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Back in the day this MOS was 45B. Many things I trained on in AIT are now museum pieces! M1911 pistol, 3.5 inch rocket launcher, 106mm recoiless rifle, M14 rifle and more !
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Yeah it always makes you feel old when the gear that was high tech when we joined the army is now obsolete
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SPC Gary Welch
CW5 Jack Cardwell I was a little bit after your time but I was talking with a soldier the other day at Walmart young kid 19 and the subject got around to gear when we got to radio equipment I told him I was an rto and carried the prc-77 with a Vinson he said I saw those in the first cavalry museum
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TSgt Joe C. PO3 Steven Sherrill CW3 Kevin Storm SSG (Join to see) SGM Steve Wettstein SMSgt Thor Merich MSG (Join to see) PO1 John Johnson MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Greg Henning PVT Mark Zehner MSG Tom Earley Alan K. SPC Mark Huddleston PO1 H Gene Lawrence SGT Elizabeth Scheck Sgt Deborah Cornatzer SSgt Boyd Herrst SPC Diana D. SFC George Smith
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Very cool ! I was a 45B back in the day. I remember at the school ( Aberdeen Proving Grounds ) they had a cut away of the new rifle we were getting, the M16A2 :) That was 1985, several Presidents ago :)
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SGT Terry Hand
I too was a 45B. Trained at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. The M16A2 and M249 was just being phased in and we still trained on repair of the 1911A1 and the .38 cal revolvers. The M60 was still the primary squad automatic weapon. The M240 was the coax gun on the M60 tank, I was fortunate enough to somehow get selected in 1985 while assigned to the 197th Infantry Brigade at Ft. Benning, GA. to go to Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois to test and help write the technical manual on the then new M9 Beretta pistol. Spent a month there TDY along with members of the other services testing the M9 and finalizing the tech manual on it. Recieved my first Army Achievement Medal for working at that TDY assignment.
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SPC Alan Donaldson
SGT Terry Hand What a unique experience ! I would fill out the correction sheets in the TMs when a mistake was found. They really do read those and address the issue. We were in during an interesting time :)
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