A Marine unit that recently returned from Afghanistan killed a team
of Taliban insurgents with a record-setting artillery strike.
Golf
Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.,
dropped the 155mm M982 Excalibur round on insurgents 36 kilometers away —
more than 22 miles — in Helmand province. The strike was launched Feb.
12 from an M777 howitzer on a mountainside at Forward Operating Base
Zeebrugge, in Kajaki, to neighboring Musa Qala district, Marines said.
It marks the longest operational artillery shot in history for the Marine Corps, said Capt. Joshua Kling, the battery commander.
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That's a hell of a shot. I served with 4th Bn. 11th Marines for a time in 74. Those Cannon Cockers are a hell of a bunch. I was a radio operator on a 155 self propelled.
ReplyDeleteTHAT was an incredible shot!
ReplyDeleteThose guys should get a plaque or something. Now the Army will have to do a longer shot.
ReplyDeleteAkmed, what is that whistling noise? Silence, I kill you! Wrong, the Marines kill you!!!!
ReplyDeleteAs Major Ian Newby (Royal Canadian Artillery, Retired) once said, with the conclusive authority of an experienced battery commander:
ReplyDelete"On the modern battlefield, there really are only 2 categories of people: gunners..... and targets."
Hooah!
Grayson