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Wow - even though it needs a constant power supply right now, it's still useful as hell! Loading aircraft with munitions, working in warehouses, lifting patients in hospitals - the uses of this thing are endless. Hell, they would be great in field artillery for moving the projectiles around (minimum 95 lbs.) and moving the howitzers (16,000 lbs).

Fuck. I mean... just fuck.
When I was in Iraq, I was a cannoneer, and our howitzer was directly in front of the heli-pad.
We hated helicopters with a passion. They would fly in, blow sand everywhere, be so loud you couldn't hear the guy next to you, and blow down everything you had up. We would curse the whole time they were there. But some helicopters we could only stand still and silent for.
Day after day, I would see a HMMWV ambulance would drive up to the pad and wait for a BlackHawk helicopter with a big red "+" painted on it. They would then offload one or a few Marines to be taken to a hospital, likely to be sent home for good. I always felt sad, but in a way, I was happy that they would be going home.
Then there were the days that HMMWV ambulance would drive up and would have twice the usual Marines standing there than normal, and a CH-46 (Chinook) would fly down.
We all knew that could only mean one thing.
From the HMMWV they would pull out one or more stretchers, covered in American flag, and would load it onto the Ch-46, trying to keep the rotor wash from blowing the flag away revealing the body bag beneath.
I don't think that there was anything harder than watching that.
Almost three years later and I still get watery-eyed at news reports like this. Thanks for the good sift, Calvados.

Yeah but I want to see a REAL howitzer. Those things are puny. it's just a wimpy 155mm pistol, pu-lease.

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stand-clear-of-the-howitzer-STAND-CLEAR

By the way histnerd, I like yer tag better, it keeps collective panties from bunching or knotting, and gives everyone a nice warm, cozy, feeling inside.Like puppies, ELE's, and Howitzers.

This is the reality video that sends chills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMEeZrLwFbc

Thats from an AC-130 Spectre Gunship, multiple vulcan cannons as well as a 105mm howitzer ON A PLANE. This video, if submitted to VideoSift, would have the title "ALWAYS run for the mosque". This is comfort warfare.