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Too bad Cramer Creek is too shallow...

By The Armorer on October 28, 2011 | | Comments (24)
...rocky and narrow for one of these.



VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Oct. 21, 2011) Sailors assigned to Riverine Squadron (RIVRON) 1 maneuver patrol boats during a final evaluation problem. RIVRON 1 participated in the two-week field exercise that tested Sailors in a variety of scenarios and qualified the squadron for deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Engineman 3rd Class Jason Howard)

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By Joe in N Calif on October 28, 2011 10:41 AM
Just the thing for waterfowl hunting. Add some punt guns and you would be set.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on October 28, 2011 10:54 AM
Still ain't as sexy as a Mk II.... (for those that don't know this is one of those, "Back in the old navy," lines)
 
By BillT on October 28, 2011 11:59 AM
Geez, I'd break a skid trying to shove one of those things off a mudbank with a Huey. At least the Mike boats had a couple of flat surfaces you could get some purchase on.

Not that I'd contemplate doing that, y'unnerstan...
 
By Quartermaster on October 28, 2011 12:21 PM
 The Missouri River iddnt too far away. That otter work well.

Why would you want to push one those off a mudbank for Bill? Just sling load it an pull pitch. Ya know like they did on that documentary Apocalypse Now.
 
By jim b on October 28, 2011 3:03 PM
Okay why is it that the Navy wears those screwy blue cammies, but paints boats like woodland camo?
 
By jim b on October 28, 2011 4:17 PM
Great. Sailor wear those strange blue cammies .... but the boats are woodlandish camo.
 
By Rich in KCK on October 28, 2011 4:35 PM
Is that a surpressed Ma Duece firing on the aft end of that there boat?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}
 
By Martin Morehouse on October 28, 2011 5:50 PM
It's an M2 with a BFA, (Blank-Firing Adapter). It's basically a muzzle cap held on with long bolts, that converts the barrel to a gas piston and operating rod, for use with blanks. So now you can say you've seen a gas operated M2 Browning.
 
By Rich in KCK on October 28, 2011 6:30 PM
Thanks Martin, after looking at the pic a while I THOUGHT I could make out a tube runnning along the top of the barrel.

Although a supressed Ma Duece would be pretty neat:-)

Regards

Rich in KCK

 
By Justthisguy on October 28, 2011 8:42 PM
River monitors are about my most favorite weird and crazy warships, and they are getting close with that thing. There was a Soviet admiral who did some good work with tank turrets on barges, near Stalingrad, on the Volga.
 
By jim b on October 28, 2011 10:30 PM
"Geez, I'd break a skid trying to shove one of those things off a mudbank with a Huey. At least the Mike boats had a couple of flat surfaces you could get some purchase on.

Not that I'd contemplate doing that, y'unnerstan..."

What BillT left off is the word .... AGAIN.
 
By irish19 on October 28, 2011 10:33 PM
There's nothing quite so rewarding as simply messing about in boats.
 
By Justthisguy on October 28, 2011 10:49 PM
Jim, sailors who actually have to wear those things seem reluctant to talk about them. I hear that the AF is having a Stupid Uniform Problem, too.

The Marines do not seem to have these kinds of problems.
 
By Old Fat Sailot on October 29, 2011 6:24 AM
BillT, did ya ever land on one of the Tangos with a flight deck?
 
By BillT on October 29, 2011 8:43 AM
Yup. I refueled four times a day on the USS Harnett County during the first week of our Cambodian adventure, and of course, a whole buncha times on the World's Biggest Raft.


 
By John of Argghhh! on October 29, 2011 9:14 AM
My eyes must be getting bad.  I don't see any blue uniforms on those bubbas, so one can assume, I think, that while bopping about on inland waterways, the Brown Water Navy types can wear green...
 
By jim king on October 29, 2011 11:33 AM
@Bill T:" The entire base was loaded on LSDs", yep the documentary Alpacalips Now
 
By 11B40 on October 29, 2011 11:48 AM
Greetings:

In the fine tradition of my favorite Platoon Sergeant who said, several times, "If it mves put a gun on it; if it still moves, put another gun on it." 
 
By Quartermaster on October 29, 2011 1:57 PM
 The Navy "cammo" uniform is referred to derisively as the "blueberry." I got on eye full of them when I went aboard Midway in July as teh ship is still used for certain Navy functions and they had a detail aboard to clean up after a change of command for the Naval Supply Center.

The uniform looked idiotic and I felt sorry for the poor swabos that had to wear them.

I saw the Antelope in the Med a few years after the pics in Bill's link were taken. She tied up to Graham County with 3 other PGs. She was given to the Turks later, as I recall.

My DivO on Sylvania had been assigned to teh largest raft, but I can't recall what he used to call it. It wasn't the best place to be stationed in 'nam.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on October 29, 2011 3:27 PM
 Photo of aformentioned BFA:
www.armyproperty.com/nsn/1005-01-091-7510
... note that the gun remains recoil-operated; the purpose of the BFA is to recreate the internal gas pressures necessary to replicate the standard interior ballistics.

Cheers
 
By Old Fat Sailor on October 29, 2011 4:03 PM
 Now Bill, you know we were never in Cambodia-Tricky Dick said so...
 
By jim b on October 29, 2011 9:48 PM
After looking at the photo again ... I gotta ask ... why aren't those guys using a minigun.  I have seen them shoot.
 
By John of Argghhh! on October 29, 2011 9:58 PM
That might be a minigun up forward...
 
By BillT on October 30, 2011 2:29 AM
Could be. They use them on the all-metal assault boats, but not on the inflatables.