Wow, talk about a fantasy

[scout26]

Let's see... there also 50ft of Ground Guide and my personal favorite Squelch Grease.

While pulling maintence in the motor pool, I sent a new troop one time to get squelch grease, he takes off at the double time from the motor pool to the commo shop. Upon hearing that the LT needs sqeulch grease for the 442, Commo Sergeant pulls out a tube of the army issue white chapstick and smears a glob on the end of the newbie's outstretched index finger. Newbie double times back to motor and proudly reports that he has obtained said sqeulch grease for his platoon leader. Platoon Leader (yours truly) scrunches up face into that "Close, but no cigar" expression. My Platoon Sergeant (and a former Drill Instructor), just goes off. "(Vulgar expressions), can't you see that the LT needs the aerosol not the solid. (Many more vulgar expressions, mostly detailing the newbie's lack of genetic makeup, his single digit IQ, his parents total failure to teach/raise him properly, etc.) "You tell that no good (more vulgar expressions, without any repeats) Commo sergeant that the LT needs the aerosol NOW !!!! "

Newbie takes off for commo shed like he'd been shot out of a cannon. Still dutifully holding outstretched finger with "Squelch Grease."

Platoon Sergeant bows deeply from the waist, as he receives a "Golf Clap" standing ovation from the remainder of the platoon, once newbie is out of sight/earshot of motor pool.

Newbie comes back to report that we are out of aerosol squelch grease and it's backordered on the "1D10T" form, that the LT signed off on a couple days ago. (Squelch grease is still on outstretched index finger). Other members of the platoon are dutifully checking on the straps holding the camo nets on the tailgates of the HMMWV's while desperately trying not to laugh.

PL and PSG quickly confer and determine that we can use the field expedient method and "try" the solid squelch grease, but newibie is informed by PSG, that he has contaminated it by PUTTING IT ON YOUR FINGER !!!! While PSG explores/details said newbie's entire family history/geneology with great gusto and aplomb and it's effects upon said newbie's brain chemistry and makeup. Other platoon members are actively seeking places to hide and/or pinching themselves not to laugh out loud.

Newbie takes off like he has a rocket up his butt. (and still has "contaminated" squelch grease on his index finger).

Now mind you, he's also getting an earful from the commo sergeant about how "dumb" the PL/PSG are when it comes to radios and maintaining them.

Newbie comes running back. He has the look of death on his face, he is Custer at the Little Big Horn, it's a no-win situation and he's got the short straw. Stick a fork in him, he's done.

"Sergeant Haste says this is the last of the Squelch Grease." As he looks at us with "Bambi eyes" he extends his index finger toward us in the hope and prayer that either A) God will strike him dead right then and there thus ending his misery and avoiding another indepth exploration of "EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH YOU" by his PSG, or B) his humble offering will be found to be worthy and workable and he will be forgiven his sins of ignorance.

I totally lost it at that point and then so did everyone else. He looked so pitiful and helpless, it would have been like kicking the family dog. My PSG was in tears, he was laughing so hard. Newbie took in stride once he was let "in" on the joke. He turned out to be one of my better troops.


Scout26- "Former Space Shuttle Door Gunner Instructor" (NOT)

 

[dedguy805]

USMC

so i did an impromtu poll. I am a Lcpl in The USMC. I am in the Airwing not a ground pounder. i polled 5 Marines. Two had heard that a .50 would rip an arm off with a close miss.( close miss was 3-5 feet). the other 3 said why believe something until you see it. My thinking on this is misinformation. Or just a joke told by some instructor. I remeber telling a boot private to go get me 10 yards of flightline from toolroom.(that was funny) I am also thinking you could ask this same question to grunts and get some real opinions. If i get the time i will talk to Gysgt who has real life expirience.I will also be talking to the pilots of the f-18. i think that is an 30mm cannon maybe they can shed some light on the subject. All I know is that I am calling Mythbusters.

 

[thegriz]

gull auto 9mm

hexidismal wrote:

Whoo, yea.. there was this one time.. when my friend was at the range with his 9mm, and all of a sudden it went full auto , becuase we gun people know that happens .. you know, if you ever use the slide release on an empty chamber ... and when that happend, it nailed about 50% of the endangered species on the planet into extinction. He swears its true!

hexi,

This happened to my brother when I was a teenager. Well, minus the part about killing all of creation. We were shooting in an improvised indoor range in the basement of a not-in-use-anymore church building. My brother's cheap 9mm fired 3 or 4 shots full auto. The last shot was fired straight up through the ceiling. My brother's eye's were BIG. It turned out it had a worn seer or something. I'm not sure what he did with the gun. I think it was the first pistol he ever owned. My family owns the old church building for storage - the hole is still there.

