Okay, Alan.
I called and asked your questions.
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<LI>Ok were their belts on the copula mounted .50s??
Yes
<LI>Was the side canvas on the trucks rolled up or missing??
Down on the sides, open in the back.
<LI>Also wasn't the 29th a Monday that’s usually the day you go to the field for a week.
It was 11:30pm Monday night. And if so, they certainly took an unusual route to the field.
<LI>Oh were there black plastic caps on the ends of the M-16s (they make a black plastic tube that is closed a one end that fits over the flash suppressor to keep dust and dirt out of the barrel of the rifle)
No
<LI>or were there little red blank adapters on the ends of the barrels...
No
<LI>were the dust covers closed...
Couldn't tell. It wouldn't have mattered, anyway.
<LI>was every one including drivers and shotguns wearing helmets and their M-16 rifles
Yes. All were wearing their helmets; they were not blue.
<LI>Were the tanks combat locked or were there heads showing??
One head, the one manning the .50
<LI>If they stopped did the herring bone and put out flank security? Was their a tank in the lead and one following with the turret facing backwards with the trucks in the middle?
No to both points. It was Tank, Tank, Truck, Truck. The barrels of the tanks were not locked in their cradles and pointing forward. The rear tank could have blasted the a$$ of the forward tank without moving the barrel. And both tanks were set up for urban use.
<LI>Sounds to me like some green LT was trying to get from one place to another and decided to take the road.
<LI>As for are those .50 normally loaded... get real we never saw rounds until we got to the range. They were always brought on a seperate truck and you had to account for every piece of spent brass or live ammo left too, before you could leave.
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Whatever.
My point in this post was to note the
->unusual<- occurance, and the
->increasing<- unusual occurances across our country.
Dismiss it, if you like. Call me crazy, if you like, but I'm done nit-picking fine points.
There is only one fact that is important to me:
I do not trust my government!
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John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not
golden, it's
yellow..."
RKBA!
[This message has been edited by John/az2 (edited December 02, 1999).]