Combat Camera/MilPics: The missile knows where it is.

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Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Itchy_Grundle posted:

A new gunner in my company accidentally shot a deer with a training HEAT round from an M-1.

He was new and very nervous, and was having a really hard time identifying targets. While scanning haphazardly he mistook the deer shaped hot spot in the thermal for the PC shaped hot spot in the thermal. The TC was so flustered with the guy by that point he just yelled "Fire" when the gunner yelled "Identified".

Best part was that we had the video and audio recorded on a through sight video unit. To the gunner's credit he nailed that thing center mass.

Do you still have this video?

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Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Richard Bong posted:

I started a huge brushfire in Iraq with one that didn’t deploy correctly , melted the parachute, and dropped to the ground. Also when those rounds burst (at least 120mm mortars do this) the casing can fall on people and kill them. A guy in another troop called for illum Over some houses and killed a guy who was on his roof sleeping due to the heat.

We burned a Bedouin farmers field down in Iraq one morning when his campfire set off our flares and a few went right into his ten foot tall field. Another buddy had a flare launch while they were turning over the city and he watched it bounce inside the door of one of the local mud houses

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PookBear: Nov 1, 2008

Richard Bong posted:

I started a huge brushfire in Iraq with one that didn�t deploy correctly , melted the parachute, and dropped to the ground. Also when those rounds burst (at least 120mm mortars do this) the casing can fall on people and kill them. A guy in another troop called for illum Over some houses and killed a guy who was on his roof sleeping due to the heat.

during training at 29 palms we were doing a joint mortars/arty thing and all of a sudden we started hearing whistling over head from the illum cannisters

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Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

thesurlyspringKAA posted:

I dropped a GBU-12 on a donkey on the Nellie range because it was standing right next to the target. In order to avoid paperwork they just had the next few ships drop on the same spot to get rid of the evidence.

Oh man I had to displace so an A-10 could use a couple JDAMs to reduce a structure in Paktika once, so I told the gunner to stare at the target and who was tied up outside but a poor innocent donkey. Dude never saw it coming.

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

during training at 29 palms we were doing a joint mortars/arty thing and all of a sudden we started hearing whistling over head from the illum cannisters

I threw a lot of those things up and down MSR Tampa, I have to assume that the net positive from feeding the scrap metal economy outweighed the potential destruction caused by 900MPH cannisters bouncing off houses/cars/people.

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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

I threw a lot of those things up and down MSR Tampa, I have to assume that the net positive from feeding the scrap metal economy outweighed the potential destruction caused by 900MPH cannisters bouncing off houses/cars/people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFat3VTkI

# ? Nov 29, 2017 03:45

Richard Bong: Dec 11, 2008

Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

Oh man I had to displace so an A-10 could use a couple JDAMs to reduce a structure in Paktika once, so I told the gunner to stare at the target and who was tied up outside but a poor innocent donkey. Dude never saw it coming.

I threw a lot of those things up and down MSR Tampa, I have to assume that the net positive from feeding the scrap metal economy outweighed the potential destruction caused by 900MPH cannisters bouncing off houses/cars/people.

Yeah we were right off MSR Tampa.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 04:06

Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

Scratch Monkey posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFat3VTkI

Hah. Every time we test fired in OIF/OEF we'd sweep the range, it'd appear clear, then within five minutes a motorcycle with three people would appear underneath you to catch brass. The guys around Kandahar trained pilots there by setting up stacked rock targets which would make it easier to collect brass and rockets, maybe these "sons of the soil" could implement the same technique.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 04:20

Blind Rasputin: Nov 25, 2002; Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

I never heard about this and stumbled upon this video. Holy poo poo at the 2 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/U4t4LC-wZYo

# ? Nov 29, 2017 05:11

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Blind Rasputin posted:

I never heard about this and stumbled upon this video. Holy poo poo at the 2 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/U4t4LC-wZYo

The comments are a real treat on that one

# ? Nov 29, 2017 05:13

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

The comments are a real treat on that one

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I never had the heart to blow up Megaton City.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 05:18

Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

Blind Rasputin posted:

I never heard about this and stumbled upon this video. Holy poo poo at the 2 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/U4t4LC-wZYo

rocket doods call the wacky ones skywriters or surrender dorothys.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 06:34

Blind Rasputin: Nov 25, 2002; Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

The comments are a real treat on that one

Hah. I went back and read them. Jesus.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 06:44

aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

Scratch Monkey posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFat3VTkI

Jesus Christ

# ? Nov 29, 2017 11:51

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

Hah. Every time we test fired in OIF/OEF we'd sweep the range, it'd appear clear, then within five minutes a motorcycle with three people would appear underneath you to catch brass. The guys around Kandahar trained pilots there by setting up stacked rock targets which would make it easier to collect brass and rockets, maybe these "sons of the soil" could implement the same technique.

