And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Parked the 4.2 (107mm) in the early 90s , the heavy mortars are 120mm. Think that’s a 120mm but not ours. Had a battery of 6 track mounted 4.2s in an armor battalion. We could throw a lot of weight down range fast. Never understood why the 101st and 82d had towed 105s when the 4.2 shot faster, further.
One Earth-shattering kaboom on the way.
ReplyDeleteMaxed charge there buddy?
ReplyDelete81's, a battalion commander's personal artillery
ReplyDeleteCannot pay these soldiers enough. No wonder they lose their hearing.
ReplyDeleteToo big and too tall for an 81, IMHO. Looks more like a 4.2" to me. Fired a few; not many.
ReplyDeleteI like the "fresh footprints prior to every round" effect.
Definitely not an 81 and has to be a 4 deuce unless it's foreign.
Delete"To Whom It May Concern..."
ReplyDeleteRetRsvMike
"To whom it *will* concern..."
DeleteI could definitely fire that from my shoulder
ReplyDeleteParked the 4.2 (107mm) in the early 90s , the heavy mortars are 120mm. Think that’s a 120mm but not ours.
ReplyDeleteHad a battery of 6 track mounted 4.2s in an armor battalion. We could throw a lot of weight down range fast. Never understood why the 101st and 82d had towed 105s when the 4.2 shot faster, further.
Bend down when it launches, and get a face full of sand.
ReplyDeleteWhen you care enough to send the very best, and you want to say:
ReplyDelete"Eff that guy over there, and the twenty guys closest to him, but it's too far for machinegun fire, and anyways, he's behind the crest of that hill."