Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Howitzer folly

Nice to see such a classic weapon being fired, but while all the chicken-hawks are glad-handing themselves on success, I doubt this monkey-see-monkey-do training is good enough for an activity that requires brains as well as brawn.

And the ability to read and write.

I'd hate to be in a clutch and have to depend on these guys for fire support. And that assumes they aren't high at the time.

Or asleep.

Or off-post.

I have serious doubts about this "training" being routinely inspectable as a form of combat readiness health checks. I saw two safety problems in this video and I'm not even an artillery puke.

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