From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 06:58:27 PDT
At 7:34 PM +0930 7/9/04, Douglas Greville wrote:
>Ryan
>
>> I wonder when AFVs are going to get a pee tube
>> for recycling all that tea and coffee those crews
>> are starting to drink more and more....
>
>Well, until the US moved away from belly mounted escape hatches nobody
>was at all worried. Standard practice to pop the hatch and .......
Torsion bars removed that option.
>If not, I believe the drill was to fire a round in the general
>direction of Germany and use the empty brass as a private toilet
>(when in combat). I believe it is highly advisable to let the empty
>brass case cool before putting it anywhere near one's sensitive areas.
Does't work now with the nato spec ammo that uses
a very shallow brass baseplate...
>Now that firing a round in the general direction of Germany is no
>longer politically correct, and as the Abrams has consumable main gun
>rounds what do the crews do?
Yep...Good question. I'll have to ask my friend
that works on the strykers what they are looking
at...
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