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Wendell, this one's for you...

By The Armorer on February 25, 2004 | | Comments (11) | TrackBacks (2)
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I don't *always* pick on tankers.

You need the sound on. It's work safe. It's hilarious. It's a 2 meg .wmv, so if you've got dial-up, that's going to be tough. Better go read.

PLEASE=PLEASE=PLEASE 'right click" and "save as" rather than spawn it from my host server! Not only will it overall be faster, it'll just be better overall.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present The Royal Marines in "Low-tide Landings Suck"

They didn't have a hair on their chest if they didn't take the opportunity to test the ability of the SA-80 to shoot in those conditions. Well, that and the way they prove that the life jacket 'auto-inflate' feature does, in fact, work.

I think the part I like best is the lemming-like way they just keep coming!

Wendell - if you or anyone comes up with an artillery 'blooper-reel' I'll post it.

Hat tip to Duane H. for the movie!

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Around The Blagosphere from A Collection of Thoughts on February 26, 2004 3:02 PM

I'm snowed in today, so I thought I'd take a cruise around the 'sphere and see what I can find: John of Argghhh has a great video featuring the Royal Marines in "Low Tide Landings Suck! Blackfive reminds us to... Read More

Friday Foray from Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love on February 27, 2004 11:21 AM

Good day to you...I FEEEEL GREEAAAT! Here's what happened at Madfish Willie's last night...it features Harvey. If you haven't over to Argghhh!, you should check out why Low Tide Landings Suck. LMAO. More to follow... Read More

11 Comments

By beth on February 26, 2004 6:07 AM
Yes, that is pretty funny! Looks almost like quicksand that the one guy got stuck in.
 
By Eric on February 26, 2004 8:16 AM
heheehe... I survived Arctic/Mountain Training with 45 Commando out of Arbroath... those crazy bastards LIVE for that stuff...
 
By Emperor Misha I on February 26, 2004 9:40 AM
"Attack of the Mutant Swamp Things" LOL! And any Royal Marines reading this: If you think I haven't been involved in stunts that were similarly hilarious, mates, you're wrong. I just lucked out. There weren't anybody around with a camera :)
 
By Wendell on February 26, 2004 9:49 AM
Oh, that was good, John. I laughed out loud with that one and then thought glad that's not under fire. I always remember my first reaction to the scene in Longest Day when the paratrooper goes into the well. You stop laughing when the realization sinks in. Nice attempted trap with the request for Arty bloopers. You just want me to come back and say there aren't any, don't you?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 26, 2004 10:55 AM
And ya just did, dincha? 8^D
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 26, 2004 1:25 PM
I remember watching a 105mm crew firing direct at a tank target 1500m away: after eight misses, they stopped firing; we were glad because we were collapsing from mirth. The gun commander would been better off aiming through the barrel directly. Cheers JMH
 
By Jennifer Martinez on February 26, 2004 1:27 PM
That was great!!! Jennifer Martinez sends
 
By Puddle Pirate on February 26, 2004 3:34 PM
Any blooper reels of anti-war activists? Granted, their marches are giant continuous bloopers, but still ...
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 26, 2004 7:31 PM
John - can you spell boresight? I think you can. Direct fire is always a peacetime training weakness of the artillery. We choose to presume you fellas can handle your end of the fight.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 27, 2004 12:04 PM
And "emergency boresight"; unfortunately explaining such concepts to a gunner is generally futile. It's probably worse now that they have heard about those GPS thingies, and are issued laser pointers. Cheers JMH
 
By MunDane on February 27, 2004 4:07 PM
Once on field exercises, division arty was getting set to fire around sundown. People were heating their MREs in the exhaust of a 2.5 ton truck. (The usual procedure, drop 'em in , let the truck idle for a minute, gun engine and catch MRE's as it sails through air out of exhaust.) Anyway, one luckless tracktoad had just dropped his in when the Paladin fired. The overpressure pushed his packet beyond the point of return.(or possiblky it just got unluckily stuck) Luckily, the CO was standing by and laughing his ass off as the luckless private was trying to figure out how to get his "Beef, shredded, in BBQ sauce" out of the deuce, as I have heard this kind of mistake resulted in the unit being banned from heating the meals this way.