Fished a lot with a buddy on the Ohio. A couple times brought my 5 year old daughter along, one trip she caught the biggest fish caught that day, with a sapling poll and hook with no bate - go figure.
One of our jobs was to setup and demonstrate an armored attack supported by infantry. The Air Force provided napalm drops. Artillery saturated the kill zone just ahead of the tank and armored infantry assault. One of the artillery units fired from one hell of a big gun, a simulated battlefield nuclear round. This thing was so big you could watch it go over the hill (about a mile away) - where a team had set up a lot of gasoline to explode - they were good it made a mushroom type tower of smoke.
We
had the old Korean M135 "slush bucket" duce'n'halfs, they were better than
the WWII trucks of the Red-Ball-Express but not nearly as good as their
replacements. The automatic transmission hit like a big hammer on
every shift. I guess when you're haulling 2 1/2 tons of ammo thats not
such a bad thing.
