Its about time we got us some good guys slingin some lead down range on some poor innocent targets. Wish it was them damn afgannys! Wish they woulda just let our boys get after it on the whole damn country over there! Wouldnt be a damn thing left! lol. If only if only lol
I had the privilege of being on a small FOB in Afghanistan that had two 777 guns and whenever I had the chance to go watch the artillery guys work I was up there watching them. A NASCAR pit crew aint got sh!t on this!!!
What kind of damage does 1 round do? They don't seem to be aiming for anything accept a general area, does the shell fragment after it's fired and "Rain down" covering more than a few meters?
@MrJeffropgleberman The 155mm HE 107 is a high explosive fragmintation round. If a HE 107 were to be fired at the 50 yardling durring a high school football game everyone on the field and sidelines would be killed. If a DPICM were to be used it would kill everyone on the field and most of the people in the stands. In World War II MILLIONS of men were killed by artillery. In the Korean War American artillery killed over half a MILLION Chines men a year.
hey im joining the 19th of this month and its either between 13b or 15t but ive been hearing that 13b just gets screwed into doing infantry work is this true cause i would love to do what this vid shows but have no intrest in infantry thanks very much and good luck with your service
@10oner They are winding down Iraq and Afghanistan, so I doubt they will ever send any more artillery units in to do work they are not trained to do. From what I know you will either be on a M-109 or a M-777 and both are much easier to use than the M-198.
@EddoMundo Here we go again with another dummy who doesn't know what he's looking at.
Yes, they were faster. But they only shot three rounds. They were in a combat zone firing a combat mission where live were probably on the line down range. So they skipped a lot of safety procedures that can get you removed from your position in training.
@fjwjr Marines are only worried about getting the Job done. We can worry about our own safety when the enemy is dead. It's all about speed and making sure you're brothers are getting the rounds down range that they need.
Swabs and puts out any embers that might be left over from the last round.. those powder charges are just wrapped in a silk like cloth, drop a hot cig ash on one, and it'll fry you like a shrimp on a Japanese grill..
A few years ago I read Lone Survivor and today I read the World War II Medal of Honor citation of Jose F Valdez and there were some striking cimularities. Both were in a 4 man team and both were attacked by over 200 enimy. Jose on the other hand had artillery support and with it he was able to get his team to safty as well as forcing the Germans to retreat. I gues the best combat training in the world is no substatute for fire support.
@John234pwns Nothing ALONE ever wins a war. I will tell you this much. If I had my old Strike Force Battery and some good FO's we could wipe out any infantry BN (given we had a 5 km distance).
@taipan185 Seeing as how the US Artillery has been the undisputed best artillery in the world for over 60 yeras by all the experts. I would have to disagree with you.
@kraigthorne Name these experts, any of them not American? I spent years working on 198's in the Australia Army and I am yet to see a single Yank gun crew able to match their speed and I have worked with alot of American gun crews aswell. Bravo gun 103 mdm bty 8/12 mdm regt was able to knock out a round every 6 seconds starting from scratch with nothing loaded (I noticed Americans like to count the round thats already loaded). Six seconds per round is near impossible bout you ever came close.
@kraigthorne Care to name these experts and cite there Material, any of them not Americans? I worked for years on the M198 with Australians and numerous times with Americans and I never saw one american gun crew come close to the speed of the Australians. Bravo gun of 103 mdm bty 8/12 mdm regt was for a time able to get 1 round down range every 6 seconds and that is near impossible but they did it. There are differences between the American and Australia methods for laoding and firing
@taipan185 The German Army in world war II would not attack an american patrol if they knew there was American artillery in the area. Col Johann Voss said how surprised he was when moved to the western front, that the Americans could put all their rounds into a small sector and concentrate it without ranging. He said that he had never seen anything like it. The best example of American Artillery was at Bastogne where the 687th held off an entire German Corps.
@kraigthorne (sorry for the double post I thought the original hadn't posted correctly) Anyway as I was saying. There are differences between the way the two countires go about it but at the end of the day the Australian guns were always faster. There was a vast difference in standards for everything most notable being the setup of a battery position US positions you could see from the surface of the moon for example. You play like you train and to be honest I found American training lazy.
@kraigthorne I have no desire to turn this into some stupid arguement really I don't. But believe me when I tell you that there are numerous forces out there that do their thing very very well and it would be ignorant to just assume that Americans are the best at everything because the reality is they aren't. Sure the US is very good at many things but not everything to think otherwise is blatant ignorance.
@taipan185 The thing is more than half of all the M-198's in the world are (or have been) used by the US Army, so if you look at the numbers they tell you that the fastest gun is in the USA.
I will make you a deal. From 1987-1990 Strike Force A-3/8 FA was the best battery of M-198 and your bettery was the best when you were in it.
