Re: [SGish] APC question

>Ryan
> 
> Balkans!!??? Launched out of the track with only a few broken bones. 
> I've read more than a few incidents where TCs left part of their 
> bodies behind when playing the part of a cannon ball. Lucky lucky 
> man. I'm glad you're still around to talk about it.
>
>No Gulf 2 days after it was all over ...........God has a sense of
humor!
>Guess it wasn't my time...
>
> I suspect Beth is wondering whether your crew bailed when you were 
> exiting the track. You didn't happen to see them on the return phase 
> of your arc did you?
> 
> </dark humor>....
>LOL no I didn't see and I don't remember much of it what I'm 
>telling you I got told to me because I was evaced .... but with
.the commanders hatch on the right and the blast lifting the track
>on that side I'd say my trajectory was rather flat ......lol
>
> 
> Was this in a Bradly or a M113?
>
>No an M109A3 , I think it had a lot to do with all the crap
>we had in there duffels ect and most of the ammo and all
>the powder charges were in the ammo carrier. We only had
>3 ready rounds in the racks and thankfully they weren't hit!
>The area was swept for mines already in fact we had gone
>north that way prior, ooops missed one.... we only caught
>the edge of the track by the sixth road wheel and the mine
>was pointed out at an almost 75 degree angle away from us
>or so they figure.
>