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I'm bound to ask the obvious question of what on earth is sprouting out from the building? Is it an antenna of some description or perhaps part of an apparatus used fro parachute training???
Parachute high tower...
I don't know, but the way the rifle is pointed someone had some 'splaining' to do
I wish people would quit worrying about things like that in pictures...worry about them in your OWN life. It's a picture and who knows what's happening?Quote:
Originally Posted by aspen80
Hey Jim, it's just an observation. I made the same one. In most circles pointing a weapon at anyone is a huge no-no unless they happen to be the subject of aggression. Combat is an entirely different scenario than training. It's all good :thup:Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
It looks like the rifle holder is more in the background and the other Marine is in the foreground. That would mean the rifle is pointing to the other Marine's right and not at him. That after studying the photo :D
HHHmmm me thinks it goes like this, "Look Jack pay no attention to that guy trying to sneak up on us from my right he lost his canteen and wants to nick yours, besides can I have my gloves back my hands are freezing. Just look at these chill bains on my right pinky?":madsmile:
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"Any more lip from you BOY and its up the tower fer you get it! Now can I have your gloves my hands are cold!!!":p
Man with M1: "Now this is a real rifle, not that wimpy thing you carry."
While it is a 250' Free Tower used in parachute training, it is not located at Ft. Benning. In 1942, the Marine Corps built a parachute training facility at Hadnot Point, New River, NC. It had a Jump tower almost identical to the ones at Ft. Benning. They closed the school in 1943. If I was a betting man I would say this grown-over Marine training field is at this facility.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Ah yes, I remember the hours I spent in the cupola atop the winch control building at the Jump Towers at Ft. Benning when I was a Black Hat back in my younger days.
Thanks for identifying it as a parachute training tower, Jim.
I've mentioned in the past that, years ago, while in the Army Cadets a fellow cadet inexplicably decided to point a rifle at a sergeant, admittedly it was a D.P. rifle. I instantly knew that something was about to happen because of this but I wasn't sure what. The sergeant very softly and politely asked the cadet who had pointed the rifle at him to turn around/about turn. Then from some distance away, the sergeant took a run towards the cadet and gave him one enormous kick in the behind. By today's standards, this may seem harsh but the cadet had pointed a rifle, albeit a D.P., at a sergeant in front of all the other cadets; the sergeant couldn't let the cadet get away with it or next time it may have happened with a live rifle.