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Good to know he can be met in the flesh. I always assumed he was a replicant given his skills. As serious as he is about his craft, he is refreshingly also a seemingly big kid who loves his job, something you don't often see in dedicated professionals. I still watch his Barrett .50BMG sequences...

In another life I performed a lot of technical service to medical laboratories around the U.S. This included government facilities like the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton when I was living in San Diego. In even the life before that I was with the U.S. Army in Vietnam, both Air and Armored...

We had several M113 ACAV's in 2/11th ACR equipped with the Mk19. Not useful in heavy bush but in more open areas....

We were still using the VSS-1 Xenon searchlights when i served. 😄

Correct, no M60 or A1 had the LRF's. It was integral to the A2 and the later A3 came out several years after I ETS'd. I never experienced TTS, only the PVS-1 Starlight Scope in VN.

The LRF comments are gratifying to hear. My first Test Project at the Armor & Engineer Board (Ft. Knox) was the add-on Hughes LRF which began in March or April of 1972. Lengthy project on which I fired many rounds. Relatively trouble free & an improvement on the choke reticle if the target was...

Thanks, I do have a certain amount of experience on select armor/cavalry/vietnam-cold war topics. The article's author has a great deal of influence in certain communities, which is why I commented, as it's worth of correction. His experience was apparently with the "three quarter" Cav, one of...

While I have the greatest respect for Dale Dye, there are a number of significant and misleading comments in his assessment. 1. The 152mm gun/launcher was most definitely not a smoothbore. It was rifled with a keyway cut at the 6 o'clock position that a key on the Shillelagh Missile ventral side...