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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:24 pm 
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Sure general, I can disarm that IED under your bunk, how about bumping me up a few E-grades while I work on it.

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:00 pm 
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general, this ones a might more difficult than a regular bomb, if i had more rank, i could probably figure out how to disarm it quicker.afterall which would you rather have working on it....a e4 or a e7? :mrgreen:

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:35 am 
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Talking to one of the marines in my group therapy last Monday. Somehow we got on the topic and he said they were having trouble with a sniper in some building in some town in Iraq. So all they had was a mikleck trailer so they fired it over the building and got the sniper. That struck me as a bit funny.

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:48 am 
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lol. ole sarge always said when in doubt of how much c4 to use to get the job done, use the formula- P, for plenty of c4, building, trailer full of c4 shot from a rocket attached to a wire, across a building= sounds right, i"d liked to have seen that though....fun :lol: .

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
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:lol: Made me laugh just the thought of it. I can see that thing going over the building. What a site. 8O

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:55 am 
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ya, wonder what that sniper thought when he seen that rocket flying over, prob thought they missed !!!, but what was that stuff that was behind it on that wire .....BOOM!!!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:40 am 
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Whatever works ... better than taking pot shots all day.

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
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Funny as hell. Wish I had seen it. Damn sniper and a mikleck net . 8O :lol: 8)

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:05 am 
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Makes me think of that video on Miltary.com Shock & Awe where they take out most of a building with an Abrams to get 1 sniper on top of it.

That miclec probably cut the buidling in half huh?

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:13 pm 
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I can only imagine. Still funny scenario to me. " Hey I know... fire that miclec net over it" 8O :lol:


Hey Haze, I wonder if you could get the trailer close enough to the building to fire the rocket pullin' the net through a window? Drag the net into the building with them!!! God that's crackin' me up. :lol: :lol:

What do ya think tricky? Maybe put that big lizard on the rocket?

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
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I came close to going EOD at Ft. Drum. They were looking for people and pretty much said that I could go up in rank pretty fast.


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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:51 am 
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Did you read all this Haze? I still chuckle about the miclec trailer over a building. Wish they filmed it and put it on youtube.

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
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gettin close enough to get it shot through the window...no problem,we used M113"s to pull our mic"s. 8) ...i"d sure like to try that... :mrgreen: . dunno if all of the c4 would make it, but alot would, being if you got the shot in the window, just the speed alone would pull it through,givin that it was centered close to middle of window......that fun!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:

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 Post subject: Re: 197th Support BN
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:33 pm 
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I remember them being pulled by trax. My thought was the trajectory of the rocket. In one widow and out another. Then blow the top of the building and air assault into it. A whole new city warfare tactic.

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