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  • #31
    Well, I did fire an M-60 ... exactly once ... other than that I was a Radio Operator in the Signals Company of Sydney University Regiment (CMF - '
    Citizen Military Forces' [Chockos or Chokos ... 'Chocolate Soldiers'] back in the day, 74-75, now Army Reserve ... rather like the US ROTC) and my main weapon was an SLR with a missing foresight screw (completely inaccurate, couldn't be sighted in ) ...

    We used AN-PRC/25 sets, leftovers from Vietnam, while the Regs had -26s ... ghu knows what they have now!

    Phil

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    • #32
      That is so memeory lane

      My First MOS Airborne radio operator.
      Eight weeks of Morse code so I could carry around a prick 25 errs perhaps I should not put it that way but that was the name we gave all the prc radios.
      Lucky I went to Arty OCS and traded the radio off to a spec 4. A few years ahead of you in 66 to 70.
      Laugh you may have e had my set let me see did it have the initials HO and d BD in the left bottom
      Tis better to do than to do not.
      Tis better to act than react.
      Tis better to have a battery of 105's than not.
      Tis better to see them afor they see you.

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      • #33
        welllll

        Originally posted by StainlessSteelCynic View Post
        Hey LT, Legbreaker ain't the only Aussie MG operator here

        I used to be a '60 operator before I got put into a recce platoon.
        I did say certain
        Tis better to do than to do not.
        Tis better to act than react.
        Tis better to have a battery of 105's than not.
        Tis better to see them afor they see you.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by LT. Ox View Post
          My First MOS Airborne radio operator.
          Eight weeks of Morse code so I could carry around a prick 25 errs perhaps I should not put it that way but that was the name we gave all the prc radios.
          Lucky I went to Arty OCS and traded the radio off to a spec 4. A few years ahead of you in 66 to 70.
          Laugh you may have e had my set let me see did it have the initials HO and d BD in the left bottom
          Don't recall any initials inscribed anywhere ... and at least they were better than the old Korean war era HF sets that kept drifting off frequency (which we were shown during training, had in unit store, IIRC, but certainly never used) ... Company Sigs were purely voice or telephone, no Morse, thanks be to Ghu!

          Phil

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          • #35
            Morse

            I never could understand the training. We were to use code if the voice was too difficult to understand say below a 2by2.
            Never happened. Operator did have a key issued but like I said I never used nor knew of anyone using one.
            I was the FO and my radioman did a whole lot of adjusting when the shmue hit the fan and I was a bit far for voice contact or it was a bit loud.
            I was not about to jog over to his position if we were separated and I had no intention of calling him to me so we had an understanding after about two weeks that he became a designated FO.
            I lost two radiomen the first tour One KIA and the other bad hit. None the second but then I did not finish, only a little over six months.
            A bit of advice; do not sit in a jeep on several of the old flak vests and use a vehicle mounted radio when stopped on a command detonated landmine.
            Tis better to do than to do not.
            Tis better to act than react.
            Tis better to have a battery of 105's than not.
            Tis better to see them afor they see you.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by LT. Ox View Post
              A bit of advice; do not sit in a jeep on several of the old flak vests and use a vehicle mounted radio when stopped on a command detonated landmine.
              Yeah, that will tend to put a bit of a crimp in your day...
              If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

              Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

              Mors ante pudorem

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
                Yeah, that will tend to put a bit of a crimp in your day...
                "a crimp in your day"
                More like needing a crowbar to pry your "day" out of Where the Sun Don't Shine.
                "Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.

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                • #38
                  Result

                  Originally posted by WallShadow View Post
                  "a crimp in your day"
                  More like needing a crowbar to pry your "day" out of Where the Sun Don't Shine.
                  See the flying young man without a trapeze. Result;
                  Hit tree with left shoulder at mach too fast
                  Left arm then pointing from left breast area, push arm back into somewhere close to socket while laying on ground pull .45 and hold over head while in supine position and empty said weapon as fast as I can pull trigger, drop mag with one hand and reach to get next mag on belt forgetting that left arm is not quite right, pass out.
                  Next memory
                  Being kicked in the feet by Sargent who askes oeLT. Ox you alive or dead while reaching down to give me a hand, yep he is holding his 16 in his right with the butt on his hip so he is reaching down with his left and of course the nineteen year old idiot that has just experienced his second near death episode reaches IP with his left hand sergeant takes hand Lt. passes out and wakes to the wonderful sound of whop whop whop.
                  Ears no longer at rated ability
                  And another war story is told yet again.
                  Tis better to do than to do not.
                  Tis better to act than react.
                  Tis better to have a battery of 105's than not.
                  Tis better to see them afor they see you.

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