Works fine for me.....

In reply to this comment by Zonbie:
video Why-you-should-never-sit-on-the-trails-of-a-Howitzer

I cannot view this at all I have not called dead because, well I dont know if the link is dead...

thaks thought I'd look through your PQ while I'm here

video Why-you-should-never-sit-on-the-trails-of-a-Howitzer

I cannot view this at all I have not called dead because, well I dont know if the link is dead...

thaks thought I'd look through your PQ while I'm here

ps. just as an aside, ^garsh is largely correct, there.
if there's one region of iraq that'll love us to the end, it's kurdistan.

because they were what we were protecting,
with our northern no-fly-zone, since the end of Kuwait/Iraq1.

that's where mysterywalker goes shopping for pistachios and t-shirts now.

For your new playlist:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Shooting-a-fuel-barrel-causes-explosion-debunked
http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-you-should-never-sit-on-the-trails-of-a-Howitzer
And of course
http://www.videosift.com/video/What-a-MarineGunrock-actually-does

No, no officers. Each section has the chief, usually a Sgt. That is the guy looking at all the things and swinging his hand down when they fire.

In reply to this comment by Bleedingsnowman:
Hey GunRock, I was thinking about the video you posted of the Marines firing the howitzer. I was wondering if there was an officer with each gun and if there was, what he does. Is he loading it up with the rest of them? Or is he giving coordinates or something? I was just curious because I have a friend doing something similar.

Hey GunRock, I was thinking about the video you posted of the Marines firing the howitzer. I was wondering if there was an officer with each gun and if there was, what he does. Is he loading it up with the rest of them? Or is he giving coordinates or something? I was just curious because I have a friend doing something similar.

You know what, you're right. It does look like (the number 1 man) did get hit.

In reply to this comment by doogle:
Did the gunner almost get his leg crushed from the firing?
Looks like it came real close there...

lol.

In reply to this comment by garsh:
The Kurds invited us, duh.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'Artillery, sweden, mobile' to 'Artillery, sweden, mobile, cannon, howitzer' - edited by MarineGunrock

+198 votes for the awesome tag. This was a good episode. I'm glad I saw it in it's entirety.

Also, this is only for self-propelled artillery. Towed guns will be around for many years to come, as they are much more reliable and much cheaper than SP versions.
At the beginning of this year, the Marine Corps started fielding a new 155mm howitzer, the M777 lightweight howitzer. It's much easier to operate, much faster to employ, and requires less men. Also, it's half the weight.

Math hurts my head. But not as much as howitzers.

Oh cry me a river of Iraqi blood.

Am so tired of this nonsense that the US military forces are great and we should cheer them as they bomb, shoot and house search through their way to democracy in Iraq. The use of military force should reflect a failure of all other means, but that was not the case in Iraq, its a cowboy misadventure paid by the lives of Iraqi civilians and US force casualties.

Yes individually the US military is comprised of sons, daughters, mothers and fathers and am sure most of them are great humans beings (even though a minority has committed war crimes) and I would love to have beer with them. But ultimately they are an apparatus of death being a military force, representing an occupational force in Iraq. Thoughts of democracy, bringing peace, playing with Iraqis flies out the window the moment someone starts shooting at you, the military is composed of individuals who serve but one purpose at the end of the date. Force elimination.

If you were ordered to fire your howitzer at a Fallujah because terrorists were hauled up in there, would you stop and think about civilian casualties? Or would you just fix deflection and firing quadrant and shoot? Shrapnel doesn't differentiate between civilians and enemy combatants. Your statement about no collateral damage flies in the face of those killed through artillery bombardment, air force strikes and those who get killed through suicide bombers that were not there before the war.

The criticism is not leveled at the troops here, but at the commander in chief who decides to send them into a war zone with a false premise, unprepared for post invasion reconciliation and inadequately trained for basically being a occupational force. You've been handed a political reconciliation (WMD prior to that) mission that has no real way of being won through military means, and your paying for it in blood of young Americans and Iraqis.

Ok, Danimal, I know you meant no disrespect - but have you ever loaded a 155mm Howitzer? Unless you're Ahnold, you simply aren't strong enough seat the round in the bore with a good seal without ramming it - not to mention that the tray is faster. Also, yes, the chief is supposed to jump around. How else would he verify the data? The fact that you call it a "rail" and not a trail is either a typo, or tells me that you really don't know what you're talking about. What exactly did you do?

Big Bigbikeman: Deflection 3288 is a reading in mils. A mil is 1/6,400th of a complete circle, or .056 degrees. So deflection is left and right - the number he read before that was quadrant - that is the elevation of the cannon. On the right is the quadrant - there is a dial that is set to whatever number is called off and when the cannon tube is elevated, there is a level vial that must be leveled out - that tells you that you are at the set quadrant. On the left is the PanTel, or Panoramic Telescope. On this there is also a dial that is set to the number called off for the mission. When the Gunner sets that number, the head rotates, and he must then traverse the cannon back so he can see his aiming point through the PanTel.

Spoco: I don't know much about the cost of all that, but it's relatively inexpensive. You'd have to find an ammo technician for that.

Dag: Yes, ear protection is actually mandated by the SOP. However, it also hinders your ability to properly hear the data being called off and verified. You'll find that most Marines don't wear it, rather than just use their two forefingers - they work better than anything else. Hearing protection is mostly in the form of in-ear plugs.

WHOA! Did you see him all like, go through the steps! He just gave you the instructions for a howitzer!