I think many of the tall stories are based on true stories that changed over time. I had all but forgotten my story until I saw this thread. I called my other brother who was also there just to make sure I didn't just dream this up. People who are not knowledgable about firearms can change some key details and there you go.

 

[DRMMR02]

so i did an impromtu poll. I am a Lcpl in The USMC. I am in the Airwing not a ground pounder. i polled 5 Marines. Two had heard that a .50 would rip an arm off with a close miss.( close miss was 3-5 feet). the other 3 said why believe something until you see it. My thinking on this is misinformation. Or just a joke told by some instructor. I remeber telling a boot private to go get me 10 yards of flightline from toolroom.(that was funny) I am also thinking you could ask this same question to grunts and get some real opinions. If i get the time i will talk to Gysgt who has real life expirience.I will also be talking to the pilots of the f-18. i think that is an 30mm cannon maybe they can shed some light on the subject. All I know is that I am calling Mythbusters.

I would be the VAST majority of these stories start out as practical jokes or stories told by E5s to E1s

 

[mljdeckard]

Every bullet will produce a shock ripple as it leaves the muzzle. This is from the volume of hot gas produced by the powder. Those of us who have been next the guy shooting the 686 know this. This does not translate to having a trail of shock follow the bullet along its path. If this were true, how could you use a paper target for a .50 BMG?

But let's be reasonable. Who here has ever heard of any 'non contact' energy injury from any firearm? If this was common, it would be documented.

As for the guy who had a guy tell him that a .50 bullet penetrated an armored vehicle and sucked the crew out the exit hole, no a .50 won't do that. The sabot from the 120 on the M1A1/A2 absolutely will. We were advised at Knox that there is a cone projecting from the muzzle that you don't want to be standing within when the gun is fired, and I believe it, but the cone is so narrow as to be pretty much in line with the muzzle, for all safety purposes. When tanks fire in dust, you can see the effect, but I think for it to be lethal you would have to be way too close to that muzzle in the first place.

Hydrostatic shock, water rippling through the body as a bullet hits, has turned out to be no big deal. The only organ not elastic enough to absorb this is the liver. So, a .223 hitting the body is just that.

When I was a kid, we had heard that shooting jerry cans full of gas made them explode. When that didn't work, we tried some .06 API rounds. Does a whole lot of burning sagebrush count as an explosion?

They tried to send me to commo for a can of squelch. I did have a new kid check the armor on the 113's for soft spots with a hammer.

 

[LanEvo`]

I have been hit by a .45ACP ricochet at a USPSA practice night. It hit me in the leg after ricocheting off a metal popper, felt about like being hit by a two-pump bb gun.

When I took my brother-in-law shooting a few months back, I was hit square in the chest by one of the 185gr. JSWC rounds he was shooting from my CZ-97B. It hit the steel backstop at a funny angle and ricocheted right into my chest. I could almost see it...sort of a white line coming at me. Hurt like hell and left a small welt...but it didn't tear my arm off

 

[1911Tuner]

War Zones

Militiaman wrote:

>That and the part where it shows the Marines all dug in next to a road throwing pebbles in mind numbing bordom when one Marine comments that they should make a war move that is 6 hours long with 15 minutes of fight scene, cause that is what war is--the rest is throwing pebbles.<
**********

Pretty much sums it up. 98% sheer boredom and mind-numbing routine, punctuated by a few moments of stark terror.

 

[Gunsmoker]

Stratomole, the problem is you couldn't have been extracted by Navy Seals; they didn't exist until 18 years after WW2 ended.

That's what you think. I've been a Navy Seal/Army Ranger since 1920.

 

[Glockfan.45]

When I was a kid, we had heard that shooting jerry cans full of gas made them explode. When that didn't work, we tried some .06 API rounds. Does a whole lot of burning sagebrush count as an explosion?

Did you leave expansion room in the can for vapors to build up? I have always heard doing this with a half full gas can on a hot day using tracers will cause quite the boom. Never tried it but sounds possible.

 

[mljdeckard]

We did leave space, but we couldn't tell for sure if we hit below the line or not.

 

[Axman]

When I was a kid, we had heard that shooting jerry cans full of gas made them explode. When that didn't work, we tried some .06 API rounds. Does a whole lot of burning sagebrush count as an explosion?

I think that's TV A-Team style theatrics. After all, if you shoot a Jeep it'll veer off the road and find a convenient mount of dirt to send it into a rollover!