Rainin steady here still, been an all night event... not good! I think the intersection at the South facility where I am headed this mornin is prawbly flooded too, anudder detour! adds 8 miles to an already 25 mile trip!
Mornin, y'all. No matter how early I get up, I'm always late in here.
Originally Posted by gs34doc
Surprised my Daughter on her 16th Christmas with a Browning Buckmark .22. Next Christmas, she asked for a 9 mil with a silencer. Told her that wasn't gonna happen.
That 50 cal triggered one of them memories...
Had guard duty in one of the perimeter towers one night when we got hit by rockets. I was pissing off the back side when the first one hit, best view in the house. I would say it scared the **** outta me, but it only finished the job. Talk about feeling helpless, with your d*ck hanging out, no place to duck...
Anyway, got a call on the landline to put holes in the jungle to discourage visitors, so machine guns and grenade launchers went off around the whole base perimeter, most tracers I ever saw at one time. We had one of those Browning 50s and a couple M60s (my toy at the time) and the guy on the 50 was firing about 10 rounds bursts. Just so happened he timed it just right, and the recoil got the tower (on poles like telephone poles) to swaying a back and forth. It was kind of fun and terrifying at the same time; how far would it swing before the poles broke? Fortunately we never found out, it held together. If anyone had planned to visit us after the rockets stopped, must have changed their minds, nobody came. The big ring of gunsmoke around the base in the moonlight would've made a great photo if I'd had the camera for it.
01-12-2018, 06:00 AM
