Those Vietnam gun trucks are interesting.

They are similar in many ways to the way US PT boats ended up in the Solomons & PNG. They had anything that they could find a space to bolt down on them, when their task became chasing Jap supply barges at night, a task torpedos were not much use for. A typical result of long bureaucratic supply lines, a couple of years behind in providing suitable equipment.

The same thing happened with the patrol boats on the Mekong, developing the fire power to do the job required.

We had an 85 foot supply of stainless steel in Rabaul. The Yanks built a couple of PT boats out of stainless, but they were a failure. After the war one was brought into Rabaul, & dragged ashore, up behind the main road. Plenty of stainless available, you just had to hack it off the thing.

The worst thing was, before battery powered tools, if you didn't have a pretty big gen set to drive 240V tools, it took a while, & a lot of sweat, to get what you wanted with a hacksaw. It was fascinating going over the thing & seeing all the local modifications they had done, to try to make the thing work, both in armament & ventilation.

Would the offended please be so kind as to offer their opinion on the holding up of severed heads for the cameras in comparison to the skull/cross bones etc ?

individual,

Leftist, Fifth Column Australians are too busy hating their own country to give any thought to something as trivial as Muslims sawing off and brandishing human heads.

Dear Steele,

I've just read your defence of
myself and Paul concerning the massacres in Rwanda and the
remarks made by Jayb.
I had no idea that Jayb would say something as horrific as that.

Why would Jayb say something like that?

Thank You for defending us.

I am truly grateful.

Jayb,

"Bob Bowtell was in 17 Construction 65/66."

Then it's when I was in 2 Base Wksp, RAEME (Dept of Defence civilian by then), that I would have known him.
We had dealings on a day to day basis with the RAE, who were just down the road from us.
We also took some of their apprentices each year for a bit of extra training, or part of their trade testing, I forget which.

Hi Foxy and Steele

I don't normally read those long winded reminiscing GI Joe posts of the likes of JayB, frankly there are boring, more likely something he likes to recount with a touch of embellishment after one too many schooners on ANZAC Day, as he pisses up with his old comrades down at the RSL. Seems he has had some grubby involvement with militarism somewhere along the line, good for him.

As for what took place in Rwanda in the 1990's, the horrific atrocity that was unleashed upon the Tutsi people, it was one of the worse instances of genocide in modern history. Upwards of 1,000,000 were exterminated in a very short period of time. A great failure of the UN Mission in Rwanda was that it stood by and done nothing as the atrocity unfolded. Certainly none of us three mentioned here condone what happened, and for JayB to say otherwise is disgusting.