@sswaller I bet you did. And as was discussed here before combat vs training and short cuts vs none. But if you knew about artillary, you'd know that already.
@Ray102386 you gotta be a marine...only guys who still call body armor flaks hahaha Im an infantry guy, to me five rounds of 155 in a minute thirty seems awesome, but im no artyman so I am just sayin my piece brother. Nothing beats having the big guns on your side!
@engaurd Yea, he's busy. Not sure if he's more experienced/ trained or whatever. The dude on the left seems to give the ok to fire everytime, so must be the boss man. Dunno though
look closely... after the projectile is fired, the man operating the howitzer grabs a bore cleaning swab and goes in, yells bore clear, the loaders proceed to ram the shell into the bore and run back... if you didnt see that, look again
yeah it really wouldn't if something like this goes off and you're a foot away from it, you can be standing behind a brick wall and chances are you're still fucked
With all due respect, I think you meant to say "Canadian Artillery"......... if American Arty was the best, then ask your own infantry and other elements of the army about the Canadian Arty overseas.
If I were their comander, i would order them to wear their body armor. Because in today's modern battlefeild, you just never know if the enemy will sneak up on them during a fire mission and ambush them. Now I understand this is training, but it's best to prepare.
So what's the deal with the guy that's on the left side, the gunner? Seems like he had some attitude going on at the end. Trying to prove some point? Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
@stormbats Well, the five other gun crews had been talking smack and then we just spanked them on that mission as we had been all day. He was just giving it back to them.
@Chakiejan Sometimes after the round is fired some smoldering parts of the powderbag can remain in the breech. The number one man takes a round sponge that is on the end of a staff that was sitting in a bucket of water next to the trail and runs it in and out of the breech make sure nothing burning remains that would ignite the next powderbag when it's put in the breech.
@LordBob1234 Hard to say. I don't know what video you are referring to. It could have been a different weapon system which would have different operating procedures.
It also could have been a combat video where this is a training video so all the procedures must be (and were) followed.
Also don't know what branch of service you were watching. It seems that Marines have slightly different 'standards'.
Hmm, Not the slickest drills I have seen. Dropping the lanyard each time on the ground is poor form. After firing and disconnection we throw it over our head and it hangs down our chest where we can grab it for the next round. Ubique!!! 105th Mdm Bty 1st Fd Regt RAA
some people say that artillery men are pussies...i tell them they are completely wrong. Versus a Professional military, the artillery will be attacked first
@ckranich9 Been their done that. You'll be training on the new M777. They may still have the M198 around. The best one is the M109A6. That's the one I trained on in 99 and it rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOA
@lokalllize As long as you wear hearing protection and stay behind the midpoint of the tube, it shouldn't be bad. Over the years, it can have a cumulative effect.
I spent 4 years (USMC) firing 105's and 55's like this....we wore no hearing protection...I now have a 'service connected' disability and some really nice hearing aides from the VA.....
I'm an ex-redleg. Been away from the gunline for 15 years. Just wondering though, do they not use a gunners quadrant anymore? Nice show guys and keep up the good work.
fjwjr (or anyone), could you clarify the calls? i hear "bore clear," "i see red," and, of course, "fire," but some of the others are a little harder to make out. just interested. thanks.
Congrats to All the SOLDIERS who talked shit. I fucking hope that one of your rounds goes off in the tube BECAUSE THE CHIEF NEVER VERIFIED FUZE, ROUND, FUZE SETTING, or THAT THE FUZE WAS TIGHTENED PROPERLY! So when you have as many rounds as I have or have the MARINES that follow me into combat you will truly know why Myself and all my friends laughed our asses off at all your responses. ( no shit, you have a good ammo team)... that one man though needs to practice his dance.
@MFSC6644 Duh!!!! He did check why do you think the guys brought the round on the loading tray to him instead of going straight for the breach,You can see him check it! Same with powderman! shesh!!
@MrMagic1163 youve obviously never seen first hand how much damage 5 155mm rounds have done in person well i have and i can tell you that youre fucking retarded by dissing it
i don't see how you say marines are better when you guys come to our post Ft.sill and learn artillery, imma FO and i rely on army better than marines, marines are so slow that by the time the rounds come the enemy is moving or moved
i don't see how you say marines are better, you guys come onto our post, Ft. Sill to learn artillery so i don't see how your better, imma fister and id rather have my rounds come from Army bc Marines are so freak-in slow by the time the round comes the enemy is gone
haha thank you. This video is a bunch of army fags trying to be as cool and as fast as MARINE ARTILLERY. BTW, the Chief never verified anything. Good job Army.... God you guys suck... Sincerely, Real US MARINE ARTILLERY SECTION CHIEF.
