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re: My son just left for basic training
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:34 am to El Segundo Guy
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:34 am to El Segundo Guy
Speaking of lettered patterns, did you train your young gunners to use the “G pattern” when laying on target?
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Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:41 am to Darth_Vader
If the were having problems at UCOFT and the it was called AGS or something like that. On the A1 Heavy Common, you had to dump the Cadillacs so you weren't inducing lead. On the A2s, you didn't have to. As long as the cadillacs weren't moving when you hit the laser, there's be no lead.
Inducing lead and the reticle jump back to center of mass on the A1s on a moving target was tricky, but the A2s fire control system had a more intuitive ballistic solution process.
Whatever you're doing to the cadillacs when you laze is the ballistic solution when you pull triggers.
Inducing lead and the reticle jump back to center of mass on the A1s on a moving target was tricky, but the A2s fire control system had a more intuitive ballistic solution process.
Whatever you're doing to the cadillacs when you laze is the ballistic solution when you pull triggers.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 10:43 am
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:43 am to El Segundo Guy
I barely missed out on the A2s. I started on the M1IP that had the same 105 as the M60A3 and ended on the M1A1. I saw some A2, never crewed one though.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:54 am to Darth_Vader
You would have enjoyed the TC 50 call engagement on the A2. Didn't have the wonky inside the turret TC cupula while looking out the vision blocks of the previous M1s and A1s.
You got up outside the cypula and John Wayned that sucker. Just make sure you dont hit the CITV in front of the loader's hatch on top of the turret. We'd have that 50 called barrel glowing red.
You got up outside the cypula and John Wayned that sucker. Just make sure you dont hit the CITV in front of the loader's hatch on top of the turret. We'd have that 50 called barrel glowing red.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 10:57 am
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:01 am to El Segundo Guy
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You would have enjoyed the TC 50 call engagement on the A2. Didn't have the wonky inside the turret TC cupula while looking out the vision blocks of the previous M1s and A1s.
I never liked the TC’s power controls on the .50. It was easier to use manual. I did notice the A2 was different. I think I’d have like it much more than what I had on the A1.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:04 am to Darth_Vader
The A1 was a nightmare. The A2 was John Wayne style like the loader's 240. You could set left and right lateral swing limits, lock it down easily and just point, shoot and walk it on.
Even if i shot the target quickly, I was expending the whole 100 round box, it was so fun.
The tower would be yelling "target, target ceasefire" and I'd be rocking.
Even if i shot the target quickly, I was expending the whole 100 round box, it was so fun.
The tower would be yelling "target, target ceasefire" and I'd be rocking.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 11:08 am
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:32 pm to wareaglepete
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Yes, language school.
Your son has to be a very smart young man. Qualifying for DLIFLC is quite hard. A small number of graduates with the teaching knack are sometimes retained as instructors, but I suspect that duty assignment in Korea is far more interesting and better for making rank.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:39 pm to Tree_Fall
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Your son has to be a very smart young man. Qualifying for DLIFLC is quite hard.
He’s smarter than his old man. He’s just like my father. Very high level intelligence but common sense just eludes him. My father could build a nuclear power plant but up to he day he died he couldn’t figure out how to set the clock on the microwave.
This post was edited on 6/10/25 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 6/11/25 at 5:54 am to King Crab
Kudo's to him for volunteering for the army. This is the exact day that I left for basic many years ago at 17 years old. 8 weeks later my family was on the parade ground at Ft. Polk, LA. watching my gradution. Be proud!
Posted on 6/11/25 at 7:23 am to King Crab
it sure does fly by. i am constantly telling young parents to enjoy even the roughest days because you will be yearning for them soon enough. remember like it was yesterday dropping first born off at college and having a breakdown in car. then youngest dropping them off in Ohio where they only knew one person during covid crying on way home. but in the grand scheme of things all you want for your kids is to do better than you have done and if it took moving off to accomplish that so be it. one son just graduated med school and other is data analyst so they have both have bright futures. not sure this would of been possible with them staying right up under me.
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