The History Channel on the AR15/M16

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Atwater was on the weaponology episode about booby traps. He talked about one he set on a trail in Vietnam that consisted of a claymore taped to a 55 gallon drum of NAPALM suspended above a trail. His story made it sound about as fun as you'd think it would be.
 
I enjoy listening to Atwater .. It is just that curly haired guy that gets under my skin ..
 
ya i trust Atwater alot more thant the curly headed guy from Sandhurst on the military channel
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The curly headed guy makes for great comic relief. He always ends his statements by ridiculously overstating whatever it is he's talking about. He sounds a little like a fundamentalist preacher.

He wouldn't say, "the M1 is an effective tank", he'd say, "THE M1 WILL DEVASTATE EVERYTHING UNTIL IT IS ABSOLUTELY EVISCERATED AND DEAD!!!!"
 
Yeah, I like Dr. Atwater a lot. He always wears the issue USMC tie bar(officer's version has the silver eagle, globe, anchor) and the Purple heart lapel pin. I picked up on that the first time I saw him on the History channel.
All the wierd hyper-active whispering that Machowicz guy does on "Future Weapons" is creepy, it's like he's speed freak trying to chat up some chicks on a golf course........hahaha!
 
Yeah i remember the guy on futureweapons saying that about the 7.62 and referring to both the 7.62x39 and 7.62x51 in the same statement with it and sounding totally stupid. He also does do that weird hyperactive whispering stuff a little too much too.

That curly headed guy is really funny when talking about the FAL on one of the countdowns about how the brits were picking up argentine FAL's
He makes me laugh, and is also sometimes rather annoying. Atwater is by far the best, but does have a weird head though.
 
The curly headed guy makes for great comic relief. He always ends his statements by ridiculously overstating whatever it is he's talking about.
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Haha, Dr. Aryeh Nusbacher. He's definitely a strange dude. I think he does it on purpose, hamming it up for television, because nobody can, unknowingly, be that obnoxious.
 
It was a modern marvels episode. If i recall correctly, that large man demonstrating the differences between the m16 models actually likes the AK a lot more. He claims so on another show called the top 10 combat rifles of all time.
 
tniet2004 said:

"They said that the gun jammed a lot .. I was a little surprised .."

I don't know if the episode in question went in to it but, it is amazing that we still have the M16 considering the poor start it got in Vietnam due to:

1) misinformation about cleaning it.
2) failure to provide cleaning equipment.
3) the changing of powder types between proving ammo and issue ammo.

Jams cost some lives over there. Sad. No excuse. McNamara caught some heat over this. But, it is the Army brass's fault as well.

As usual, it seems like the guys in the field figured out what was wrong and tried their best to start fixing things. I remember my old ROTC Sgts talking about this back in the 70s when I was at UNA. One was a Green Beret and the other was a Ranger. They loved the M16. They had the best stories.
 
Atwater has THE Dream Job!

I've seen him on other shows walking through the back rooms of the arsenal museum and coming to a crate. Then he mentions, casually, that "This crate was shipped in August of 1944 to Europe and never opened, it has 20 new Thompsons and magazines in it. Let's take a look."

They open the crate and there are brand new Thompsons', or BARs or Garands, 1911s, all in the original wrapping and excelsior packing with magazines inw axed paper. Never touched and never fired. He puts on his white cotton gloves to prevent leaving acidic fingerprints, takes one out and cycles it. Then sets it back down and has the crate put back on the shelf.

Every now and then he gets to take some of the pieces out and test fire them at the arsenal range. And, he gets paid to do it!

Very nice, deceptively soft spoken and well educated man with the job I want.

That's what I call a dream job.
 
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :D :D :D
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Thought someone would get the giggles.....Just so long as Atwater doesn't follow the same path please.....please God no.....:D
 
i. cant. handle. the. comedic. over. load....
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AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA anyone else geting a very vindictive "i knew it!" thought right now! oh sweet lord i cant stip laughing..

well hey! maybe now he wont be on The Military Channel anymore
 
Thank God he/she has not made the Sun's page 3 idols yet. (Yes I checked them all :) ) Thanks for the link everallm, I had almost forgot about the differences in English and American newspapers.
 
Rita Machowicz i can see it now. a huge guy in pigtails and a sundress doing his tactical wisper
 
ROFL:D I thought he was the bad guy from Ghost, yup cant stand him, well or her either

Love the history channel, I have left work early to watch the secret weapons of WWII maraton when it first came on.

Dr Atwater is one of the coolest people you could ever meet, nice, down to earth and knows close to everything about anything that ever went BANG. Post 9/11 security at Aberdeen makes it hard for civilians to get to the ordinance museum, but for active, former, or retired military and their families it is definitely worth the trip. They have a couple dozen tanks lined up on the road to the museum from that little WWI french thing to the M1 abrams. I met Dr Atwater briefly on a visit with my dad to the museum a few years ago and can say that anyone who has the pleasure of meeting the man is in for a real treat, he knows a few stories about every single item in the museum.
 
WOW! I can't wait until the next episode when he/she explains why the M-1 tank should be painted hot pink! I found him quite entertaining; I guess it may have been his rather flamboyant enthusiasm............
 
Oh, you'd be surprised how many TS women are in, or have been in, the military. It's a concentrator. like Computer Science, or Academia.

Lynette taught at Sandhurst, I taught CompSci at the Australian Defence Force Academy, so scored the Trifecta. With "Flaboyant Enthusiasm", I'll admit, some students told me so at the time.

And Hot Pink is actually a pretty decent cammo in the desert.

SAS "Pink Panther" Landrover

Another gal I know is former SASR.
 
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