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I'm pretty sure if I was back in a SPL I could drive it, but doing my old Launcher Specalist tasks is another story. | ||
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....bump it left, bump it left! Don't forget, don't stand in front of the air vents of the control surace boxes when venting. | ||
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Sure! After all, it's not rocket science. Anyway, on the (launch) fire side of things, the most tedious and delicate part of the firing mission was getting all those instruments like the RT and TT and (oh, what was the red elevation one that hung on the missile?) calibrated down to zero mills. Everyone had to get their part down pat. We had a great 2nd Launch platoon in C btry 3/12, but getting the job done now would require the whole team to have its act together. Even seemimgly one man jobs like track driver and L/S do require some team work. But I'm sure once the cobwebs were knocked off our brains, we could do it. I'd have to lean on my ole bud Steve Mulherin, the "Walking Encyclopedia of Lance Knowledge", for a lot of the esoteric stuff. Remember, in the field and practicing in the motor pool on "Sergeants' Time", or prep for Crete and NSAV's, we all ate and slept our jobs. The ability's still there. Plus I know some of you pack rats kept your old manuals. It would be hilarious to have an "old timer's game" type of thing and get us old goats out there to pull a John Glenn and assemble and mock fire one of the old leftover bullets just for s**ts and giggles to show we never "lost it". | ||
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We could all get jobs @ the Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range in Hawaii where the Lance is used for target practice. The Lance is also used for target practice @ White Sands here in New Mexico by the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command's Theater Targets Product Office. | ||
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After 8 1/2 years in the system, you bet! Everything form crewmen to Gunner. (The red thing is still the GSU!) An old timers game sounds great! Let me know when and where! Ok, it's been 23 years since I've done any of it, but...... YEAH! | ||
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I'll compute it if y'all can still fire it!
Lou Klein | ||
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What was the name of those rules like: Proper tool for the proper job Can not connect the W31U cable without proper release. Do not remove the upper rod of the APU until !!! | ||
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Those were the infamous "DOD Safety Rules." | ||
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Does anyone know how I can get in touch with
Terry Clark. | ||
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this msg is for "Sgt George Doughty" that red thing is a "IGSU" the old green thing was the GSU! Remeber looking for the spoon? | ||
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Ok "Chris" The "I" in the IGSU, stood for "improved" as in over the old (green) one. I remember somewhere around '78 most people dropped the "I" and just called it (the red one, the only one we had since turning the old green one) the GSU or Gunner Sight Unit. Oh , Yeah, I do remember looking for the spoon on the T2 but, the green ball was even more elusive!!!! (but we always found it!) | ||
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I remember looking for the pac-man during missile alignment. | ||
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When I arrived at the 6/33, C btry in November of 81, my first job was the m-60. I then became the driver of C-24, 2nd fires' SPL...soon after that I started training to become gunner...It was kind of difficult bore-sighting...repeating all the "deviations" from the RT operator...then I went to school on the IGSU, as it was called, and I was able to make the transition from the GSU to the IGSU...boresighting was a joke then. Before we took the new GSU to WSMR, it was already being called just the GSU...it made my job a heck of alot easier. I spent the rest of my 11 years at Artillery Detachments in Italy and Germany...I could still do either job...happily. | ||
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since pinpoint accuracey is not a must with LANCE why not just put a long fuse on the end of it like a bottle rocket?oh and in the event of actual war and being ran over by the enemy?sure i will put that cone over the warhead and detonate her on the track. | ||
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i wish i could remember the techno terms.i ran the rto for 1st fire at the live fire in korea.then at sill i couldnt even handle the thing.what was the other thing called thats was set up on tripod and had a triangle on it?i have been racking my brain every since i came across this lance stuff the other day?i even started out on it when i started driving the LT.'S HUMVEE.all i remember is bump left bump right missile laid.1st fire tim&hipp.iknow i did my fare share of elevating that thing too.we spent some cold long nights running fire mission after mission.i remeber freezing my ass off riding in the prone position with the 60 on the track.then in summer trading boogie bait and ducking into korean bath/house if we was lucky in the field.lol cold green eggs and LA. hotsauce. and burying crap in the field and team spirit.usha | ||
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Tim, I believe that the thing on the tripod with the triangle was referred to as the test target...Ken | ||