Letters from Your Soldiers
SEND THIS ARTICLE TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS, TV STATIONS, AND NEWSPAPERS.
AMERICA, APRIL 16, 2024 – Good morale boosts mission effectiveness and survival. Care goods boost morale. Times are tough at home. And in the midst of that, our soldiers slog on and do the impossible for us every day! We’re Americans – we can do anything! When the going gets tough, real Americans get going. So let’s step up for them the way they step up for all of us! Call your local stations today and see what they’ll make happen for the troops deployed to protect them.
- Ask your local radio stations, TV stations, and newspapers to tell their audiences how people and companies can send care goods to their troops!
- They just go to https://supportourtroops.org/care-packages
- They will find a list of things the troops are requesting, and the rules.
- People and companies send goods to Support Our Troops® at the address listed there.
- And they get repacked according to need and send overseas.
- Simple!
All Together Now!®
"Everything you have sent has been such a blessing from the plastic utensils to the blank CDs and memory sticks. Even the simple things are hard to come by out here so every last bit helps and makes it that much easier for us to do our job. Thank you for all you do in support of us and all of our fellow soldiers out here. You are truly a blessing."
SSGT Kristen ----
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Skies Above North Carolina. (March 29, 2024): Vietnam veterans remember the courageous door gunners who protected them during numerous combat insertions. Manning the veritable M60 machine gun, door gunners “sprayed the trees” to clear enemy troops from the landing zone. Today, the door gunner’s job remains the same, but the firepower sure has changed. In this photo by Lance Corporal Orlanys Diaz, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Parrish Hall II, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 67, fires a GAU-17A minigun, the latest and most powerful light aircraft weapon.
In Vietnam, door gunners were hamstrung by the M60s rate of fire of only six hundred rounds per minute. These and other light machine guns became obsolete with the advent of jet aircraft and the need for a weapon with increased range, rate of fire, and projectile lethality.
Enter General Electric and its “Vulcan” GAU-17A, a six barrel electrically operated gatling gun that can be mounted on vehicles, helicopters, and boats. It has an incredible rate of fire up six thousand rounds per minute. The “Gatling” design is based on the multi-barreled rotary weapon invented by Richard J. Gatling in the 1880s. Instead of a hand crank, today’s “miniguns” use electric motors to power the barrels and the weapon is equipped with a ""high"" (4,000 rpm) and "low" (2,000 rpm) rate of fire selector switch. They are typically mounted in the doors/windows on helicopters for self-defense in landing zones.
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