We constantly had to cease fire at Texas range outside KAF because the brass catchers would show up in the middle of our range session.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 16:38

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

Scratch Monkey posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFat3VTkI

I've driven past a bunch of lean-tos and makeshift homes with modified ATVs, dune buggies, gators, etc sitting around on the way to that bombing range. Also had a flight of cobras have to abandon a hellfire run because they spotted an ATV with a trailer hauling rear end with pieces of metal targets strapped to the back.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 19:55

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

My first trip to Afghanistan we drove out to the middle of 'nowhere' to shoot mk19s and M2s. While we're shooting a big group of people from a village a half mile away gather and watch as we blow poo poo up. Once we wrapped up they rush in and start fighting over the brass piles.

On another trip I got to ride and jump a lovely little honda motorcycle because the AA dudes were preoccupied with gathering all our brass.

Being American and not having to give a gently caress about scrap metal rules

# ? Nov 29, 2017 20:16

Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

Bring over all the scrappers from GWOT nations. Give them work visas to perform all range clearing on US military installations.
-millions of green suiter man-hours saved not having to walk up and down the range complex collecting brass, dunnage, and turning it in
-they collect at a higher percentage than soldiers would, increasing dollar recovery yield per training event
-their families now economically bought-in to US prosperity and military spending
-built-in population of native linguists now operating at every base for training opportunities
-extra soldier time now available to complete 350-1 training requirements, sexual assault and domestic abuse instantly eliminated from ranks

# ? Nov 29, 2017 20:26

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

Bring over all the scrappers from GWOT nations. Give them work visas to perform all range clearing on US military installations.
-millions of green suiter man-hours saved not having to walk up and down the range complex collecting brass, dunnage, and turning it in
-they collect at a higher percentage than soldiers would, increasing dollar recovery yield per training event
-their families now economically bought-in to US prosperity and military spending
-built-in population of native linguists now operating at every base for training opportunities
-extra soldier time now available to complete 350-1 training requirements, sexual assault and domestic abuse instantly eliminated from ranks

But can we half-rear end this somehow? :thunk:

# ? Nov 29, 2017 20:30

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Yes but how does the overseeing contractor cut a skim out of it? :thunk:

# ? Nov 29, 2017 21:08

Ambihelical Hexnut: Aug 5, 2008

Those questions can be each other's answers.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 22:30

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

That sounds like too big a job for the existing alphabet soup. We should create another Department to handle it.

# ? Nov 29, 2017 23:51

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Naked Bear posted:

That sounds like too big a job for the existing alphabet soup. We should create another Department to handle it.

I'd like to put in a bid to form the exploratory committee to assess the feasibility of creating this new department.

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not caring here: Feb 22, 2012; blazemastah 2 dry 4 u

Don't forget the obligatory spots for SNCOs and officers to get handed to them on retirement day to get approval at the local level.

# ? Nov 30, 2017 03:06

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

Oh, and make sure that there's an office in my district!

# ? Nov 30, 2017 03:27

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Vote for me, I'm creating jobs for good, hardworking Americans.

# ? Nov 30, 2017 04:01

Kung Fu Fist Fuck: Aug 9, 2009

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

We constantly had to cease fire at Texas range outside KAF because the brass catchers would show up in the middle of our range session.

shouldve introduced them to lead catching imho :twisted:

# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:54

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

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# ? Dec 1, 2017 17:51

Itchy_Grundle: Feb 22, 2003

Phanatic posted:

Do you still have this video?

Unfortunately not but I'll never forget it. You could see the round arcing toward the deer, and at the last moment it seemed to look up as if to say "huh?"

# ? Dec 1, 2017 20:12

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

All right, which one of you clowns is this?

# ? Dec 1, 2017 23:38

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Naked Bear posted:

All right, which one of you clowns is this?

Not me but I want one of those now

# ? Dec 1, 2017 23:40

Gobbeldygook: May 13, 2009; Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Not me but I want one of those now

$6 on Amazon.

edit: There's a glow in the dark version too

# ? Dec 1, 2017 23:56

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