not be broadcast to the world except from your base commander or higher ups. I think this thread should be pulled immediately.
Doesn't sound much like a cannonball, in that case.
We get them sometimes. My husband works on the flightline at McChord. He's off today, but I haven't heard a thing about this.
Turns out, they were doing some kinda artillery testing.
Fort Lewis does it all the time. We live right next to it. We call it "the sound of freedom"! =)
Check and see if it comes up at DU.
We hear 'em pretty good out on the Key Peninsula, not mugh between us except water. Stay Safe & Thanks For Keeping US safe!
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