@fjwjr The jarhead's don't have their own Artillery school so we put up with them, when I was in Ft. Bliss we fought them at N.T.C. , at the bar's in Juarez but I would glady have a Marine by my side in any battle. Two of my son's are Marine's.
@fjwjr Those guys were going by the book. When I was on a M-198 we seldom went by the book when we had to be fast. The #1 would keep primers in his hand, we would not swab, we would not use the feed tray or the ram rod (our #2 was strong enough to seet the round with one arm), our #3 would put the powder in as soon as our #1's arm cleared the tube and the #1 closed the breach as soon and the #3's hand cleared the tube. We once got of 8 rounds off in under a munute.
@MFSC6644 Any credibility you had as a Section Chief is gone since you posted that bullshit "Jump Fire" video on your page. Where's that at in the FM? Sincerely, a Real US ARMY ARTILLERY PLATOON LEADER.
@langhalsen lol that's funny. You can. Soldiers are supposed to wear ear plugs, but sometimes a round from your gun or a gun next to you can catch you unprepared.
Being in the wrong place one time when the gun next to mine shot a charge 8 red bag left my ears ringing for three days.
All I can say, I was in Artillery unit while I boxed for the Army and in 3 ocassions this fag fought against the marine boxing team and the 3 times we beat the shit out of your tough super marines (I guess they were having a bad day) . You can look it up if you want to. sorry but we fags are way better fighters.
@MFSC6644 WTF? I was around field artillery--Marine and Army-- for 26 years. Never saw anything as stupid, unprofessional and unsafe as that "Section Chief Jump Fire" fiasco you posted. "Great" leadership by that person who, I guess , was supposed to be the section chief. I've seen excellent Army artillery and excellent Marine artillery. Marine grunts and Army grunts cover each other's backs. This inter-service trash-talk is invariably done by children who haven't a clue about who they speak.
Not like I know that much about artillery but i get the idea that the dude actually pulling the trigger is using a lanyard or whatever. But why does he keep dropping it on the ground? Doesn't seem terribly efficient because he keeps having to pick it up. Just sort of curious.
Pretty good. When I was in the finnish military doing my service, we once fired 8 shots with an 152 mm gun in about 1m and 50 secs. A fire mission like that is called an "obstruction". It,s fired when there,s such a huge enemy force coming at you that a fire mission like that is needed to stop it. Firing more than 8 shots could melt the gun
Its about time we got us some good guys slingin some lead down range on some poor innocent targets. Wish it was them damn afgannys! Wish they woulda just let our boys get after it on the whole damn country over there! Wouldnt be a damn thing left! lol. If only if only lol
codeman883 3 weeks ago
was this fire for a fact?
KosamiCheats 1 month ago
@KosamiCheats Yes, this was fire.....for a fact.
fjwjr 1 month ago
@KosamiCheats fire for effect buddy.
GenericAmerican1 8 hours ago
Pretty nice coordination there..greetings from snotr =)
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I had the privilege of being on a small FOB in Afghanistan that had two 777 guns and whenever I had the chance to go watch the artillery guys work I was up there watching them. A NASCAR pit crew aint got sh!t on this!!!
ArmyRob13 4 months ago 2
just wondering was this training or combat
TheMrcooldude98 5 months ago
they want to do the things so fast that they delay, hahaha...incompetents...
barbarotico 5 months ago
does that stuff kill?
barbarotico 5 months ago
What kind of damage does 1 round do? They don't seem to be aiming for anything accept a general area, does the shell fragment after it's fired and "Rain down" covering more than a few meters?
MrJeffropgleberman 5 months ago
@MrJeffropgleberman The 155mm HE 107 is a high explosive fragmintation round. If a HE 107 were to be fired at the 50 yardling durring a high school football game everyone on the field and sidelines would be killed. If a DPICM were to be used it would kill everyone on the field and most of the people in the stands. In World War II MILLIONS of men were killed by artillery. In the Korean War American artillery killed over half a MILLION Chines men a year.
kraigthorne 5 months ago
Chuck Norris can shoot in full auto
Th3Gersi 5 months ago
i wish it was aimed at muslims
701shep 5 months ago
hey im joining the 19th of this month and its either between 13b or 15t but ive been hearing that 13b just gets screwed into doing infantry work is this true cause i would love to do what this vid shows but have no intrest in infantry thanks very much and good luck with your service
10oner 5 months ago
@10oner They are winding down Iraq and Afghanistan, so I doubt they will ever send any more artillery units in to do work they are not trained to do. From what I know you will either be on a M-109 or a M-777 and both are much easier to use than the M-198.
kraigthorne 5 months ago
@kraigthorne so i leave in march and this right here is what i can expect what it shows in the video and not end up on the frontlines
10oner 5 months ago
Marines were faster.
EddoMundo 5 months ago
@EddoMundo Here we go again with another dummy who doesn't know what he's looking at.
