Hi guys! I'm home now, ready to again take on all you evil-doers, cuss filter get-arounders, and rotten post whores!
Field work wasn't anything special this time, the Tank battalion was in manuever mode, so didn't fire any main gun rounds. I did get to watch the Navy Sea-Bees light off over 14 tons of old munitions though. They set it all out in a long daisy chain and it took about 30 seconds for it all to go up...way cool boom..HOOAH:)
I scored about 20 .50 cal bullets that popped out of their cases from the blast pressure. They are all clean, undented, and ready to be re-loaded into MY cases!!
Only one scary moment. We were on the far side of the impact area, out of range of NORMAL projectile flight paths, when we all clearly heard the "whop" of a large caliber shell impacting the ground nearby. We carefully sauntered over to where we though it landed, and found a live 25mm shell from a Bradley that did not detonate on impact. The scary part, was that it was less than 4" from the drivers door of our HUMMV. A slight tail-wind could have caused it to fall into the truck, blowing the heck out of it, or the E-4 that was driving. whew!
Other than that, I was bored to tears! I played "Zelda-Links Awakening" four complete times on the Game-boy, including using the shovel to dig up every inch of the island! I also played "Duke Nuke'm" ad naseum. We went to the area where they filmed "We Were Soldiers" again, just to see what it looked like afterwards. All the plants they put in are still growing strong, and the grass they watered for 2 months is huge! I found a few expended blank rounds, and some fake bloody bandages. My bud scored a VC coolie hat that was hung on a bush and forgotten by the prop people.
So little happened, that I did not take one pic of anything. That was a first for me!
Anyhooo, glad to be home, and glad to talk to all of you again! Dave
Field work wasn't anything special this time, the Tank battalion was in manuever mode, so didn't fire any main gun rounds. I did get to watch the Navy Sea-Bees light off over 14 tons of old munitions though. They set it all out in a long daisy chain and it took about 30 seconds for it all to go up...way cool boom..HOOAH:)
I scored about 20 .50 cal bullets that popped out of their cases from the blast pressure. They are all clean, undented, and ready to be re-loaded into MY cases!!
Only one scary moment. We were on the far side of the impact area, out of range of NORMAL projectile flight paths, when we all clearly heard the "whop" of a large caliber shell impacting the ground nearby. We carefully sauntered over to where we though it landed, and found a live 25mm shell from a Bradley that did not detonate on impact. The scary part, was that it was less than 4" from the drivers door of our HUMMV. A slight tail-wind could have caused it to fall into the truck, blowing the heck out of it, or the E-4 that was driving. whew!
Other than that, I was bored to tears! I played "Zelda-Links Awakening" four complete times on the Game-boy, including using the shovel to dig up every inch of the island! I also played "Duke Nuke'm" ad naseum. We went to the area where they filmed "We Were Soldiers" again, just to see what it looked like afterwards. All the plants they put in are still growing strong, and the grass they watered for 2 months is huge! I found a few expended blank rounds, and some fake bloody bandages. My bud scored a VC coolie hat that was hung on a bush and forgotten by the prop people.
So little happened, that I did not take one pic of anything. That was a first for me!
Anyhooo, glad to be home, and glad to talk to all of you again! Dave
Welcome Back Army!
Comment