From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 23:31:02 PDT
hear hear!
Guns-n-radios! Dummy guns ok, but the radios ought to work, or at least leave that impression. No law against that, for receiving anyway.
At my first MV event, I saw quite a few excellent vehicles with nice radios in them, but was a little disappointed that in about half, the antennas were not even connected to them.
Ryan Gill wrote:
>
> At 8:08 PM -0400 10/8/02, ddoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 10/8/2002 12:55:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >rmgill@mindspring.com writes:
> >
> >> Its
> >> like MV event organizers saying "No guns, dummy or
> >> otherwise on the
> >> vehicles or around".
> >
> >That is because it is a MV- "Military Vehicle" event...not a
> >military event, not a vehicle event.
>
> So does your MV have anything in it other than what the factor made
> it with? Unit markings? Kit? Tools? Packs? Uniform items?
>
> >Would a 57 T-Bird be out of place? Yes, it is a vehicle, but not military.
> >
> >Is a M1 carbine out of place, yes, equally so, it is military, but
> >not a vehicle.
>
> Thats absurd. Are you going to take those 40mm tubes off of the M42
> Duster and the 37mm off of the M5 Stuart? A Bren gun is the typical
> armament for a Dingo. Havhing that and the grenades in the stowage
> bins is correct for that vehicle in it's pureist form. Just like the
> antennas, radios, tools, personal kit and other items, all the extra
> gear makes the vehicle more detailed for its time period.
>
> --
> Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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