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"Peter" <turned.up@the.side> wrote in message
news:MPG.19dcc08917877e0098a0c8@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> In article <3f71ce4d$0$28121$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
> icentral@optusnet.com.au says...
> > So Peter,
> >
> > Just answer these as best you can ...
> >
> > 1. If I said Enfilade, grazing fire from defilade position - what would
that
> > describing and where would I be  ?
>
> Enfilade fire is fire that is aimed along a "file" of targets, such as
> firing at a column of tanks advancing along a road from directly in front,
> or from the side at a line of assaulting infantrymen. Defilade is a
> position where you cannot be taken under fire yourself, such as behind a
> bank or on a reverse slope. Grazing fire is fire that "grazes" the slope
of
> the earth, rather than striking the ground at a large angle. The advantage
> of this is that your fire can cover a larger area of ground, presumably
> striking more targets in the space immediately above that ground, say up
to
> about head high. For example, if the ground is rising ahead of you, your
> fire will tend to impact on a small area, but if it is falling gently, you
> will have a large beaten zone as the trajectory of your rounds follows the
> slope of the ground.
>
> Considerations such as these are of crucial importance when siting your
> machineguns. Enfilade, grazing fire from defilade position is obviously
> good for you and bad for the opposing team.

Yes

> > 2. What was the range of GPMG M60 on bipod without C2 Sights?
>
> 860 metres. You can't use the C2 sightunit without the tripod. One of the
> world's great bloody awful machineguns. Heavy, complex and poorly
designed.
> prone to stoppages and bits kept breaking. The barrel couldn't be changed
> without an asbestos glove and the bipod was attached to the barrel, so the
> poor old number two had to carry the weight of a glove and an extra bipod
> on the second barrel. Considering that it was a remake of the superb
German
> MG42, one wonders how the Yanks could have possibly gone so wrong.
>
> > 3. What was the muzzle velocity of an SLR ?
>
> 823 m/s

Yes

> Great weapon for drill. The Austeyr just isn't the same.
>
> > 4. Did anyone ever show you how to make a SLR full auto with a match ?
>
> Yeah. The idea is to stop the safety sear from fully engaging. But a
> ringpull from a beercan lasted longer. So I'm told.

Yes

> > 5. Can you describe the inside of the SGTs Mess at QUR.
>
> Through a boozy haze.
>
> >     5.1         Where is it ?
>
> It's on the right end of the depot building as you enter the front gate.
> It's approached through a short corridor with the CO/Adjutants office on
> the left and the Chief Clerk's office on the right. There's a staircase
> going up to the lecture room on the first floor and there's a mark on the
> wall showing the height of the flood in 1974. The colours went under and
we
> spent an awful lot of time preparing for the colours parade where they
were
> replaced in 1978 - one of the first examples of the new design based on
the
> Australian flag rather than the British.

Yes

> >     5.2         I walk in the door - the bar is on my ....
>
> Right at the far end of the room. On the left side of the bar is the mess
> bell with a sign reading "He who rings this bell in jest Must buy a drink
> for all the rest" There were a few framed reproduction rifles, one of them
> a SMLE, on the wall at the right side.

Yes

> >     5.3         Out the back is a ....
>
> Beer garden under the cliff.

Yes

> > 6.     A QUR SLR was lost once where was it found ?
>
> Northern Ireland, unless you are referring to the SLR I supposedly dropped
> out of a helicopter.

Yes

> > 7.     Do you remember a Peter Lindsay, Sgt Wayne Hinton or a Sgt
Peterson ?
>
> Peter Lindsay was a pioneer. One of David Grimshaw's mates. He had a
> penchant for weapons and explosives. Someone dobbed him in to the cops who
> raided his place. One of the more bizarre tales was that he was going to
> mount a Claymore in the door of his car. He was a lance-corporal when I
> knew him and I doubt he ever made it to sergeant. The other two names ring
> bells, but too gentle for me to associate much with them.

Now works for the ATO.
Made it to Lance Jack at least twice and Fulltracks like time I saw him.

>
> Other members of the mess when I was there were the aptly named Dick
> Boundy; Kerry McGreevy whose life revolved around the ARes and took up
with
> Staff Aldridge who ran the pay section; Byron Murphy the Pioneer sergeant
> (no beard) and Matt Guley the RP who was also in the band.
>
> BTW, the RQ had his own song, to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne":
>
> You are RQ of QUR, QUR RQ are you.
> You are RQ of QUR, QUR RQ are you!