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When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
You could buy 10 of these for what one TOW Missile costs! _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Actually, that would be a neat variant - a TOW-armed Vespa! Neil

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Trouble with 2 wheels is the darn thing keeps falling over. 106's had to be the loudest things on earth. Saw some scout platoon guys put empty ammo crates behind one to see how far the back-blast would throw em! Inspection day, CSC 3/5, (Later renamed 193rd Inf Brigade) Panama 106's at far end, TOW's , M-60's, and FIST platoon jeeps.

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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Early 80s I am guessing by the red car? Neil

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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Hey Neil, 1984. Pretty ratty looking cars, huh? And those were the good ones. The CO made the real clunkers park in the back lot!

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
- Neil_Baumgardner Early 80s I am guessing by the red car? Neil The 'gamma-goats' are a kicker also. I came in in Jan 85 and they were gone from most units. The 'GOAR' lingered into 86. Replaced with HEMMITs. At least at Fort Hood in 85-86. Don _________________ "Gonna hold my breath until Armor returns home..."

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Having lugged a 90mm RCL as a combat engineer, I would have welcomed a Vespa transported recoilless rifle. Don, love the Dontos avatar! I guess early 80s from the pickle suits. I joined ROTC in 1982 and by then, except for a couple soon-to-be retirees, most of the cadre were wearing BDUs. By 1983 only uncontracted ROTC cadets still wore them. Everyone else wore BDUs. _________________ RobG

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: When I grow up I want to be an Ontos!
Steve Rauch pics of our "Dirty Delta", 17th Cav, 101st Abn. Aero Rifle RR section doin' the thing.... ...and what's left of one of these when one hits a mine:

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:44 pm
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Hi Doug! Hi Folks!

- Doug_Kibbey

Steve Rauch pics of our "Dirty Delta", 17th Cav, 101st Abn. Aero Rifle RR section doin' the thing....

...and what's left of one of these when one hits a mine:

It's nice to see that folks back here in the states now care when a wheeled vehicle hits something like that. During our time, most of the folks back in the states didn't care.

Strange how times have changed some.
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