Very cool stuff

That'll make him a god damn sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me

It took this long? Good for him.

ArkAngel: That'll make him a god damn sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me


Yeah, strap this on your sore ass, ArkAngel.

Jesus your box is big! Jesus your box is big!

You didn't have to say it twice!

I didn't.

Very cool. Can has? It'll be perfect for the Zombie Apocalypse coming on Friday.

That's farking awesome. I like the quick reaction from the Army. They took one look and said, "Duh, why didn't WE think of that?"

Useless. That will just let the agunner wander off and not get asploded when you do.

Ammo! Get over here. Barrel change! Where are you?

Does the MK48 have a distinctive thump-thump-thump sound like the M-60? In 1979, I was a newly minted M-60 operator thinking he was the baddest thing in the Army. An E-6 who had been in Vietnam said "Yep. Nothing attracts the mortar round like the sound of an M-60."

The Japanese came up with this idea several years ago:

Harry Freakstorm: Useless. That will just let the agunner wander off and not get asploded when you do.

Ammo! Get over here. Barrel change! Where are you?

Does the MK48 have a distinctive thump-thump-thump sound like the M-60? In 1979, I was a newly minted M-60 operator thinking he was the baddest thing in the Army. An E-6 who had been in Vietnam said "Yep. Nothing attracts the mortar round like the sound of an M-60."

With the MK48 as well as the M249, there is no such thing as an assistant gunner. It's a personally assigned weapon. When you get up to the .50 cals, THEN you get an AG.

/adapt and overcome

According to Soldier Systems blog, following up on a Military.com blog piece from the summer, there's already an existing product created by a private company.

Whether it costs more or less, or works as well as this version, is unknowed by me.

/stubmitter

KangTheMad: chaddsfarkprefect

He's a soldier, not a businessman, he doesn't care about making money, he cares about making his army more efficient and better. It's called loyalty.


That and about saving his and his comrades' lives.

Never underestimate the ingenuity of the mid-grade enlisted soldier.

The first up-armouring of HMMWVs were done "off the books" and without approval by mechanics with scrap metal.

The Army was spending assloads of money to equip helicopter mechanics with night vision goggles and other devices for testing the helicopters' IR lights, until a buck sergeant slapped togther a simple IR receptor and other parts from Radio Shack to make a pocket-sized IR tester that cost next to nothing.

dittybopper: The Torpedo Directorate never saw that in its testing, because they launched the torpedoes from surface ships, or from u-boats that hadn't spent a prolonged period submerged, so the test torpedoes were never exposed to excess pressures, and they ran at the correct depth.

And everyone lived happily ever after?

OK, here's my csb in the form of a sea story...

My last tour was in an SH-60B squadron. When the helos went on cross-country flights where they needed their commsec gear, the crew always took what we called a cruise box, a collapsable steel chest about the size of two large beer coolers. When they landed somewhere and were going to stay overnight, they had to take the commsec out of the racks, put it in the cruise box and lock it up and one of the crewmembers was supposed to stay with the box in the hotel room or whatever. Anyway, the cruise box is WAY bigger than you need so I took an old tool box and cut some foam up and voila, a little suitcase sized commsec container from off the shelf stuff. We built another one so we would have one for each bird on the detachment.

After a while, we were lending the boxes to other crews when they were flying a cross country and I guess one day the CO saw the box because the next day the QA Officer is down in my face, handing me a bunch of forms for a "Beneficial Suggestion". Apparently, the number of "bennysuggs" a squadron submitted was part of some kind of end of year report and the Skipper wanted this one sent in. It took longer to do all of the paperwork than it did to throw together the box but I grumbled a little bit and did it because I kind of liked the CO at the time. I gave the paperwork to the QAO a few days later and forgot about it.

About three months later I am called up during an award ceremony and lo and behold, I get this cute little letter of appreciation and a check for $34 and some-odd cents (a $50 award less taxes) from the squadron. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, right?

Anyway, the story doesn't end there.

I transferred to the Fleet Reserve and I am working in my garage one day about three years later and I see some clown park in front of my driveway. I'm about ready to go out and tell him to move when I realize it's one of the petty officers from my last detachment. "Hey Chief!" he says, "The Wing has been looking for you!" It turns out that they had just got around to processing my bennysugg and what do you know, I get this cute little letter of appreciation and another check for $34 and some-odd cents from the type wing.

So yeah, this guy will get some recognition for this...

Someday.