Yes, they were faster. But they only shot three rounds. They were in a combat zone firing a combat mission where live were probably on the line down range. So they skipped a lot of safety procedures that can get you removed from your position in training.
You're comparing apples and oranges.
fjwjr 5 months ago 6
@fjwjr This fully answered my question from before, thanks! :)
LordBob1234 4 months ago
@fjwjr Marines are only worried about getting the Job done. We can worry about our own safety when the enemy is dead. It's all about speed and making sure you're brothers are getting the rounds down range that they need.
emospacebar 4 weeks ago
@emospacebar I was trying to avoid saying it above, but here we go. Another dumb Marine who doesn't understand.
Go back and reread ther post above
fjwjr 4 weeks ago
I think i lost a ear drum!
panzerman22 6 months ago
Swabs and puts out any embers that might be left over from the last round.. those powder charges are just wrapped in a silk like cloth, drop a hot cig ash on one, and it'll fry you like a shrimp on a Japanese grill..
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Tankerc 6 months ago
OMG i love the sound of the shell souring through the sky <3
bob119911 6 months ago
how far does artillery stay back from frontlines?
XWHITEoKNIGHTX19 6 months ago
Om I wrong or were they sponging out the gun after every shot?
BugMagnet 6 months ago
@BugMagnet You are not wrong.
fjwjr 6 months ago
@fjwjr if you don't mind me asking, why is that? Is that just to make sure the gun is cooler for the next round? Thanks
BlackLabsproductions 6 months ago
As I said in another post as an 1812 (that's 19k to you) I love the fuck out of you 0811/13B mother fuckers.....that's some good shooting soldiers!!!
1138thz 6 months ago
HUMP them shells!
Darthbelal 7 months ago
13B's Hooah! Get some baby!
VWONE100 7 months ago
And I thought it's only: " Open hatch, put rounds in, close hatch, FIRE!!!" It's way more complex than I think...
eSScODRiNgfy 7 months ago
damn theirs a lot more to do than i thought their was
GIANTWARTITAN 7 months ago
A few years ago I read Lone Survivor and today I read the World War II Medal of Honor citation of Jose F Valdez and there were some striking cimularities. Both were in a 4 man team and both were attacked by over 200 enimy. Jose on the other hand had artillery support and with it he was able to get his team to safty as well as forcing the Germans to retreat. I gues the best combat training in the world is no substatute for fire support.
kraigthorne 7 months ago
@kraigthorne Well... properly used artillery didn't care if you were experienced or not, but artillery alone won't win a war.
John234pwns 7 months ago
@John234pwns Nothing ALONE ever wins a war. I will tell you this much. If I had my old Strike Force Battery and some good FO's we could wipe out any infantry BN (given we had a 5 km distance).
kraigthorne 7 months ago
@kraigthorne Amen.
John234pwns 7 months ago
Gun 2 A-3/8FA set the record for rounds in a minute by a M-198.
kraigthorne 7 months ago
@kraigthorne What kind of rounds, what kind of fuse, what kind of mission, what angle (Low or high?) and training or combat?
fjwjr 7 months ago
@fjwjr We fired HE M-107, we used a PD fuse, and it was in a Battalion section competition at Fort Bragg in the late 80's.
kraigthorne 7 months ago
@kraigthorne Maybe in your military they might of and only in your military.
taipan185 5 months ago
@taipan185 Seeing as how the US Artillery has been the undisputed best artillery in the world for over 60 yeras by all the experts. I would have to disagree with you.
kraigthorne 5 months ago
@kraigthorne Name these experts, any of them not American? I spent years working on 198's in the Australia Army and I am yet to see a single Yank gun crew able to match their speed and I have worked with alot of American gun crews aswell. Bravo gun 103 mdm bty 8/12 mdm regt was able to knock out a round every 6 seconds starting from scratch with nothing loaded (I noticed Americans like to count the round thats already loaded). Six seconds per round is near impossible bout you ever came close.
taipan185 5 months ago
@kraigthorne Care to name these experts and cite there Material, any of them not Americans? I worked for years on the M198 with Australians and numerous times with Americans and I never saw one american gun crew come close to the speed of the Australians. Bravo gun of 103 mdm bty 8/12 mdm regt was for a time able to get 1 round down range every 6 seconds and that is near impossible but they did it. There are differences between the American and Australia methods for laoding and firing
taipan185 5 months ago
@taipan185 The German Army in world war II would not attack an american patrol if they knew there was American artillery in the area. Col Johann Voss said how surprised he was when moved to the western front, that the Americans could put all their rounds into a small sector and concentrate it without ranging. He said that he had never seen anything like it. The best example of American Artillery was at Bastogne where the 687th held off an entire German Corps.
