Jbb
08-22-2005, 01:17 PM
love your site man. Got turned on to it by a fellow soldier here in Iraq. I sent some pics of our airplane that got hit by insurgent fire with 7.62 X 39 MM Armor Piercing (AP) rounds. One of the rounds came through the side of the plane, through the bottom of the blue cooler pictured, and was stopped by the can of Red Bull. Interestingly, this was the only round we recovered that was fragmented. The copper alloy jacketing seperated from the hardened steel core, bounced off the interior ceiling, and was found on the cabin floor. The core continued into the cooler and the Red Bull and was only found after the mission was completed and we were cleaning up, (no new underwear).
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