Humor in Uniform 6/5/2010

[R J]

6/5/2010
Few people know what a quartermaster does.  So during my aircraft carrier’s Family Day, I demonstrated a procedure called semaphore---- I grabbed my flags and signaled an imaginary boat.   When finished, I pointed to a little girl in the front and asked, “Now do you know what I do?”    “Yes” she said. “You’re a cheerleader.”
Danny Sullivan   

[Jabba]

You MARINES would say the Navy was FULL of cheerleaders though wouldn't you?

Muscles
Are
Required
Intelligence
Not
Essential

The military is FULL of acronyms.

 

Jabba

[Sludge]

Hey we Marines are a department of the Navy ya know...

the MENS DEPARTMENT 

[Jabba]

Hey we Marines are a department of the Navy ya know...

the MENS DEPARTMENT  

Yeah I've heard that LOTS of times.  

You know why they put Marines on Navy ships?  So the squids have someone to dance with.

Side note... I saw a 2 hour documentary the other night about Marine snipers, and the work they have done in modern times.  They did a part on Carlos Hathcock.   Plus the Nam era guy that had more kills than him, as well as a couple of new gulf region snipers that have eclipsed the 100 confirmed kill mark, and a Canadian sniper that set a new range record of 2430 meters in Afghanistan!!  They even did a spot on one of them that set a distance record for 30 Cal confirmed kill.  1250 yards, with a .308!!!  Wow.  The guy held 14' high and 11' to the left and hit the dude center of mass.

Those guys are bad ass.  If I'd have been a grunt instead of a bubblehead, I'd have tried to go the sniper route.

Jabba

[Sludge]

Chuck Mawhinney is the other Marine sniper you were trying to think of.  The 1250yd kill for the .308 doesnt surprise me really.  Folks shoot .308win here at our local 1,000yd range alot.  Its a pretty dead round at that distance, but stretching it a couple hundred yds farther doesnt surprise me. 

The Canadian shot has been beat now.  A British sniper team using a .338 Lapua Mag shot from a Accuracy International rifle wiped out a machine gun crew in Afghanistan a couple of months ago 2706yds or 1.54 miles.  The Canadian record was 2657yds.

[Jabba]

Chuck Mawhinney is the other Marine sniper you were trying to think of.  The 1250yd kill for the .308 doesnt surprise me really.  Folks shoot .308win here at our local 1,000yd range alot.  Its a pretty dead round at that distance, but stretching it a couple hundred yds farther doesnt surprise me. 

The Canadian shot has been beat now.  A British sniper team using a .338 Lapua Mag shot from a Accuracy International rifle wiped out a machine gun crew in Afghanistan a couple of months ago 2706yds or 1.54 miles.  The Canadian record was 2657yds.

Yeah... that's the guy.  Chuck Mawhinney.  I really liked the fact that that show was not done with any touchy feeley hand wringing, but rather as a OOH-Rah, fact of life, kill the bad guy sort of approach.

Jabba

[R J]

Hey we Marines are a department of the Navy ya know...

the MENS DEPARTMENT 

Sludge, ya got it wrong, the Navy is a part of the Marine Corps..

We are a part of NO ONE, just ask my old DI in Boot Camp....  LOL

[Sludge]

Chuck was great and has my full respect and admiration.  Dont get me wrong, but if Hathcock hadnt been burned up on top of that amtrac... who knows how many kills he would have had. 

I wasnt a Marine sniper or anything like that.  I was just a CH-46 crewchief.   However, Im not a shabby shot.  I easily shot expert every time I was at the range.  Never could quite ace it though, but I got close a couple of times.  Anyway, when I got home I thought... if i could consistantly hit a man at 500yds with iron sights.. what could I do if I went  to a scope.  From there on its been a love affair with the long shot and the art of hand loading for accuracy.  First it was 500yds, then 600 then 700, then 800...  The more I learn, the more I find to learn.  Many may not believe it but its a very academic thing when you start pushing on out at 1000yds etc.  I have the greatest respect for these kids who under pressure put these shots down range.  My hats off to ya boys!

[Jabba]

Sludge, ya got it wrong, the Navy is a part of the Marine Corps..

We are a part of NO ONE, just ask my old DI in Boot Camp....  LOL

Your DI would be WRONG RJ.

Your ID card said "Dept of the NAVY".   

Jabba

[Jabba]

Chuck was great and has my full respect and admiration.  Dont get me wrong, but if Hathcock hadnt been burned up on top of that amtrac... who knows how many kills he would have had. 

I wasnt a Marine sniper or anything like that.  I was just a CH-46 crewchief.   However, Im not a shabby shot.  I easily shot expert every time I was at the range.  Never could quite ace it though, but I got close a couple of times.  Anyway, when I got home I thought... if i could consistantly hit a man at 500yds with iron sights.. what could I do if I went  to a scope.  From there on its been a love affair with the long shot and the art of hand loading for accuracy.  First it was 500yds, then 600 then 700, then 800...  The more I learn, the more I find to learn.  Many may not believe it but its a very academic thing when you start pushing on out at 1000yds etc.  I have the greatest respect for these kids who under pressure put these shots down range.  My hats off to ya boys!

I am a solid shot.  Both on the bench and in hunting situations.  Both as a shot gunner and a rifleman.  But that is at what you'd consider CLOSE range.  Out to 150 yards or so.  But I do that with a MUZZLELOADER and a 450 grain bullet.


Jabba