kraigthorne 5 months ago
@kraigthorne (sorry for the double post I thought the original hadn't posted correctly) Anyway as I was saying. There are differences between the way the two countires go about it but at the end of the day the Australian guns were always faster. There was a vast difference in standards for everything most notable being the setup of a battery position US positions you could see from the surface of the moon for example. You play like you train and to be honest I found American training lazy.
taipan185 5 months ago
@kraigthorne I have no desire to turn this into some stupid arguement really I don't. But believe me when I tell you that there are numerous forces out there that do their thing very very well and it would be ignorant to just assume that Americans are the best at everything because the reality is they aren't. Sure the US is very good at many things but not everything to think otherwise is blatant ignorance.
taipan185 5 months ago
@taipan185 The thing is more than half of all the M-198's in the world are (or have been) used by the US Army, so if you look at the numbers they tell you that the fastest gun is in the USA.
I will make you a deal. From 1987-1990 Strike Force A-3/8 FA was the best battery of M-198 and your bettery was the best when you were in it.
kraigthorne 5 months ago
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sswaller 7 months ago
@sswaller I bet you did. And as was discussed here before combat vs training and short cuts vs none. But if you knew about artillary, you'd know that already.
fjwjr 7 months ago
Your doing this with no Flaks or better yet, Flaks with SAPI's in em. Slow.
Ray102386 7 months ago
@Ray102386 you gotta be a marine...only guys who still call body armor flaks hahaha Im an infantry guy, to me five rounds of 155 in a minute thirty seems awesome, but im no artyman so I am just sayin my piece brother. Nothing beats having the big guns on your side!
UberCadet01 7 months ago
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fire to israel
awad7824 8 months ago
@awad7824 Yup, you're "a wad" alright.
fjwjr 8 months ago 4
god i love that sound
SuperBlueflag 8 months ago 17
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TheYoMiEs 8 months ago
@TheYoMiEs So how are things in Douchebagia?
fjwjr 8 months ago
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TheYoMiEs 8 months ago
@TheYoMiEs That's not saying much. That's like bragging that you have the biggest dick in Finland.
fjwjr 8 months ago
@fjwjr Yep
TheYoMiEs 8 months ago
Look at the "gunners" in the left, they think they are at disney land "humm what, soldier working? were?"
ejzen11 8 months ago
@engaurd Yea, he's busy. Not sure if he's more experienced/ trained or whatever. The dude on the left seems to give the ok to fire everytime, so must be the boss man. Dunno though
mrextremophile 8 months ago
I whant one of those for new year party"!
Nostro200 8 months ago
Interessant... =D
hcirpuh 9 months ago
No swabbing of the bore? Even with a mad minute, swabbing the bore and bore clear sir, was a must.
badge930 9 months ago
@badge930 If you don't see it, then you don't know what you're talking about. Look again.
fjwjr 9 months ago 4
@fjwjr I am sorry for not noticing the cannoneer swabbing the bore and yelling bore clear...
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@fjwjr I am sorry for not noticing the cannoneer swabbing the bore and yelling bore clear...
badge930 9 months ago
@badge930
look closely... after the projectile is fired, the man operating the howitzer grabs a bore cleaning swab and goes in, yells bore clear, the loaders proceed to ram the shell into the bore and run back... if you didnt see that, look again
KoMDraegast 8 months ago 2
what the fuck was the thing flying over in the first bit of the video?
happymerc 9 months ago
Just wondering, wouldn't it be smart to wear your armor in case of an accident?
Goodspittin 9 months ago
@Goodspittin If you're talking about soiled underwear, armor won't help. If you're talking about an explosion, armor still won't help.
fjwjr 9 months ago
@fjwjr a flak would help considerably in case a round went off in the tube
niggemz 9 months ago
@niggemz Not really......
fjwjr 9 months ago
@niggemz
yeah it really wouldn't if something like this goes off and you're a foot away from it, you can be standing behind a brick wall and chances are you're still fucked
dumapies 9 months ago
American artillery is the best in the world.
antarcticamoon 9 months ago
@antarcticamoon
With all due respect, I think you meant to say "Canadian Artillery"......... if American Arty was the best, then ask your own infantry and other elements of the army about the Canadian Arty overseas.
TheRaginTiger 9 months ago
THE dude kept dropping his rip cord, IDIOT, my gunny would kick my A if i pulled that crap, lol, sure miss those days,
MOVIMKR7 10 months ago
If I were their comander, i would order them to wear their body armor. Because in today's modern battlefeild, you just never know if the enemy will sneak up on them during a fire mission and ambush them. Now I understand this is training, but it's best to prepare.
agumon12 10 months ago
@agumon12
That's why artillery batteries supply their own local security and MG teams, and depending on the unit, they are used during training as well.
