2 vids from work...

[Commando]

Just spliced some vids from work.

Thought you might enjoy.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1010036/f_18_real/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1010150/bomb_1000_pounders/

[Greco101]

Sweet.

We used to go out to plaster city where do do training like that, and ride/off road.

...Until we found a live small bomb sicking in the ground lol.

Also found a live nickel 30mm round (was bad ass looking!)

[simon275]

Love the F-18 vid. +rep

[Eclecticos]

Cool! I wish I was out there so I could hear the explosions.
What is the range on the 1000 Pounders. . Distance from where your standing?

[Commando]

What is the range on the 1000 Pounders. . Distance from where your standing?

From 2000 to 3000 meters. That's not the nerve racking part. They are laser guided and we are holding the laser. That's why you can here the guy's say "terminate..." after the bomb hits. If you don't get the geometry right or if the guy holding the laser is accidently lasing a bush right in front of you then the geometry can be off and the bomb will guide onto the laser not the target.

I've had it happen twice with inert bombs but obviously never with one of those 1000 pounders. You can bet I kinda double check everything before we start dropping the big bombs.

[OvRiDe]

Hey.. has any one seen my car.. I parked it in the big sandy area away from the other cars to avoid door dings.. :?

Awsome videos Commando!

[Commando]

Thanks.

I really do like sharing this stuff. It gets really boring for me because I've been teaching the same stuff for 2 years now.

It's fun to show others every once in a while. It kinda helps remind me how cool this stuff is.

Have a good new years. Don't drink to much. :banana:

[SgtM]

Hey.. has any one seen my car.. I parked it in the big sandy area away from the other cars to avoid door dings.. :?

Awsome videos Commando!

Yeah.. you don't know how true that is. The vehicle I was riding in back in 96 got separated from a convoy one night. We ended up in that same area. Finally got comm the next morning, and they told us to get the hell outta there. Gee.. I wonder why.

[Bopher]

Loved the F18 vid. Reminds me of living on base when I was a kid and hearing jets take off all the time. The last part of my dads Air Force career was spent at a missile base so no jets. When we moved we stayed at Ellsworth in SD and it was music to our ears to hear those afterburners kick on during night take offs.

[Commando]

Yeah.. you don't know how true that is. The vehicle I was riding in back in 96 got separated from a convoy one night. We ended up in that same area. Finally got comm the next morning, and they told us to get the hell outta there. Gee.. I wonder why.

That is so funny, I've gotta share. I know the place like the back of my hand now and i still don't venture out at night without a plugger and a map. But when I was a young buck my very first field op was "get there yourself" I had 4 tanks rolling around in that same area "the Quack" with my dumbass with a a big map and a plugger lost as hell. I'm surprised I didn't end up in Yucca Valley(a regular town). That would've been really embarrassing, showing up at a gas station in a M1A1 and saying "uh yeah, where's the base again?" I was pretty close.

The trick is to look like your know where your going, even if you don't. We'll I neither looked like I knew where I was going or knew where I was going. It was a long day... But it's the desert you just point in the right direction and you'll get there eventually.

By the way, that big empty section on google earth in southern CA. Yeah it's bigger than it looks and it's straight up nothing but open desert. You wouldn't believe there was a place like that in the US but there is.

http://airbrushtricks.com/worklogimages/Haqlanyah%20Op%20River%20Bridge_1.JPG

[SgtM]

That's a hilarious! I was lucky though. First trip to CAX, LCpl, gunner. I had no responsibility whatsoever. The Corporal in the passengers seat.. that's a different story.