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To: Joe 6-pack; archy

If yer old enough to remember that “pig,” well, I guess we’re brothers.


49 posted on 07/07/2012 1:31:32 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
Particularly deadly because it has, "a shoulder thing that goes up."


55 posted on 07/07/2012 1:50:02 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Travis McGee; Joe 6-pack; Squantos
If yer old enough to remember that “pig,” well, I guess we’re brothers.

Since the M73 7.62 co-ax mg in the M48A3 was an unreliable, jammamatic, always breaking POS, I had an M60 mounted on the Chrysler gun mount on the outside of the turret of our tank, right between the loaders and drivers hatches. Since *pig* was the infantryman's/crunchy/gravel technician's term for the MG, we gave ours an appropriately piggy individual name, which became the eventual name of our tank itself as well as the crew. We were armed with:

91 posted on 07/09/2012 2:47:00 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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