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Herb Stoops · #693

What is THAT?
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Stick486 · #694

Herb Stoops wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:02 pm What is THAT?

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LURP lid or an armor/air crew member's basic helmet w/ a touch of humor...

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Herb Stoops · #697

What is that landscape below? A port? Wonder where?
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Bushwhacker · #704

Stick486 wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:19 pm
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I always wanted to do that.

Did move into an old 1st Cav base camp and found a huge stash of out of date C rations. The engineers dug a huge crater and pushed them into it. We spayed 1200 gallons of diesel fuel and a hundred gallons of Mogas on them.
Got back a 1/4 mile and shot tracers into the pit.
We were not back far enough.
Very impressive.

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Bushwhacker · #705

Herb Stoops wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:17 pm What is that landscape below? A port? Wonder where?
HErb

I believe I seen this place. It might be man made land in one of the arab countries.
or florida.

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Bushwhacker · #706

Herb Stoops wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:02 pm What is THAT?
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It looks like a combat helmet with the added ears .
What do you think Stick?

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Bushwhacker · #707

Stick486 wrote: Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:59 pm
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Is this PUFF?

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Stick486 · #708

Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:02 am We were not back far enough.

we touched off 1200#s C4 from about 100 yards back... (no pit)
we weren't far enough back for that either....
we thought it was funny...
old guys laid down in a ditch...
new had to stand up and watch...

Stick486 · #709

Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:05 am I believe I seen this place. It might be man made land in one of the arab countries.
or Florida.

I've seen it too...
I'll go w/ man made Arab port..

Stick486 · #710

Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:07 am What do you think Stick?

LURP helmet w/ added ears...

Stick486 · #711

Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:09 am Is this PUFF?

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The AC-130 Gunship....
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PUFF is the old retired AC47 version
there's
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SPECTRE...
and a host of other names...

AC-130 GUNSHIP AND ITS VARIANTS....pdf

AC130U...

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Herb Stoops · #716

Whats with white socks/shoes?
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Bushwhacker · #717

Stick486 wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:32 am
Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:09 am Is this PUFF?
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The AC-130 Gunship....
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PUFF is the old retired AC47 version
there's
SPOOKY..
SPECTRE...
and a host of other names...
AC-130 GUNSHIP AND ITS VARIANTS....pdf
AC130U...

I spent many a night sitting on an out post watching PUFF work in the distance. Out of the dark sky, a stream of shells would erupt in a river of fire from 1 in 5 tracers from quad 50s or 60s firing at some ground target. The wave of tracers would flux as if the tip of a whip, as the force of firing so many rounds at one time would push the aircraft side ways across the sky. The sound would rise and fall in tremor some like RRRRRRROOOOOOOORRRRRRRRROOOOOOO. The gunner crews on board would use snow shovels to remove the piles of spent rounds out a door of the aircraft.
Even from our distant observation point, it would scare the hell out of you.

Bushwhacker

smitty10101 · #718

Herb Stoops wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:17 pm What is that landscape below? A port? Wonder where?
HErb

Dubai?? or UAE.

One of the Gulf countries built or is building a port/community into the Gulf.

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