[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

Cat mentioned

[infantrywhooah]

Fore!!! Oops, our bad!

At least no one was hurt (save the kitty of course).

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I might be going out on a limb here, but I'd say somebody is in a bit of trouble over this incident.

[Jagman]

Catastrophe!

[Normal4me]

Wait till I tell this story to my cats.....they are going to freak out.

[FoxInSocks]

A piece of artillery that was apparently misfired by the military

Very weird story. Here is an example of an "artillery piece" that weighs almost 8 tons:

Perhaps the writer means a projectile, or a projectile fragment, hit the cat. The M198 pictured above can send a 95-pound HE projectile almost 14 miles downrange.

[wastedyears]

Was it a politician’s home?

[LZ_Bayonet]

Well the cat had already used up 8 of the 9 lives available, so it obviously had an exciting life.

[Palladin]

WHOA! This is not good.

Let the cat jokes begin!

[zeaal]

Oh no!

We lived at Picatinny Arsenal for a number of years ... army brat here.

[bill1952]

A piece of artillery that was apparently misfired by the military crashed through the roof of a home miles away...

28:06:42:12

[cmsgop]

Sgt. Hulka is not pleased....

[Secret Agent Man]

Stupid reporting. THey say the cat was sleeping on the bed, the artillery piece landed in the bed, but don’t say if the cat was okay or not. Idiots. That’s the most interesting piece of the damn story (besides the fact you have artillery busting through the house!)...

[calex59]

Well, this is bad, but in 1960 an artillery round fell short and killed a whole mess of people I knew who were standing in the chow line in tent city at Graf, in Germany. Now and then stuff happens and luckily it was only a cat and not the girl who was hit.

[Cicero]

I did basic training at Fort Dix many years ago. I can’t say that I miss it.

[big'ol_freeper]

As usual the media gets it pretty much all wrong. There is no way that a two pound device is artillery. I am not doubting it was a projectile nor am I doubting that the military fired it errantly. But what is so hard about getting your facts straight before going publishing an article?...it ain’t that hard. They just look foolish in my mind.

Also note that it was not just a cat that was wounded...it was a “young girl’s cat”. They made sure they got that fact correct. That is an attempt to create a more negative feeling toward the military.

Regardless of the stupidity and anti-military slant of the media, heads roll when ordinance is fired into locations where it is not supposed to be fired, especially off post and endangering civilians. Careers will end, and rightfully so.

[Brilliant]

From a NYT article published today:

“There is active concern that Fort Monmouth, Picatinny and the Philadelphia Naval Yard may go down,” said Representative Robert E. Andrews, Democrat of Bellmawr, who has actively lobbied in defense of the bases. “New Jersey seems to have been disproportionately targeted.”

Why don’t we just close this base and kill two birds with one stone?

[OldMissileer]

It may have been the rear end of a round that came off during firing.

It has been known that sometimes the gas checks or entire back ends came off of defective rounds during firing.

Saw a gas check fly off a round once back in the 70s. The thing spun away, glinting in the sunlight, in a different trajectory than the shell and flew to only God knows where.

[PAR35]

A piece of artillery that was apparently misfired by the military crashed through the roof

If the artillery piece went through the house, did the shell end up sitting on the ground where the cannon was before it went flying uprange?