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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (96946)	12/1/2000 11:36:48 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Move Back 18 Feet" Brig. Gen. Carl A. Hagan of US Army Forces Command, speaking at an Air Force Association symposium in February 1990, shared a soldier's view of the awesome power of the Air Force gunship. Hagan's son Steve, a captain in the 82d Airborne Division, had taken part in Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989. On the first night, his unit found itself in a difficult spot. Fortunately, the captain told his father, there was an AC-130 gunship overhead: "We explained our situation and the guy [in the gunship] said, 'Where are you?' and we showed him, and he said, 'Where are the bad guys?' and we showed him that. There was a pregnant pause for a couple of seconds, and then he said, 'You need to move back 18 feet.' " "They did that," the elder Hagan reported, "and the AC-130 did its thing and eliminated all opposition. Now, that's close air support." --Excellent article on "The Awesome Power of Air Force Gunships" afa.org

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (96946)	12/1/2000 12:13:04 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Back in the '50s you could buy a semi-automatic 20mm anti-tank (German Solothurn) rifle for around $200. Even cheaper was a 20mm Finnish Lahti at $99 and mortars for $20-30. >> I remember back then you could buy a Thompson that had the barrel welded shut to make it legal and they same ad also sold new barrels. Saw on TV where a guy in Ohio has 45 tanks, all working. The guns on the early Puff shot 3,000 rounds per minute and were upgraded to 4,000 rounds later.