Cascade Crew

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Here's a link to a video of one of the CIWS taking out a towed target during our last underway. It shot somewhere around 500 rounds and spashed the target.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1493608099709

Once I get a copy of it I'll post a link to the video of the two missiles I fired on the 7th. You can actually see the missile hit the drone and spash into the water.

blue89 · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject:

Holy crap! Shocked

I didn't realize the gatlin gun had improved so much since the... well... when?

DBL_TKE · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah you don't want to get in the way of that thing.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject:

This is one of my favorites, coming from the underwater community. MK 48 explodes under its target without making contact, and breaks the hull in half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBSixrh4G_4

Of course, that's nothing in comparison to this which drops the deck from under your feet when it launches Cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmgeHlCequc

d00012 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:14 am Post subject:

R2D2

I wish I had gotten some of those new uniforms. Those BDUs are sooo much better than the janitor clothes...they kept pushing back the deadline for the change while I was in. I also wish I was able to see more while I was in, like actually going on the Lincoln or seeing the Prowlers in Whidbey, which I was supposed to be assigned there but ended up in a holding unit in Everett, bleh(injured).

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

I love that it broke the ships keel when it got hit.

Here's a video I took during our last underway. The product of our chiefs and first classes not showing up for training.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-nA554XB8

d00012 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:03 am Post subject:

RSFreak · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:06 am Post subject:

They're still called BDUs in the Army.

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Nope, ours are called NWU's. Navy Working Uniforms

d00012 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

Oh ok. It sucked when they were supposed to come out when I went in bootcamp in '06, then they pushed it back 6 months, then turned into a year. I was looking foreward to have some Crying or Very sad

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That MK-48 is crazy. Creates that vacuum "bubble" and sucks everything in.