How many military/ex-military people on the board?

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Bob3 once bubbled...
Got to play with lotsa fun toys that go boom!!
Anybody know what an NWTPI is?

But the Davy Crocket went out of infantry units just before I got to Germany. Always felt a lottle sorry for the artillery types.

 

[Lawman]

caymaniac once bubbled...

- what do I get now - no VA benefits or any other bennies. Just an honorable discharge piece of paper ;-0


the deep personal satisfaction of knowing
you have served the Fatherland"

The Blue Max

 

[Lawman]

awap once bubbled...


But the Davy Crocket went out of infantry units just before I got to Germany. Always felt a lottle sorry for the artillery types.

"OD in color, bulbus in shape...." I havn't heard
of a Davy Crocket in 40 years!! I had to guard a
bunch of them at Fort Knox to keep the Cuban
Forces in Exile [5000 nutty Cubans] from trying
to steal them and attack Cuba. They were in the
basic training center [USATCA] til they revolted and
were shipped to Ft. Jackson. They didn't have the
Davy Crockets with them!

The most insane weapon ever purchased by the
US military!!

 

[Northeastwrecks]

OK, I'll bite. What's a Davy Crockett?

 

[Lawman]

Imagine a jeep. On the jeep is a stovepipe
about 5' long. On the end of the stovepipe
is something that looks like a giant tadpole
with little fins on the bottom. The tadpole
is a .5 kt nuclear warhead. When fired it
flys slowly thru the air until it explodes on
an enemy target. The poor clowns that fired
the thing are cowering in a foxhole waiting
for the blast. That's what a Davy Crocket is.

I've seen one fired but without the nuclear
warhead....plain HE.

A more.....stupid....weapon cannot be imagined.:bonk:

 

[raxafarian]

Northeastwrecks once bubbled...
OK, I'll bite. What's a Davy Crockett?

here ya go

 

[WreckWriter]

Northeastwrecks once bubbled...
OK, I'll bite. What's a Davy Crockett?

http://www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html

WW

 

[WreckWriter]

heh

 

[Northeastwrecks]

Thanks for the information. I agree wholeheartedly.

 

[Jarhead]

I think, by the 1980s, the Davy Crocketts had been replaced by the tactical nuclear projectiles for the 155mm howitzers. ' Same "payload" but a longer range.

Jarhead

PS: Also a "last resort" weapon, as the howitzer was un-useable after one-shot.