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« on: April 14, 2015, 11:26:06 AM »
Hey folks.  Been reading for awhile but just joined up.  Retired USA Combat Engineer here.  Thanks for having me.
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2015, 11:45:16 AM »
Welcome Matt! Glad you joined. Great group of folks here
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2015, 01:07:45 PM »
Welcome Matt!!
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2015, 01:42:25 PM »
Welcome
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2015, 03:07:57 PM »
Welcome aboard!

12B?
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2015, 04:09:23 PM »
Welcome!
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2015, 04:17:15 PM »
12B until the smart folks on high made us 21B's.
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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2015, 04:39:59 PM »
12B until the smart folks on high made us 21B's.
Back when I was a tanker, before my pilot days I once climbed inside a CEV...Know what that is?
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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2015, 09:12:22 PM »
Cleverly Engineered Vehicle ? :)
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« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2015, 09:16:32 PM »
Welcome Matt (?)

Were glad you're amongst us, wade right in!

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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2015, 09:34:40 PM »
Welcome.  Now we got somebody that knows how to make things go boom with his hands  ;D
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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2015, 09:38:28 PM »
Cleverly Engineered Vehicle ? :)
Nope

But our Combat Engineer should know...
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2015, 09:42:21 PM »
Combat Engineer Vehicle

Basically a M60 chassis and modified turret with a blade, folding crane and a 165mm demolition gun
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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2015, 10:08:41 PM »
So you're saying, being close to Ft. Knox, with your previous foray into armored vehicular command, you couldn't arrange for a "road trip" for those people who never get to push over a tree in a tank?  Just think of all those videos you could get of commanders being plucked from the turret!   ;D
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2015, 10:11:22 PM »
So you're saying, being close to Ft. Knox, with your previous foray into armored vehicular command, you couldn't arrange for a "road trip" for those people who never get to push over a tree in a tank?  Just think of all those videos you could get of commanders being plucked from the turret!   ;D

I doubt you could make that happen if you tried. That had to be a one time (ever) thing!
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« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2015, 11:26:07 PM »
Welcome Matt! Glad you made the leap.  Look forward to hearing more from you
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« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2015, 12:03:29 PM »
Correct on the name.  The gun on that thing had a max effective range that was well inside the minimum safe distance.  I spent a lot of time as a light fighter.
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« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2015, 12:31:27 PM »
Correct on the name.  The gun on that thing had a max effective range that was well inside the minimum safe distance.  I spent a lot of time as a light fighter.
I remember hearing that from a CEV crewman. Back in my early days in the Army, when I was a NCO, I attended BNCOC as what was then a 11E, which turned into a 19E (M60 Armor crewman) We had an assortment of combat arms guys and one of those CEV guys. Come the FTX part of the training, they had one of those things out in the woods with us. Looking at that gun which does little more than lob a hefty charge a short distance to blow things like buildings and mine fields and bridges up, I always wondered about it. I was gunning the 105mm rifled gun back then and it was flat out deadly. I can only imagine what the A2 guys now experience shooting a 120mm. Or what it must be like on the receiving end of it!
Out of curiosity, do engineers still use the CEV in some modernized version?
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« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2015, 04:38:42 PM »
There is  an M1 variant that has a plow and 2 miclic shots on it without any main gun.  I think it is called a Wolverine.  They also put and AVLB on the M1 chassis.
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« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2015, 04:40:08 PM »
The bridge vehicle is called the Wolverine.  The one with the Plow and Miclic charges is called the Assault Breach Vehicle.
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« Reply #20 on: April 15, 2015, 04:50:45 PM »
fort knox is no longer the home of the armor.  knox has been regulated to HRC and a bunch of cry baby ROTC advancement camp exercises (think really laxed basic training for commissioned occifers).  they don't even do basic training there anymore.
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« Reply #21 on: April 15, 2015, 05:20:51 PM »
fort knox is no longer the home of the armor.  knox has been regulated to HRC and a bunch of cry baby ROTC advancement camp exercises (think really laxed basic training for commissioned occifers).  they don't even do basic training there anymore.
I didn't know Armor moved away!

Wow, Knox made tankers from WW2!
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« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2015, 08:30:25 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: April 16, 2015, 02:38:37 AM »
They put Armor at Benning, a couple, 3 years ago roughly. There's also a WTU at Knox, in addition to what Nate said, and I think that's it.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2015, 06:38:20 AM »
I'd take that movement as defacto proof that Knox (vault) is empty!  Probably only houses Lois Lerner and Hillary's email servers now........
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« Reply #25 on: April 16, 2015, 08:44:20 AM »
And the IOU's.
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« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2015, 08:45:56 AM »
They put Armor at Benning, a couple, 3 years ago roughly. There's also a WTU at Knox, in addition to what Nate said, and I think that's it.
I think the 229th aviation is still there. Guard guys flying AH-64D's
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« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2015, 08:47:00 AM »
And the IOU's.
With the names of the 50 states on them

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« Reply #28 on: April 16, 2015, 01:01:15 PM »
Welcome Matt!

That would fun to drive around a 4x4 event and pluck vehicles out.
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« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2015, 09:48:29 AM »
The demo gun would be motivation to not get stuck.
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« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2015, 09:58:26 AM »
The demo gun would be motivation to not get stuck.

Funny!
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« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2015, 11:57:12 AM »
The round from that thing looks like a kitchen garbage can flying down range.  Lets call it more of an area weapon.
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« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2015, 03:17:50 PM »
I seem to remember seeing that thing and a M551 Sheridan, another abnomolly shooting at something on a range. It would go boom, then you'd wait, and wait, and wait, then KA-Pow! The round would hit. My crew figured we could shoot the same target twice while we were waiting for the CEV round to finally land someplace!
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