Like I said in the post below - there are exceptions, such as, oh, astronauts, gun makers, firemen, cops, rescue workers (part-timers count). But I miss this cubicle, even if the one I worked in was this one's father. My dad worked in this one's grandfather... which means this chassis has been around a long time...
The Gun Crew of 1-5 Howitzer, Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division fires 155mm Artillery Rounds from their paladin mechanized howitzer over Forward Operations Base Hunter Maysan Province, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/ Released)
U.S. Soldiers of Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division supervises as U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joseph Perry of the Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron loads a 155mm Illumination Round into the breech of a paladin mechanized howitzer on forward Operating Base Hunter, in Maysan Province Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. Perry is cross-training with B Battery. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/ Released)
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Randy Hare of the Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron prepares to fire a 155mm Artillery Round from a paladin mechanized howitzer on forward Operating Base Hunter in Maysan Province, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. Hare cross-trains with the Soldiers of Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/Released)
U.S. Army Spc. Damian Warfield, Spc. Jorge Rodriguez, and Sgt. Mark Ramirez, all of Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, fire illumination rounds, from their paladin mechanized howitzer, on Forward Operations Base Hunter, over Maysan province, Iraq, Jan. 22, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens/Released)
The Gun Crew of 1-5 Howitzer, Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division fires 155mm Artillery Rounds from their paladin mechanized howitzer over Forward Operations Base Hunter Maysan Province, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/ Released)
U.S. Soldiers of Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division supervises as U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joseph Perry of the Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron loads a 155mm Illumination Round into the breech of a paladin mechanized howitzer on forward Operating Base Hunter, in Maysan Province Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. Perry is cross-training with B Battery. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/ Released)
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Randy Hare of the Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron prepares to fire a 155mm Artillery Round from a paladin mechanized howitzer on forward Operating Base Hunter in Maysan Province, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2009. Hare cross-trains with the Soldiers of Bulldog Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff. Sgt. Brendan Stephens/Released)
U.S. Army Spc. Damian Warfield, Spc. Jorge Rodriguez, and Sgt. Mark Ramirez, all of Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, attached to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, fire illumination rounds, from their paladin mechanized howitzer, on Forward Operations Base Hunter, over Maysan province, Iraq, Jan. 22, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens/Released)
This cubicle is an M109A6 Paladin Howitzer. (different gun and much different turret.)
My one-time cube was the M109A1/2/3 Howitzer (long tubed gun)
My Dad's (well, he commanded a battalion of them, vice served the gun, really) was the original, short-tubed gun.
I was just about to say that!