TwistedRaven187 9 months ago
So what's the deal with the guy that's on the left side, the gunner? Seems like he had some attitude going on at the end. Trying to prove some point? Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
stormbats 10 months ago
@stormbats Well, the five other gun crews had been talking smack and then we just spanked them on that mission as we had been all day. He was just giving it back to them.
fjwjr 10 months ago
@fjwjr Thats why I loved bein 13B out in the field talking sh!t to the other sections and the competition!! God I miss them days.
dan28301 9 months ago
@fjwjr and that's how accidents happen. Been there done that.
gijoegotogo 9 months ago
After he fires he puts something in and then out of the gun before they put everything in. What is that and what is he doing?
Chakiejan 10 months ago
@Chakiejan Sometimes after the round is fired some smoldering parts of the powderbag can remain in the breech. The number one man takes a round sponge that is on the end of a staff that was sitting in a bucket of water next to the trail and runs it in and out of the breech make sure nothing burning remains that would ignite the next powderbag when it's put in the breech.
fjwjr 10 months ago
i think slow )))
vlad9vt 10 months ago
@vlad9vt Sorry to hear that. Blame your parents.
fjwjr 10 months ago
@fjwjr FROM 0:32 to 0:39 very slow
Russian artileristy make the shot much more quickly - without these
unnecessary and strange actions. Perhaps it is such a special design
This howitzer
but as for me it's a defect structure itself - need to simplify everything to open fire (make the shot)
vlad9vt 10 months ago
@vlad9vt Ok, Mr. Expert. Can you tell me the type of ammunition being used?
fjwjr 10 months ago
How come these guys took this long?
I watched a video where some blokes got 3 rounds off in 20seconds?
LordBob1234 10 months ago
@LordBob1234 Hard to say. I don't know what video you are referring to. It could have been a different weapon system which would have different operating procedures.
It also could have been a combat video where this is a training video so all the procedures must be (and were) followed.
Also don't know what branch of service you were watching. It seems that Marines have slightly different 'standards'.
So it's hard to answer your question.
fjwjr 10 months ago
@fjwjr @fjwjr
Ahh k, thanks for replying!
They are in Iraq so im guessing it would be a combat video.
They are also doing a lot less then what you guys were doing!
and being australian, I have no idea how you can tell between a marine and a soldier from a distance haha
LordBob1234 10 months ago
Slow!
1982nb 11 months ago
@1982nb That's obvious. But don't worry. The short bus will be along soon to collect you up. (no licking the windows)
fjwjr 11 months ago 2
mos 13B. leave for fort benning on may 31
colesjeff12 11 months ago
@colesjeff12 Good luck.
fjwjr 11 months ago
@colesjeff12
that is odd, they still had OSUT at Fort Sill back in 07. sucks that you have to travel back to Sill after basic, but good luck man.
TheGreenSmoke 11 months ago
terorist
kanepe40 1 year ago
@kanepe40 What does that spell?
fjwjr 1 year ago 2
Hooah! Future 13B here! leaving for basic in June then off to FT Sill for AIT! can't wait!
jc091393 1 year ago
@jc091393 Good luck my friend!
fjwjr 1 year ago
@jc091393 Same here bud, leave the 7th
Goodspittin 1 year ago
Hmm, Not the slickest drills I have seen. Dropping the lanyard each time on the ground is poor form. After firing and disconnection we throw it over our head and it hangs down our chest where we can grab it for the next round. Ubique!!! 105th Mdm Bty 1st Fd Regt RAA
zacandmillie 1 year ago
now why are you using meters and kilometers as length. don´t you americans have feet and miles and stuff?
TaleOfValors 1 year ago
@TaleOfValors The military goes off of the metric system because that's what most of our allies use.
SherpaSherp 1 year ago
how heavy are those rounds?
Fourteen88SoCal 1 year ago
@Fourteen88SoCal 98 lbs.
fjwjr 1 year ago
@fjwjr damn!
Fourteen88SoCal 1 year ago
47 years ago and it still brings tears to my eyes. Long live the King of Battle!
pwinnsr 1 year ago
place a styrofoam cup just past the muzzle break and watch....compression will smash the cup.
BigCity3012 1 year ago
@BigCity3012 It'll blow the windows out of a jeep that's 200 meters in front also.
fjwjr 1 year ago
Always liked the towed guns, and its always wonderful to see artillery from around the world, proud to be an M109 commander !
