some vietnam photos from goo

[Griff Murphey]

When I was at Horno five of the dental techs wanted to learn to shoot and qualify. I found a unit that would loan us rifles and I went to Range Control and they let me borrow a PRC-25 to contact them. I was (before going to dental school and tranferring to the Navy) an Army ROTC commissioned 2LT so I could use a radio. I taught them to shoot on a 25 M BZO range then found a Gunny who would open a little 200 yard range which I think was part of 214 and we shot the Navy Qual course, and my guys pulled their own butts and we shot the little 4 position Navy deal at 200. I used my personal Colt SP-1 AR-15. When we cleaned our guns the armorer asked me to check it in and wondered if I had not forgotten to turn it in as I left with it. I would guess, sadly, that having a personal AR-15 at Camp Pendleton or even just in the State of California is not now possible. Another funny story; I took that PRC-25 into my apartment and ran into a drinking buddy in the hallway, Major Egan. He says, "Doc, what're you doin' with that g'damn radio!? You don't know how to use that thing!" So I plopped it down and started teaching a class on the PRC-25. He says (with some astonishment) "Hunh!! You DO know how to use it...." RE: "cleaning"; I will say, when you turned in a Marine Corps gun, they were pretty persnickety about "carbon." They said the hot gasses swirled around it and eroded metal.

[mike24d20]

One of the major problems with the M-15/16 system, carbon buildup. In the arms room we used a electric drill with a M-14 chamber brush too clean the wep. also along with a lot of bore cleaner. An in basic we were all taught how too use the Prc-25 or we did not qual an got extra KP. Good to see they are now building a piston upper for the rifle.

[goo]

prc-25?

prc-25? that's modern technology. you guys probably never heard of a double-e- eight.
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one communicator to another upon eyeballing a pretty young thing,

" I'd eat a mile of comm wire just to hear her fart on a double-e-eight."

[Dan In Indiana]

Worked on a bunch of EE-8's down in Chu Lai, SB22's, SB86's, PRC6's, never taught how to work on them, had to rely on guys who had been there for a while to teach me the ropes as they quit instructing on them at Dago a few months before I started school there. And it goes, "I'd lay 10 miles of comm wire through broken Budweiser bottle just to hear her fart over a EE8". Jeez, officers! Can't shoot'em, just have to put up with them.

Mag-12 Comm, Tech Shop
Chu Lai by the Sea
9-67/1-69

[Griff Murphey]

10's and 6's - you might as well send smoke signals. When they worked (as in WHEN) the range was incredibly short and battery life measured in hours. We had some of those old sound power phones for the range at the Fort Worth Rifle and Pistol Club. 100% reliable pit com over WD-1 wire.

[goo]

re: "I'd lay 10 miles of comm wire through broken Budweiser bottle just to hear her fart over a EE8". Jeez, officers! Can't shoot'em, just have to put up with them."
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"i'd drag my b*lls across a mile of burning sand in the desert just to smell the tire tracks from the laundry truck that took her dirty skivies away."

[Dan In Indiana]

You might just be a keeper after all.