US Army Part 3

What the fuck am I doing here. One, its freezin ass cold outside. No one
told me that @WEst Germany would be this freakin cold. I was just taken
off the guns, off the firing line. They said FDC, Fire Direction Center
was authorized to have a 13B, cannon crewman, in their section. All I
was was the FDC driver, and generator operator. So what am I doing now?
They made me the radio man. What do I know about radios?

Ok, listen up Chappell, you have 2 radios. Our call sign is Whiskey25,
so listen up for that. Now this landline is in direct contact with all 6
guns on the guh line. You also have to send the guns their info inorder
to get a round out of the tube down range. You got that ? Oh yeah, this
is a CEOI, like a secret squirrel decoder password book, you will need
this. You're all set, not just wait for a fire mission.

Wait for what? Oh shit, the shit is gonna hit the fan, and I don't know
what the fuck I'm doing.

Just then the one of the 2 radios came to life..

Whiskey25, Echo25 over..
This is Whiskey25 over,
Whiskey25, radio check over
Echo25, radio check out.

Now that wasn't bad, was it? The FDCNCO then said, 'Stabdby Chappell, we
about to get into the shit now' and then it happened....

Whiskey25, Echo25, Adjust Fire over
Echo25, Whiskey25, adjust Fire out.

Whiskey25, registration Point, grid, 7845,8923, 2 T-62's in open, HE in
Effect over
Echo25, Whiskey25 registration Point, grid, 7845,8923, 2 T-62's in open,
HE in effect, break, authenicate, Foxtrop, bravo over.
Whiskey25, I authenicate alpha over
Echo25, this is Whiskey25, message to observer, HE in Effect out !!!

GUNS !!! FIREMISSION, Battery adjust, Base Piece adjust. Base piece
delflection, 354, qudrant 3456.

Check Base Piece, ready but not safe to fire
Check Base Piece safe & ready to fire.
Standby Base Piece....
Base Piece...FFFFFIRE !!!

Shot over
Shot out
Splash over
Splash out

Whiskey25, Echo25, left 5 0, drop 3 0 fire for effect over
Echo25, left 5 0, drop 3 0 fire for effect out

FIRE MISSION...BATTERY ONE ROUND !!!
Gun one deflection & quadrant
Gun two deflection & quadrant
Gun three delfection & quadrant
Gun four delfection & quadrant
Gun five deflection & quadrant
Gun six deflection & quadrant
Check guns ready but not safe to fire,
Check ALL guns safe and ready to fire
STANDBY GUNS.....
BATTERY...FFFFFIRE !!!

Shot over
Shot out
Whiskey25, Echo25, end of mission over
End of mission out.

That was more or less what a Fire Mission is all about on the techincal
side of things. That was just off of one radio from one forward observer
located no more than 26 miles away from where we were firing out
artillery shells from. Now imagin 2 radios, with 3 fire missions on each
of the 2 radios. Imagin if one of those fire missions is from an
untrained observer. An untrained observer is a person who is on our side
and he sees the enemy and he has a radio, and he is on our fire network
or net as we called it. I would ask him questions about the American way
of life to make sure he isn't the enemy. I would ask him what he sees
where he's at while I'm looking at a map to determin where he is at. I
would send one round from the guns, and then ask him where did he see it
land in accordance to where he sees the enemy at. Slowly but surely,
with hsi help, I would walk artillery fire towards my target. Mind you
now, I have maybe, 2 or 3 other fire missions going on. Yes, its
stressful.

Range Control, this is God over.
Range Control, Range Control, this is God over.
Negative contact, this is God out.
Last calling station, last calling station. Stay OFF my fire net. You
make have jurisdiction up in heaven, but this is MY FIRE NET, this is
Range Control OUT !!!

LMAO !!!
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