Mail Call: Mortar; WWII GI's Personal Items; Native-American Arrows

Air Date

Sunday September 8, 2002

Production Code

MC006

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• Stars

  • R. Lee Ermey Host

• Assistant Editors

  • Keith Reiner Assistant Editor

• Production Accountants

  • Donna Amato Production Accountant

• Post Production Supervisors

  • Matthew Duclos Post Production Supervisor

• Production Associates

  • Cate Eckenrode Production Associate
  • Jeremy Evans Production Associate
  • Jessie Gullion Production Associate
  • David Kingery Production Associate
  • Abe Scheuermann Production Associate
  • Brian Wolf Production Associate
  • Nicole Caprio Production Associate

• Directors

  • Rob Lihani Director
  • Andy Papadopoulos Director

• Executive Producers

  • Beth Dietrich Executive Producer
  • Robert Kirk Executive Producer
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• Native American marksmen were accurate up to 150 yards. [edit]
• Many soldiers in World War 2 would use condoms over their rifle barrels to keep them dry and clean. [edit]
• The Red Cross sent 300,000 tons of supplies overseas in World War 2. [edit]

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• R. Lee Ermey: A lot of mortars are used to suppress and to kill. But there are also mortar rounds to illuminate enemy positions at night and incendiary rounds used to set fires to conceal troop movement. Basically, they're all just big cans of whoop-a**. [edit]
• R. Lee Ermey: (answering question about mortars) If you know exactly where you are, and if you can figure out exactly where your objective is, then you can adjust the "angle of the dangle" and the direction of the mortar tube and drop rounds right into the enemy's "hip pocket." So I headed on out to the California desert to the Marine Corp Training Center at 29 Palms to learn how mathematics mixes with mayhem. [edit]
• R. Lee Ermey: (to viewers) Keep your candy a** in that recliner, it's time for Mail Call! [edit]

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