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

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Sep 08, 2002

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R. Lee Ermey answers questions about how to aim a mortar, what were "Dragon's Teeth", what did the American G.I. carry with him as personal items in World War 2, what is military time, and how did the Native Americans make arrows.moreless

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- Native American marksmen were accurate up to 150 yards.
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- Many soldiers in World War 2 would use condoms over their rifle barrels to keep them dry and clean.
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- The Red Cross sent 300,000 tons of supplies overseas in World War 2.
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- Dragon's Teeth (concrete blocks intended to stop tanks) got their name from the fact that they were shaped like teeth and from the mythical story that Jason sewed dragons' teeth to grow soldiers.
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- The maximum range for the U. S. Marine Corp 81 mm mortar system is just over three and a half miles.
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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**.
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- 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.
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- R. Lee Ermey: (to viewers) Keep your candy a** in that recliner, it's time for Mail Call!
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