DeflectionDrive 1 year ago
some people say that artillery men are pussies...i tell them they are completely wrong. Versus a Professional military, the artillery will be attacked first
Jakekimch 1 year ago
ill be doin this soon!!! Ft. Sill here i come
ckranich9 1 year ago
@ckranich9 Good luck my friend.
fjwjr 1 year ago
@ckranich9 when you ship out man? i'm heading out the 9th same deal.
happymerc 1 year ago
@ckranich9 Been their done that. You'll be training on the new M777. They may still have the M198 around. The best one is the M109A6. That's the one I trained on in 99 and it rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOA
Husky35621 1 year ago
Thank you men! I am glad that I'm on your side. (12B retired)
jcsftwre 1 year ago
so how deaf do these guys become after words
lokalllize 1 year ago
@lokalllize As long as you wear hearing protection and stay behind the midpoint of the tube, it shouldn't be bad. Over the years, it can have a cumulative effect.
fjwjr 1 year ago
@lokalllize
I spent 4 years (USMC) firing 105's and 55's like this....we wore no hearing protection...I now have a 'service connected' disability and some really nice hearing aides from the VA.....
pwm02176 1 year ago
@pwm02176 I hear ya, brother. Oooohhh, bad choice of words.
fjwjr 1 year ago 2
How many officers are there per howitzer?
walloon9 1 year ago
@walloon9 None. There is one Lieutenant per firing platoon.
fjwjr 1 year ago
I'm an ex-redleg. Been away from the gunline for 15 years. Just wondering though, do they not use a gunners quadrant anymore? Nice show guys and keep up the good work.
jesterzlaf 1 year ago
I didn't know the Army still used towed? i thought it all was self propelled?
Acroix707 1 year ago
YEAH!!! TALKING SHIT ON YOUTUBE! BITCHES!!!!!
snipesava 1 year ago
fjwjr (or anyone), could you clarify the calls? i hear "bore clear," "i see red," and, of course, "fire," but some of the others are a little harder to make out. just interested. thanks.
bartlebybartleby 1 year ago
Congrats to All the SOLDIERS who talked shit. I fucking hope that one of your rounds goes off in the tube BECAUSE THE CHIEF NEVER VERIFIED FUZE, ROUND, FUZE SETTING, or THAT THE FUZE WAS TIGHTENED PROPERLY! So when you have as many rounds as I have or have the MARINES that follow me into combat you will truly know why Myself and all my friends laughed our asses off at all your responses. ( no shit, you have a good ammo team)... that one man though needs to practice his dance.
MFSC6644 1 year ago
@MFSC6644 Go to school powder boy.
fjwjr 1 year ago 6
@MFSC6644 Pause the video at :06, :25, :42, and 1:02 and you can see the Chief verify fuze, round, and fuze setting.
drummerboy139 1 year ago
@MFSC6644 Duh!!!! He did check why do you think the guys brought the round on the loading tray to him instead of going straight for the breach,You can see him check it! Same with powderman! shesh!!
dan28301 9 months ago
@MrMagic1163 You're still wrong and you're done.
fjwjr 1 year ago
Sweet!!!
creekdrifter 1 year ago
I love how each shot shifts the camera around. =D
CaptainSeato 1 year ago
@MrMagic1163 dude youre stupid as fuck
PumpkinRat 1 year ago
@PumpkinRat Thanks for you're highly skilled and deep thought-provoking reply.
MrMagic1163 1 year ago
@MrMagic1163 youve obviously never seen first hand how much damage 5 155mm rounds have done in person well i have and i can tell you that youre fucking retarded by dissing it
PumpkinRat 1 year ago
too much guys go hard
olockfrmnz 1 year ago
awesome man. that ain't no cannon with guys its a machine gun
pyroman675 1 year ago
i don't see how you say marines are better when you guys come to our post Ft.sill and learn artillery, imma FO and i rely on army better than marines, marines are so slow that by the time the rounds come the enemy is moving or moved
tcooper06 1 year ago
i don't see how you say marines are better, you guys come onto our post, Ft. Sill to learn artillery so i don't see how your better, imma fister and id rather have my rounds come from Army bc Marines are so freak-in slow by the time the round comes the enemy is gone
tcooper06 1 year ago
When in the infantry we LOVED our "cannon cockers"!! Good job guys!
randy109 1 year ago
Damn good.
TheRedLegRanger 1 year ago
haha thank you. This video is a bunch of army fags trying to be as cool and as fast as MARINE ARTILLERY. BTW, the Chief never verified anything. Good job Army.... God you guys suck... Sincerely, Real US MARINE ARTILLERY SECTION CHIEF.
MFSC6644 1 year ago
@MFSC6644 Wow, blind guy. If you say the Chief never verified anything, it's obvious you didn't know what you were looking at.
If you're a Section Chief, that explains why the -10 manual is written for 5th graders. (I've always wondered that)
fjwjr 1 year ago 7
@fjwjr The jarhead's don't have their own Artillery school so we put up with them, when I was in Ft. Bliss we fought them at N.T.C. , at the bar's in Juarez but I would glady have a Marine by my side in any battle. Two of my son's are Marine's.
