Comments for More fun with pictures!

More fun with pictures!

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:23:54 -0600

Funny hats and some Armorer-zen. First up - funny hats!

Comment from Josh on 2009-03-10

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:18:50 -0600

Ummmm -- drinking coffee and talking to the weather chick on the phone while you're typing counts, right?

Depends, are you talking to the Flight Services chick, or are you chatting up your local news station's weather girl?

Comment from Justthisguy on 2009-03-10

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:08:46 -0600

P.s. In the Girl Genius cartoon universe, lotsa folks wear shakos. Because they look cool and make a dominating impression on people.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2009-03-10

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:58:25 -0600

As a former bandsman, I must say that shakos are cool, they being my high-school band headgear and my Ga. Tech band headgear. Ga. Tech AFROTC band only allowed the um, suggestively-folded cloth cap. You can stow lotsa stuff in a shako, and it also makes you look taller.

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-09

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:54:15 -0600

Heartless -- yup. That's what I get for multitasking.

Ummmm -- drinking coffee and talking to the weather chick on the phone while you're typing counts, right?

Comment from Heartless Libertarian on 2009-03-09

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:57:06 -0600

BillT-

Not an M240C - I'd say an M240B with a 240C feed tray and cover. Not sure what the nomenclature would be for that.

The 240C is the coax version used in the M1 tank and the M2/3 IFV. There are more, and very visible, differences than just the left-hand feed.

Key features of the 240C that are missing in the picture: the back plate (pictured weapon has a buttstock), shortened pistol grip (no need when solenoid fired), and cable loop attached to the charging handle. The 240C also lacks the front handguards and front sight, although adding the front sight is a simple matter of putting a 240B/G barrel on the weapon.

Comment from Josh on 2009-03-09

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:51:39 -0600

1. For Josh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nock_gun

Ooooh cool...so it's more or less like loading up a double barrel 12-gauge with two Tri-Ball rounds and firing them both at the same time?

Comment from Boquisucio on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:59:43 -0600

Those buildings in the background look very much like those in and around the C.A.N.(The Colombian Pentagon)in Bogotá.

Gen. Padilla... Sounds familiar. I wonder whether he is one of Beetlejuice´s henpecked groupies...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:13:52 -0600

Yeah, but... no one has felt threatened by you guys since WWII... except the Taliban, to their regret.

Whereas, US, well, everybody is afraid of us and our guns.

Comment from Colin on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:06:30 -0600

The absolute silly hat is the Pillbox, a stunningingly useless design.

As for the Great lakes, the Canadian army has been firing lots of bullets into them over the years.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:26:29 -0600

And Josh gets his wish!

Comment from LarryK on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:44:18 -0600

If you want to see the boats in action look at these two clips. I couldn't get any sound on the first one but the second is a hoot ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFkU-Roqz58&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdRfbjIigIM&NR=1

Comment from Argent on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:24:14 -0600

Gosh i thought this was Police Academy 47 for a second there.

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:28:28 -0600

1. For Josh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nock_gun

2. "The Canadians ... threw a fit when they conducted some live fire exercises with M-240s etc on Lake Erie." That problem was treated before it went too far by getting the info into the media on the treaty and its applications over the past 150 years, and discussing the minor differences between a 5" deck gun and a 7.62mm MG. And that it was unlikely that stray bullets from an offshore range at Oswego might hamper boaters in Toronto harbour. The uproar remained confined to Dippers and local 'activists'.

Cheers

Comment from Grimmy on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:27:02 -0600

Is this boat team part of the USN's recent restructure to bring back "brown water" capability?

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:53:50 -0600

Oh and is that a minigun in the upper right corner of the first picture of SBT-22?

Yup.

Why don't we get any pictures of THAT in action?

Judging by the size of the ammo can, he only got off a 1-second burst.

Comment from Josh on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:41:11 -0600

Neither of them know how to salute.

I was gonna say...I'd get yelled at for saluting like that...whose job is it to yell at the Chairman of the JCS?

because if they took any, the haven't posted 'em.

Yeah but what kinda photographer doesn't want to show off pictures of a minigun in action? They're very photogenic...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:15:08 -0600

I'm giving Admiral Mullen the benefit of the doubt in that he didn't want to smack his bony elbow into General de Leon's ear.

Josh - because if they took any, the haven't posted 'em.

Comment from Dad on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:01:06 -0600

Neither of them know how to salute.
Dad

Comment from Josh on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:53:00 -0600

Oh and is that a minigun in the upper right corner of the first picture of SBT-22? Why don't we get any pictures of THAT in action?

Comment from Josh on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:29:25 -0600

I maintain that the Official United States Air Force Silly Hat [also known as the Flight Cap] is the silliest of them all!

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:09:24 -0600

run a boat at high speed up narrow waterways firing live ammo at all sort of targets and get
paid too!

Should be modded to read: run a boat [that someone else paid for] at high speed [using fuel someone else paid for] up narrow waterways [and no worry about guys with badges] firing live ammo [that someone else paid for from guns that someone else paid for] at all sort of targets [that someone else paid for] and get paid too!

And they wonder why we enlist... I need to get an embed ride along...

Comment from LarryK on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:34:22 -0600

SBT-22 also trains at Ft Knox. There is a good article in the Feb Popular Mechanics. Our son goes there about every 6 months for tactical coxswain training in the USCG. It is a live fire environment. In most places the USCG can't train on boats with real ammo. The Canadians and some local politicians threw a fit when they conducted some live fire exercises with M-240s etc on Lake Erie.Something about a treaty with the British (didn't know there were still any British on the Great Lakes). They also train at Camp Lejune. I don't know if the USCG shares space at Stennis. It sounds like great fun ... run a boat at high speed up narrow waterways firing live ammo at all sort of targets and get paid too!

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:33:08 -0600

Does the twin feed from both sides or does the feed on the right somehow supply both barrels?

Both sides. The gun on the right is an M240C and the one on the left looks an awful lot like an M240H.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:23:15 -0600

Chuck, I believe the guns feed from the outside, and eject down chutes in the middle.

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:11:41 -0600

Fun stuff, and sailors with a sense of humor, too!

I think it's cool the way Admiral Mullen is mocking John Kerry's saluting style...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:54:14 -0600

And you made an assumption about the shako, anyway. Saucer caps are silly, too.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:51:57 -0600

Jim - think about what either of us would look like in shakos. Just one of many reasons I didn't go to West Point.

Comment from JimC on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:49:01 -0600

Shakos are not funny hats. The face plates might be funny but the shako is not.

Comment from Chuck Simmins on 2009-03-08

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:48:23 -0600

Does the twin feed from both sides or does the feed on the right somehow supply both barrels?