Posted by Bill(Wis) on November 10, 2012 at 16:27:00 from (184.75.123.14):
In Reply to: 28 years? posted by Rich Iowa on November 09, 2012 at 19:12:35:
Brings back memories. May of 1964. I was an army captain at Yuma Proving Ground and although Infantry branch was detailed to test activities administered by DARPA. (Defense Advanced Research Products Agency) We referred to the whole thing as "Disneyland East". You name it, we tested it. All the way from cluster bombs to german designed rocket assisted artillery to the Overland Train to Frank Rogallo parawing gliders to include a powered, piloted version to a six shot 105mm howitzer that looked like a big revolver on wheels to parachutes made of paper (yes, paper-they supported pallets of 4 55 gallon barrels and worked real good when they worked-about 25% of the time. Made a really big splash when they didn't as they were filled with water. All that plus at least one hundred other things equally as strange. Great fun. I enjoyed every minute of it. Went on from there to command an air cavalry troop which wasn't anywhere near as interesting. They changed my branch to armor without even asking. What an outrage!
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