Since Vern Humphrey yelled this at Steve Henderson, I hollered this in 
response:
 VH> The TOW is an amazing weapon.  I was at the Canadian Ground Forces
 VH> Training Center at Gagetown, New Brunswick, for a demonstration
 VH> (Operation Arctic Warrior), and they fired a TOW.  The Commandant,
 VH> Brigadier Cherriton, made quite a speech about the TOW, then they
 VH> fired it -- and it went haywire.
On occasion, the wires break on exit from the launch tube.  After I
completed the Tech school, part of my duties as the Shop Chief in the TOW
repair shop was to be present on the firing line on qualifications day.
I've watched a couple of hundred of them go down-range.  I can only recall
four of them doing something other than what they were supposed to do.
Three of them broke wires and the fourth detonated when the warhead armed
in-flight.  -That- one was a spectacular fireball.  :)
 SH>I got to fire seven missiles in all.
 VH> Geeze -- that's more than the average gunner in a unit gets to fire in
 VH> a career.
I always pre-qualified above average as far as the scores were concerned,
however, in the USMC, -all- of the gunners and A-gunners fired a missile
yearly.  During some years, we also had live-fire exercises where the
higher qualifiers got to fire an additional missile.  I spent four years in
the Gun platoons and picked up three additional missiles due to the fact
that I -never- dropped out of the top ten during the qualifications.  The
final five and a half years were spent in the Tech shop.
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... Easter has been cancelled - they found the body.
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