Had a gun jam in a CIWS mount and sat with a bunch of live 20 MM rounds falling out in my lap as we disassembled the drum with about 1000 rounds still in it. Oh and these were the new increased lethality rounds we were testing. Had to down load a missile that duded on the rail and didn't leave. I was the team lead.
And I still didn't get a pay raise.
Still an interesting find you got there.
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rjjablo, I ended up pulling the slug and emptying the powder. Pulled the casing out the same way it went in. Still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a little when I found it.
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haha - i hope this thread goes on and on and on. my "so what did you do to your roadster today" thread has split into threads on the GTM forum and Hot Rod forum...
i took the day off work to take dad to an outpatient surgery at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills. went to starbucks, got a window seat, and watched cars and women, neither of which i could afford, pass by.
except maybe this one.... what is it? texas plates, and i've never seen rollbars like that.
7.62x39 round being fired at you out of an AK-47? Well, that's a BIGGIE!!!
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Being outside of a chamber, wouldn't the case fly off with more velocity than the round?
Sorry. Don't know much about a 7.62. My military experience consisted of an M1 Carbine and a nuclear-tipped Titan II.
d
You're dating yourself there Don with that carbine. Mine was an M16 and B61s and B53s and SRAM missles I disarmed one once, does that count?
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except maybe this one.... what is it? texas plates, and i've never seen rollbars like that.
That is a Lonestar.
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rjjablo, I ended up pulling the slug and emptying the powder. Pulled the casing out the same way it went in. Still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a little when I found it.
I'm not sure which one was scarier, yours or mine. At least all I had to do was make sure the radars were off and then catch them in my lap and pass them on to the next guy to throw them overboard.
You had to actually pull the thing out, in peices!
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You're dating yourself there Don with that carbine. Mine was an M16 and B61s and B53s and SRAM missles I disarmed one once, does that count?
Hey Russ,
I qualified on the carbine at basic and then that's what we had in the silo. Probably left over from WWII.
Carried it topside a couple times. We had a security patrol for each "sector" and they drove among the sites in their sector, but a few times the weather got too bad and they'd stand down. If the anti-intrusion doppler horns got filled with snow they wouldn't reset, and without the security patrol we'd have to clean them out ourselves.
Gave me an excuse to carry the weapon but never got to use it.
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today at work, i moved my desk, because i got a promotion, raise, and new job title:
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i like the second part of the title better than the first! we are a design and build firm, so we still carry guild titles: apprentice, journeyman, etc.
We don't have titles at work so when I go to conventions I usually make one up. Last week at IMTS I was titled, "Abnormal Situations Engineer". I think I may have stolen that from someone here. Anyway, it made for several interesting conversations with exhibitors from other countries trying to figure out what kind of lead I might be.
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