It was the worlds first known MLRS system.
(They built one on MYTHBUSTERS and it worked, although the Mythbusters can't aim for crap)
Posted on 05/03/2015 8:18:59 AM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — Following the issuance of new orders pertaining to access to Army installations last year, Fort Huachuca officials are preparing to implement a new series of criteria that will affect a majority of people wanting to go onto the post.
Beginning Aug. 3, visitors, contractors and anyone else 18 years old or older who want access to Fort Huachuca and do not already have a Department of Defense identification card will be subject to a background check before being allowed access to the post.
Military retirees, military family members, Gold Star ID holders and those with a Common Access Card will still have the same access they enjoy today and will not be required to submit to a background check.
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This does not apply to illegals crossing the boarder through Fort Huachuca!
But we must remember how the NYT would report this event...
Women, Minorities and ISIS hardest hit.
Excellent call, I would expect nothing less from a well run Post.
I thought this was normal.
When getting on Ft. Bragg they tell you up front, If you have a felony on the books, don’t bother. It is only about a year old though.
Dang. So much for military museums on Army bases.
I had a great time with the Fort Huachuca base historian a few years ago talking about the intelligence history of the American Revolution. I didn’t know about the Culpepper Ring, and he didn’t know that Howe had to plan his 1777 campaign at sea, with his whole army, so Washington wouldn’t hear about Howe’s decision before Howe could notify his subordinates. Howe had learned the hard way that anything he ordered in his New York City HQ got to Washington before the orders got to Howe’s troops.
Was your grandfather in the 10th Cavalry?
“Two of the McClellan Cav. saddles in the MUESEUM were my grandpas.”
I remember when you could buy them out of the Dixie Gun Works catalog.
N0. THOSE WERE WWI LEFT OVERS.
MY GREATGREATGREAT GRAMPA WAS A UNION CAV TROOPER DURING THE CIVAL WAR. HE RESTS AT THE MIL CEM NEAR KALAMEZU, BELIVE IT’S CALLED THE CUSTER.
It was the worlds first known MLRS system.
(They built one on MYTHBUSTERS and it worked, although the Mythbusters can't aim for crap)
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Frank was sort of the model for Levi Zendt in James Michener's _Centennial_, only he broke with his Brethren (not Amish) parents because he really, really, REALLY wanted to do something about slavery, as opposed to merely being rambunctious. Frank found it hard to do more than help fleeing slaves if he stayed with his family and their church. Not that they were really pacifists, they just thought it wrong to kill anyone who didn't deserve it, i.e., kill on command as opposed to a sincere personal belief that God would approve if they offed the offending dude. That's the difference between conscientious objectors and pacifists.
Frank was less fussy, so he left his family, church and Pennsylvannia to go do something direct about slavery in Kansas. Where he rode with John Brown. Family legend has it that Frank broke with Brown because he thought Brown was too nice.
Then, when the Civil War started, he came back to Pennsylvannia to enlist in the Pennsylvannia Reserve and fought in the Army of the Potomac until being wounded at Chancelorsville as a sergeant. He was commissioned as a lieutenant of Colored Infantry when he recovered, and was very badly wounded in the arm during the battle of the Crater as a captain commanding a company. He never returned to field service, but did return to Kansas after the war.
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