today we finished putting reactive armor on our bradleys. i don't know the exact details of how reactive armor works, but it is essentially dozens of blocks of C3 (younger brother of C4). the basic idea, as far as i can tell, is when an explosion comes at the reactive armor, it blows the force back out. i have two theories on how the army came up with this.
1) some officer (probably a major) sitting around the pentagon playing basketball with crumpled up paper heard the expression "fight fire with fire" for the first time and decided to see if it would work with things that go boom as well.
2) some officer (probably a major) sitting around the pentagon was having a really bad day and reverted back to a child who would rather break a toy than share it and shouted "you can't blow up our bradleys. we'll blow them up first!" this is how policy is made.
still, it wasn't too bad. it only took a few hours and we had some fun with it. and you really haven't lived till you've dropped a 120 pound block lined with explosives.
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Task: to come up with a good fg quote
Conditions: all quotes are open, minus the saftey features of a tank. too predictable.
Standards: make me laugh
Aba-ah-ah-ah hang on there, slick. Now I see your game. We come in here wanting a practical car, but then you dangle this tank in front of me and expect me to walk away. Now I may be an idiot, but there is one thing I am not, sir, and that, sir, is an idiot. Now, I demand you tell me more about this tank!
I've been up for far too long...you're not getting anything better than that.
I'm sorry...did you say tank??
Yes Lesley, he said "tank" (well, bradleys...but same diff right?)and notice how he keeps saying some major keeps coming up with this stuff? Isn't Don a major? hmmm....
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