Guns & Gun Related Stuff

[bighomer]

I wish Jerry ,that rifle was displayed at the Big Red One reunion in Chicago a couple of years ago.

[jerryd6818]

I asked because of the fiberglass hand guard. In boot camp, we were issued brand new M-14s still in cosmoline. They had the slotted hand guard. I know later the hand guard was changed to solid because the one with the slots was deemed too "fragile". So I was just noting the era of that rifle.

Since I'm on hand guards, the first ones in the late '50s were wood. They were changed to fiberglass as a weight saving measure.

OCD attack.

[bighomer]

Thats good info Jerry, I honestly didn't know that and don't remember what type the one I carried in boot camp or the one in Nam had.

[Black Lion]

WH backatcha, Bighomer! So you were at the reunion at Cantigny, huh? Well here's something you didn't see but will be there one day once my project is complete. I've also got a collection of trail cards but they're a bit too risque to be posted.

[bighomer]

That's the only reunion I've made. I've been a life member of the society of the first division for several years. Used to post on the BRO forum but it's about dead, most of the guys over there went to facebook, I don't do facebook. I was in D battery 8/6 arty in '66.

[Black Lion]

Which were you on....155mm or 8"? That reunion...I'm sure they arranged trips out to Cantigny but pretty sure it was based in Lombard, IL. Yep, a lot of RVN sites have pulled the plug it seems. Used to subscribe to the Bridgehead Sentinel but gave that up once the 28th got their assoc. going. Nowadays everything is online anymore so no more mailings anyway....'cept for email. I don't do facebook either. Don't care for their "we own it" policy on anything put there. Also don't like them stuffing junk into my registry.

BTW...found this email addy for the 8/6th...a "Boz" Boswell is the contact person.

[email protected]

--- bill

[bighomer]

Black lion I found that addy years ago,tried it never got a response .I was in the 8 inch battery. Yes we had trips to Cantigny, I had visited it on my on a few years ago very interesting place a lot of history. Anyone with an interest in military history would enjoy Cantigny. The Bridgehead Sentinel is still published 4 times a year.

[jerryd6818]

[Black Lion]

Mine's bigger than yours.

[jerryd6818]

It most certainly is. The Army gets all the new stuff.

[Quick Steel]

I sometimes felt a little guilty about the Marines being so far down the logistics chain. Not that I had anything to do with it. I remember during Desert Storm noting that the Marine tankers were driving M 60 series tanks.[ A fine tank by the way; lots of experience with them in Germany and the U.S.] The Army of course deployed with the game changing Abrams. Back in the 1960s the Army rejected an anti-tank weapon called "The Ontos" = the Thing. Soon it turned up in the Marine Corps at least for a while.

While I am as proud of my Army service as you Marines are of yours, I've always felt the Corps deserved better by its leadership.

[jerryd6818]

Two or three of the guys I went through boot camp with were in Ontos in Viet Nam. One of them is still alive (the deaths of the others having nothing to do with Ontos )

Edit: It wasn't the Corps leadership that screwed the Corps on it's budget.

[Quick Steel]

I consider the Navy brass as being in your chain. No? And I suspect they were much more interested in financing the super carriers with their super planes much more than taking care of the Corps. Am I wrong?

[jerryd6818]

Well yes, sorta but not exactly.

•The Marine Corps follows two parallel chains of command, one service and the other operational. The service chain begins with the president, through the secretary of defense, and continues through the secretary of the Navy and the commandant of the Marine Corps. The operational chain runs from the president, through the secretary of defense, directly to commanders of combatant commands.

Notice at no time below the Secretary of the Navy does the chain of command mix. As far as the politics of that whole mess, only God knows 'cause I sure don't. I can tell you this. The Marine Corps has always been on the smelly end of the stick as far as budgets are concerned.

[Colonel26]

I sometimes felt a little guilty about the Marines being so far down the logistics chain. Not that I had anything to do with it. I remember during Desert Storm noting that the Marine tankers were driving M 60 series tanks.[ A fine tank by the way; lots of experience with them in Germany and the U.S.] The Army of course deployed with the game changing Abrams. Back in the 1960s the Army rejected an anti-tank weapon called "The Ontos" = the Thing. Soon it turned up in the Marine Corps at least for a while.

While I am as proud of my Army service as you Marines are of yours, I've always felt the Corps deserved better by its leadership.

Who needs budgets and toys when you have the ghost of Chesty and Gen. Mattis? Oooh rah!

[jerryd6818]

Don't forget Gunny Dan Dailey, Lt. Presley O'Bannon and a whole bunch more down through the years.

[Black Lion]

I sometimes felt a little guilty about the Marines being so far down the logistics chain. Not that I had anything to do with it. I remember during Desert Storm noting that the Marine tankers were driving M 60 series tanks.[ A fine tank by the way; lots of experience with them in Germany and the U.S.] The Army of course deployed with the game changing Abrams. Back in the 1960s the Army rejected an anti-tank weapon called "The Ontos" = the Thing. Soon it turned up in the Marine Corps at least for a while.

While I am as proud of my Army service as you Marines are of yours, I've always felt the Corps deserved better by its leadership.

It's not so much what you drive as where you drive it.

[jerryd6818]

Who called the wrecker?

Shirt happens.

Ya see. That's what happens when you turn a bunch of 19 year oldz loose with a dangerous weapon.

[CheckSix]

Who called the wrecker?

Shirt happens.

Ya see. That's what happens when you turn a bunch of 19 year oldz loose with a dangerous weapon.

yet, they are still bad a$$es! full of bad a$$ery.

[Quick Steel]

Nor shall I forget, Sgt. York, Audy Murphy, or men like Maj. General Danial "Dutch" Cota who rallied the demoralized troops on Omaha beach and personally led them "over the top." May God bless all of our greats, both known and unknown.

[rangerbluedog]

Wellz, ya don't know the boundaries till you fall off the edge.

(referring to those 19 year olds playing with that expensive "off road vehicle".)

[Colonel26]

Don't forget Gunny Dan Dailey, Lt. Presley O'Bannon and a whole bunch more down through the years.

Absolutely! Presley O'Bannon and Dan Dailey were two tough hombres.

[Colonel26]

Nor shall I forget, Sgt. York, Audy Murphy, or men like Maj. General Danial "Dutch" Cota who rallied the demoralized troops on Omaha beach and personally led them "over the top." May God bless all of our greats, both known and unknown.

Great men all. I guess we could add Generals George Patton and Anthony McAulffie too. And the list could go on and on. We do have a great heritage.

[zp4ja]

SIG SAUER Max Michel designed SIG Custom Shop 1911. Called " SIG 1911 MAX" All sorts of whistle and bell enhancements. He is Captain of the SIG Shooting Team and pretty darn good at that.
Jerry

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/1911-max-full-size.html

[Colonel26]

SIG SAUER Max Michel designed SIG Custom Shop 1911. Called " SIG 1911 MAX" All sorts of whistle and bell enhancements. He is Captain of the SIG Shooting Team and pretty darn good at that.
Jerry

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/1911-max-full-size.html

I'm a fan of 1911's anyway! But that is a beauty. Here while back I shot an officer size Sig 1911 and it was a real nice gun. Very well made and accurate to boot. I'm sure you'll love yours!