TheRedLegRanger 1 year ago
@fjwjr Those guys were going by the book. When I was on a M-198 we seldom went by the book when we had to be fast. The #1 would keep primers in his hand, we would not swab, we would not use the feed tray or the ram rod (our #2 was strong enough to seet the round with one arm), our #3 would put the powder in as soon as our #1's arm cleared the tube and the #1 closed the breach as soon and the #3's hand cleared the tube. We once got of 8 rounds off in under a munute.
kraigthorne 11 months ago
@MFSC6644 Any credibility you had as a Section Chief is gone since you posted that bullshit "Jump Fire" video on your page. Where's that at in the FM? Sincerely, a Real US ARMY ARTILLERY PLATOON LEADER.
drummerboy139 1 year ago 2
@drummerboy139 OMG. That was literally the dumbest, most irresponsible thing I've ever seen done on a gun line!
MFSC6644, way to lead by example!
fjwjr 1 year ago 2
@fjwjr Dosn't is hurt your fucking ears?
langhalsen 1 year ago
@langhalsen WHAT?
fjwjr 1 year ago
@fjwjr the sound when firing, dosn't it hurt your ears? I don't see any ear protection...
langhalsen 1 year ago
@langhalsen CAN'T HEAR YOU!
fjwjr 1 year ago
@fjwjr I SAID DO YOU GET EAR DAMAGE WHEN YOU STAND THAT CLOSE TO A FIRING FUCKING CANNON?
langhalsen 1 year ago
@langhalsen lol that's funny. You can. Soldiers are supposed to wear ear plugs, but sometimes a round from your gun or a gun next to you can catch you unprepared.
Being in the wrong place one time when the gun next to mine shot a charge 8 red bag left my ears ringing for three days.
fjwjr 1 year ago
@fjwjr That only really applies if you are near danger area echo.
dan28301 9 months ago
@MFSC6644
All I can say, I was in Artillery unit while I boxed for the Army and in 3 ocassions this fag fought against the marine boxing team and the 3 times we beat the shit out of your tough super marines (I guess they were having a bad day) . You can look it up if you want to. sorry but we fags are way better fighters.
sydnietaina 1 year ago
@MFSC6644 WTF? I was around field artillery--Marine and Army-- for 26 years. Never saw anything as stupid, unprofessional and unsafe as that "Section Chief Jump Fire" fiasco you posted. "Great" leadership by that person who, I guess , was supposed to be the section chief. I've seen excellent Army artillery and excellent Marine artillery. Marine grunts and Army grunts cover each other's backs. This inter-service trash-talk is invariably done by children who haven't a clue about who they speak.
4325air 1 year ago
@MFSC6644 armys where its at son u can suck a dick
wendyspwnsu 1 year ago
Loudest party ever!
hubergeek 1 year ago
1:19 you can see the projectile
BigLouieLittlePhilly 1 year ago
Yea... its ballistic eyewear, and their in the ARMY!!! not the Marines. Good job guys putting rounds downrange.
forazitalian 1 year ago
Not like I know that much about artillery but i get the idea that the dude actually pulling the trigger is using a lanyard or whatever. But why does he keep dropping it on the ground? Doesn't seem terribly efficient because he keeps having to pick it up. Just sort of curious.
cobolhacker 1 year ago
@cobolhacker I can't say I know much about it either so if someone comes along and corrects me so be it but I think that it's just a safety issue.
jerseydevil126 1 year ago
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Pretty good. When I was in the finnish military doing my service, we once fired 8 shots with an 152 mm gun in about 1m and 50 secs. A fire mission like that is called an "obstruction". It,s fired when there,s such a huge enemy force coming at you that a fire mission like that is needed to stop it. Firing more than 8 shots could melt the gun
ikosabre 1 year ago
whats with the sunglasses on every yank marine? Looks fucking stupid.
Jesyce86 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 Which one's the Marine?
BTW, it's called ballistic eyewear.
fjwjr 1 year ago 7
@fjwjr no Marines here. all them are soldiers. (ARMY) These guys fired the first round in the time Marines fired three.
mspyder 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 im sure noone wants dust to get in their eye
swiftbluedragon 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 Thats Army btw...
CCSP4657 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 Thats Army btw..
CCSP4657 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 These are army soldiers, look at the gray patterned uniforms and patches on the arms... try again! Semper!
kamesan2007 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 u look fucking stupid...
mspyder 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 get your facts straight you retard. those aren't marines.
killingkarma 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 all army soldiers not marines and its required wear its ballistic eye protection not SUN GLASSES dumb shit
PumpkinRat 1 year ago
@Jesyce86 why dont you have some fuckin decency and respect for those in the military and keep your mouth shut!!! nice fire mission guys
ODSTScoppyElite 1 year ago