"Jay T. Beatty" wrote in message
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"Tank Fixer" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

"David W" wrote in message
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DM's LAW story, the A-12's @ Groom Lake,
the FB-4's in Turkey, P-38's in the 1950's ? I missed these,
anyone
care to fill me in or point me in the right direction please ?

They'll just screw it up so let me.

How nice of you to make the claims again.
I wouldn't want to mis-quote you.


I talked with an Oklahoma Nation Guard that said his unit trained at
FT
Hood
with the 82nd in the early 80s. It was an exercise of sorts. He
said
that
the Guards got a bit rambuntious and were getting mighty close to
the
82nd
until an 82nd place a LAW round just to the left (or right) of a
Guards
head. At that point, things were more than a bit intense and they
stopped
the exercise. I do know a few of the Guards were more than a bit
cocky
and
that 82nd troop probably did the best lesson they ever learned. Is
it
true?
You take it up with the OKGuards, not me. But it sounds like it
could
have
happened.

Does this pass the smell test ?
That live ammo was on an exercise ?
Troops shooting at(near) troops on purpose ?

Was it something like this type of exercise, EDRE when the brigade is on
DRB1, and the troops do not know if it is practice or for real? Would
live
ammo be used then? Is this what he is referring to, possibly?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...army/82abn.htm
10th paragraph down "An EDRE is nothing more than a practice deployment
which involves the DRF 1 Task Force and possibly the DRF 2 and DRF 3 as
well. When the EDRE is called, no one knows if it is practice or real.
The
units go through the entire alert, recall, and deployment procedures as
if
i
t is real. "

No, I was involved in several EDREs when I was in the 82nd and you
always
knew it as not for real when you got to the unit and they didn't hand out
live ammo.

Ah ok, well that's good. The article didn't stipulate if live or not. I
got to thinking that if they didn't know it wasm't for real that things
could get really messy.