-=> Quoting Steve Henderson to Matt Smith <=-
 SH> Since Matt Smith yelled this at Steve Henderson, I hollered this in
 SH> response: 
 SH> however, in the USMC, -all- of the gunners and A-gunners fired a 
 SH> missile
 SH> yearly.  During some years, we also had live-fire exercises where the
 SH> higher qualifiers got to fire an additional missile. 
 
 MS> I remember when the USMC used them as light artillery in Beirut
 MS> before the bombing. 
 SH> The Marines have -never- used the TOW as artillery.  
As I recall, it was LAWS rockets.
 SH> Artillery is, by definition, an indirect fire weapon.  
How about 105's loaded with fleshettes?
 SH> The TOW is line-of-sight only.
Maybe so, but it will deliver some shrapnel down-range . . . . .
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