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astroboy

Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« on: August 16, 2022, 09:29:45 AM »
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robtmc

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2022, 07:18:45 PM »
No one really cares, but before most of you were born in 1968,  woke up at 0-dark-thirty to incoming 122mm rockets, always a crowd pleaser.

Had to run out into the sand "street' in full gear for "hot platoon" call up.  Had a few rocket detonate yards from me, attenuated by all the Chu lai sand.  Great balls of sparks......
Turned out to be the opening acts of Tet 68. 

Then, standing by in the sand, the whole world lit up.  Turned around to see a huge fireball rising up and thought "How the faruque did the g*oks get a nuke?"

Was only the south bomb dump at Chu Lai air base going up after a lucky mortar or 122mm rocket hit.  IOW, many tons of 250-500-1000 pound bombs.
Mucho cool secondary pyrotechnics.  Major shock wave after a few seconds.

Was a bit over a mile away, so just noise and fireworks.   Guys that were at the south end got ruptured ear drums.

This video reminded me of that, but not nearly so close and personal.  No one had video then, but did run into a pic a guy in the Hawk missile battery up in the hills to the west caught of it.  He was a couple miles or so away.

Nothing gen-z cares about, just reminiscing about a bomb dump going up and being close to it. 

« Last Edit: August 16, 2022, 07:52:11 PM by robtmc »
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Flapp_Jackson

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2022, 08:11:44 PM »
Quote from: robtmc on August 16, 2022, 07:18:45 PM
No one really cares, but before most of you were born in 1968,  woke up at 0-dark-thirty to incoming 122mm rockets, always a crowd pleaser.

Had to run out into the sand "street' in full gear for "hot platoon" call up.  Had a few rocket detonate yards from me, attenuated by all the Chu lai sand.  Great balls of sparks......
Turned out to be the opening acts of Tet 68. 

Then, standing by in the sand, the whole world lit up.  Turned around to see a huge fireball rising up and thought "How the faruque did the g*oks get a nuke?"

Was only the south bomb dump at Chu Lai air base going up after a lucky mortar or 122mm rocket hit.  IOW, many tons of 250-500-1000 pound bombs.
Mucho cool secondary pyrotechnics.  Major shock wave after a few seconds.

Was a bit over a mile away, so just noise and fireworks.   Guys that were at the south end got ruptured ear drums.

This video reminded me of that, but not nearly so close and personal.  No one had video then, but did run into a pic a guy in the Hawk missile battery up in the hills to the west caught of it.  He was a couple miles or so away.

Nothing gen-z cares about, just reminiscing about a bomb dump going up and being close to it.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

QUIETShooter

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2022, 08:45:50 PM »
Quote from: robtmc on August 16, 2022, 07:18:45 PM
No one really cares, but before most of you were born in 1968,  woke up at 0-dark-thirty to incoming 122mm rockets, always a crowd pleaser.

Had to run out into the sand "street' in full gear for "hot platoon" call up.  Had a few rocket detonate yards from me, attenuated by all the Chu lai sand.  Great balls of sparks......
Turned out to be the opening acts of Tet 68. 

Then, standing by in the sand, the whole world lit up.  Turned around to see a huge fireball rising up and thought "How the faruque did the g*oks get a nuke?"

Was only the south bomb dump at Chu Lai air base going up after a lucky mortar or 122mm rocket hit.  IOW, many tons of 250-500-1000 pound bombs.
Mucho cool secondary pyrotechnics.  Major shock wave after a few seconds.

Was a bit over a mile away, so just noise and fireworks.   Guys that were at the south end got ruptured ear drums.

This video reminded me of that, but not nearly so close and personal.  No one had video then, but did run into a pic a guy in the Hawk missile battery up in the hills to the west caught of it.  He was a couple miles or so away.

Nothing gen-z cares about, just reminiscing about a bomb dump going up and being close to it.

Thank you for your service to our country.

Lot of these asshats nowadays don't realize they can do what they do due to the sacrifices made by our nation's veterans like yourself.

Many of them did not come home.
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astroboy

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2022, 07:13:32 AM »
More fire works from 2 years ago. The policeman in the blue shirt looks like this is his first emergency
in years.
Russian fire works are the bomb.

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robtmc

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2022, 10:21:09 AM »
Quote from: QUIETShooter on August 16, 2022, 08:45:50 PM
Thank you for your service to our country.
Ah, I was just a kid, what did I know?
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groveler

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2022, 10:32:20 AM »
I think any Russians in Crimea or Ukraine should get out.  Even if there is a "Peace" deal it won't hold up.
 :grrr:
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Chrashd

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2022, 05:47:47 PM »
Thank you we care. Was across the Harbour on our boat repair barge when they blew up the depo at Monkey Mountain.Watched the shock waves come across the water and thought"what the" people never understand why sudden loud noise pisses me off.....never get over the sudden sound of high explosive
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Chrashd

Re: Fire Works Show in the Crimea
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2022, 06:44:03 PM »
Thank you we care. Was across the Harbour on our boat repair barge when they blew up the depo at Monkey Mountain.Watched the shock waves come across the water and thought"what the" people never understand why sudden loud noise pisses me off.....never get over the sudden sound of high explosive

Red Beach not Monkey Mountain memory  fades.
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