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| wardog | 09 Nov 2014 3:11 p.m. PST |
just came across some b/w pictures showing m110 howitzer with environmental shelter over the gun/crew station
to protect from bad weather
what I want to know is did they fire the gun with this shelter up or did they remove it before firing gun |
| ashauace6970 | 09 Nov 2014 6:37 p.m. PST |
Was a gun bunny on the M-107 175mm for my tour in ' Nam
Never saw it
It would be blown about during firing I would think
Also it would interfere with the loading cradle
And SOP was not to ride on the gun when firing except for the AG and Gunner |
| cncbump | 10 Nov 2014 5:52 p.m. PST |
Commanded an 8" battery in Desert Storm out of Sill.
Generally no, reason being that it was pretty much SOP to displace after a fire mission or 2 at most. Driving down the road with those shelters up meant leaving some on the roadside and or tearing them.
They were essentially 3 walls and became sails once the gun started moving any speed. |
mckrok  | 15 Nov 2014 6:39 p.m. PST |
I was a gun bunny in a M110A2 unit in the mid-'80's in Germany. It wasn't much of a shelter being a tarp and didn't really work for  . Except in the motorpool, I recall the sides always being rolled up. A sheet or two of 4'x8' plywood was placed on top of the frame which was used as a platform to store the camouflage net when rolled up. pjm |
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