Comments for Another whatziss...

Another whatziss...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:21:39 -0600

...one of my usual ways of covering a lackaposting when TDY. Yeah, it's a snivel, but hey, I got back to the hotel at 7PM, lay down to read the paper, and suddenly it was 3AM. Hard to keep up with the world when yer in the secure area all day and slug out immediately upon arrival at the hotel......

Comment from Alan Briley, RN on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:21:43 -0600

Maybe the orientation of the view is off. It could be the inside view of a water filtration plant, turned sideways.

Comment from Alan Briley, RN on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:34:52 -0600

AND...,

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!

Comment from Alan Briley, RN on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:05:08 -0600

Let's see..., I'm a grunt, and I see corrosion, copper doo-dads, wires, ... hmmmm. I know! It is a soviet military item, or a pre 1960's American military item resistant to EMP warfare!!!

Oh, you want to know specifically what it is? Sorry, I'm a grunt. I think we should put C-4, det cord, and blasting caps on it. It's too heavy to bring back for the S-2 to mis-identify...!

Fire for effect!

Comment from XBradTC on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:42:07 -0600

John, couldn't find the pic, but yeah, I was (always) a rule breaker. The Curator at Ft. Lewis got pissed at me for climbing all over their M-103.

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:35:58 -0600

Nah Tim, if they was real blue water wannabes they would have a couple a E2s pretending to chip rust on that buggy.

Comment from BillT on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:43:32 -0600

Nope, it's more like *bait* for ATGMs...

Comment from Argent on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:33:59 -0600

It makes me think of a trap.

Comment from BillT on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:04:20 -0600

If that's a tank, where's the turret?

Feh. It's an assault gun -- an overgrown ASU-85.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:50:41 -0600

Ah, so you want to provide *proof* of you breaking rules, eh? As in, "Don't climb on the tanks."

Comment from XBradTC on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:52:51 -0600

So, ummm, do I win a prize? And I'm pretty sure I've got a picture of me on that tank somewhere.

Comment from Ymarsakar on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:00 -0600

So it is a land pocket battleship? ; )

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:35:53 -0600

Plus, turret is borrowed from military architecture, and periscopes use on land pre-date their use at sea.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:33:50 -0600

No, the "tank" (so-called because the crates were marked "water tank" when the sekrit machines were shipped about) was originally called a Landship, because it was developed under the direction of the First Lord of the Admiralty... Winston Churchill.

Or something like that.

Comment from Ymarsakar on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:43:05 -0600

The tank is their pocket battleship.

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:02:37 -0600

Mike,

   Well I have to wonder just what's up with all the armour giys anyway. Seems to me they are all a bunch of wannabe sailors. They speak the lingo, you know.

   Turret. Hatch. Main Gun. Hull. Bow. Bulkhead. Sponson. Aft. Oberhead. Compartment. Periscope.
    The vocabulary goes on and on, but you just can't use the word "starboard" or "port". Oj wait... you DO use gun port. My bad..... Heh. :)

     I guess denial is not just a river in Egypt, eh?

Comment from RetRsvMike on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:31:48 -0600

STARBOARD?!?! There's no STARBOARD in friggin' PANZERS ladies!!!

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:17:23 -0600

Mike,

It's the starboard side. That's the only set of tracks that are aligned.....

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:17:08 -0600

Oh, well *that's* obvious, Mike. Geez.

Comment from RetRsvMike on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:39 -0600

yeah, but is it the LEFT or the RIGHT side, smartie pants??!!

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:03:15 -0600

XBrad..that was pretty good. But, I guess that's what you get when you throw a tank picture up in the armorer's layer.

Comment from XBradTC on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:41:11 -0600

Here's a picture.

Comment from XBradTC on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:39:17 -0600

I think it's a T-28. Tank that is.

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:06:02 -0600

Under the floor board of your house?

Comment from Pat on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:24:17 -0600

It looks like track to me, But I have no Idea what vehicle it belongs to, other than it's probably heavy track.
Pat

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:59:27 -0600

John,

I'd have to say that those were row upon row of PC's and peripherals in storage, either waiting to be issued, or waitinf to be recycled. They are stored in a reinforced concrete facility, most likely a munitions bunker of some sort,, perhaps ebem part of a command post. Hard to tell. Gowever, it's been unused for it's intended purpose for awhile as there are paint peelings overhead. Fown the center are sheets of paper detailg what each section of computers is assigned to, or came from, or are intended for, etc. Inventory sheets, in other words.

Respects,

Comment from BillT on 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:57:45 -0600

It's an inverted picture of the interior of ry's keyboard. The Cheetos™ crumbs are a dead giveaway...