[TML] New Member & the Sylean Rangers

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Weapons cleaning in Death Valley (shudder). That'll teach ya, playing "Rat Patrol" with a deuce-and-a-half.

Cougashika - been there, didn't do that

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	Douglas Berry <penguin_boy at mindspring.com>, on Tue, Aug 05, 2008 04:36 PM, waved:
>
>Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>> On 8/4/08 9:16 PM, "Douglas Berry" <peng
uin_boy at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> ... putting something that actually happened to me in the "So There I 
Was"
>>> sidebar ...
>> 
>> The look-a-like for the general's car?  Or maybe the excessive force on the
>> sniper...

>The encounter between g-carriers in the training area. It really took 
>place at Fort Irwin, Ca (the National Training Center, fondly known >as 
>"Planet Irwin") when I was there with the 197th Infantry Brigade 
>(Mechanized) (Separate). I was on an ice and water run with my buddy, 
>and we spotted an OPFOR deuce and a half. I had a .50 on the ring 
>mounts, so I opened up on him. He fired back. We raced for about five 
>miles before we both ran out of blanks. 2.5 ton trucks were *not* 
>equipped with the MILES sensors that combat vehicles had.
>
>Doug, who had to clean the damn .50...



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