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echo: guns
to: STEVE HENDERSON
from: RICH WILLBANKS
date: 1996-07-08 20:05:00
subject: Re: TOW

 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. 
SH> Artillery is, by definition, an indirect fire weapon.  The
SH> TOW is line-of-sight only. 
Then what is a 155mm howitzer when it is used as a line
of sight antipersonnel weapon?  I have heard many a
stories of such things in Korea, Army and Marine guns.
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