Plainfield Plant Robbed 1967

[browningautorifle]

A manufacturer would not have a lot laying around.

I'm not so sure, for testing and targeting there would be ammo required. Sure, it would get consumed but it's possible there would be substantial on hand.

I felt safer in downtown Ramadi.

But there you were carrying an M4 and a cummerbund full of mags ready for a scrap.

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[fjruple]

I'm not so sure, for testing and targeting there would be ammo required. Sure, it would get consumed but it's possible there would be substantial on hand.



But there you were carrying an M4 and a cummerbund full of mags ready for a scrap.

Jim-- Not really my MTOE weapon was a Beretta M9 pistol. It was a joke. The natives were carrying at a minimum AKs and here I am with my little pop gun. I found a Yugo M70AB2 AK with a folding stock laying in the desert. Cleaned it up. I got extra magazines and some good 7.62x39 ammo from the Special Ops folks. I used that until we got some M16A2 rifles in from states side. I love when armchair commandos write up an MTOE and never been in a hostile environment.

[eb in oregon]

Jim-- Not really my MTOE weapon was a Beretta M9 pistol. It was a joke. The natives were carrying at a minimum AKs and here I am with my little pop gun. I found a Yugo M70AB2 AK with a folding stock laying in the desert. Cleaned it up. I got extra magazines and some good 7.62x39 ammo from the Special Ops folks. I used that until we got some M16A2 rifles in from states side. I love when armchair commandos write up an MTOE and never been in a hostile environment.

Those would be the same idiots that wrote the MTOE for Cavalry Scouts, believing a TOW missile in heavy forest is better than a MaDeuce or a MK19. We trained for years in heavy forrest using TOWS and would rarely have ever had a shot over 200 meters. Darn good observation device though.

[browningautorifle]

love when armchair commandos write up an MTOE and never been in a hostile environment.

Or aren't even infantry.

Darn good observation device though.

Be able to count the hairs on that hand...

[eb in oregon]

Or aren't even infantry.



Be able to count the hairs on that hand...

I was once training at Ft. Harrison outside Helena Montana and we were in the field working with the TOW at night. We watched a couple a few hundred yards away that had parked downhill and were "sparking" in the back seat. Yes I my be a pervert, but it was entertaining. Of course this was long before everybody had a phone let alone smart phone to record it.

[painter777]

We watched a couple a few hundred yards away

While drinking our share at the drive in years ago and having just returned from the bathroom, I accidently got in to the wrong Pontiac Lemans. I jumped in quickly being cold outside and the windows fogged up.
Then the Screaming started.
It wasn't full of my buddies, but a couple in the back. I nearly scared that Older Couple to death. My friends sitting in my Pontiac were 3 spots over. They heard that couples scream as I came running back to the right car. Other than my scarred for life eyes, I think I was more embarrassed than that couple was.

Reminds me of the episode of That 70's Show, When a policeman thought he had some youngsters parked and Sparking. To his surprise when the window was rolled down he found Red and Kitty were the culprits going at it in the little gas saver car. Red Forman then chewed the Policeman a new one.
"Oh Red, you let him off with a warning" said Kitty.

"sparking"

Haven't heard "Sparking" used since my Father would give me the business when I was heading out on a date.
@Eb, Thx for that, Good memories.....

[browningautorifle]

Ft. Harrison outside Helena Montana

I've been there too...passing through in '98 I think it was.

[ssgross]

I love when armchair commandos write up an MTOE and never been in a hostile environment.

Yep. Those couch potatoes wit no clue how to calculate "Mega Tonnes of Oil Equivalent"