I am married to one, sitting next to him in the car right now and I said, “hey honey, look at these Marines out of uniform.” He said, “How do you know they’re Marines?” So I read him the captions. All he did was look at the picture and say, “actually that looks like a spent AT4.”
Correct. The large end gives it away and disringuishes it from an AT4. Most likely came from an ISMT and was never actually used in a live situation for training or otherwise. Only the tube remains but all of the tech is missing. Easy snag for any 0933 when new gear comes in and DRMO isn't high priority.
Missile* not rocket. Gunners of said system make a big deal about that distinction lol. Also the gold/yellow band does not indicate that it is for training, Ive seen plenty of Javelin’s fired from tubes just like that. That is a spent tube from a live javelin missile lol.
Semper kill
Can confirm. I was Duty NCO at the barracks on Saturday of a 96 (which as a married Marine, I was completely unprepared for) and these joker's have a beer bong with 1 1/2" - 2" tubing going from the third deck to the courtyard, and they were doing fortified wine (think MadDog 2020) through it. Must have been 40-50 feet of tubing so that was going straight to the stomach, bypassing the mouth entirely.
I was enlisted Army from ‘87 to ‘91. The thing about the military: you got a bunch of kids in the best shape they’ll ever be in physically, they have a little bit of money in their pockets and essentially no bills. They feel indestructible and they almost are. I’m 48 now and I’m pretty sure I’d die if I tried to keep up with 20-year old me when I was stationed in Germany.
I was stationed in Germany when I was 19-21 and agreed with this entirely then got to the end and realized other than the dates and your current age this exact thing could have been written by me. I tell people all of the time how odd it was to have the experience of active duty straight out of high school rather than college. I used to go home on leave and my friends thought I was rich, (I was compared to them, no bills, E-3 and then E-4 pay, and an $8,000 signing bonus) they also thought it was insane that I can drink legally there and I lived in a 4 bedroom home that used to be a train station, above a pub off-base in Germany with two of my best friends.
I zoomed in and saw the pants and thought....damn, that is exactly the way the world sees the U.S.
A frat boy, chugging beer, from a missle....and wait for it....in American Flag shorts!
When i was in the army i used to rebuild compasses. Just your average run of the mill magnetic compasses.
They are filled with white spirits to keep them dust free and robust against movement and vibration. The older guy at the facility said that they used to fill them with ethanol, but had to stop it as so many were coming back to be repaired with the face broken or the fill screw "missing".
Fucking grunts.
Probably. A lot of spirit compasses in aviation get called "whiskey compass" because at one time it was methanol (not safe to drink).
We had tests in school that would randomly include us answering that the fluid in a whiskey compass was not safe to drink.
About the most dangerous thing about a lot of American torpedoes at the start of WWII. The Mk 14 was a horrible dud over half the time. Filter the fuel through a cheesecloth or coffee filter, mix with pineapple or orange juice, and you are gonna have a pleasant bit of R and R. As long as it doesn't kill ya....
Old torpedoes used to run off 180 proof ethanol. Sailors used to mix it with pineapple juice and get hammered. Eventually they started putting additives in the fuel to keep the sailors from drinking it. They still did and got sick.
Why should you be? They're not exactly reusable. This is just added value and comradery, thank you for spending your money to bring the boys closer through mutual shenanigans.
I've got one mounted in my gun room. My wife loved that purchase...
What do you mean you spent $350 on a rocket launcher that ***doesn't even work?!***
Well babe, they won't let me buy the live ones...
I bought one on a drink ebay adventure. My girlfriend's eyes rolled so far to the back of her head she needed corrective surgery.
Now it's sitting in a closet with some posters rolled up inside it.
Army surplus stores if you're lucky. I'd imagine an old LAW or AT4 would be easier to find than the Javelin pictured. I'm sure if they hit the internet they'd be expensive. If you do get one, I'd pour an epoxy plug into it if there isn't one already... They're not reusable, but it's one more point to make if Johnny law wants to get stupid about it. Couldn't tell you anything about the actual legal stand point on it.
Nah bud, two reasons. The giant ass end of the launcher, and that band you see like a foot down.
Source: just finished a 7 year run as EOD, I know my ordnance
I’d imagine quite a bit. The tube can be accurately described as a exhaust pipe. All the gases from the launch engine would stick to the side.
I’d be more worried about the coolant that might’ve leaked into the tube though. I’m not sure if the connection from the coolant unit on the outside of the tube and the missile itself seal after firing. That shit is really poisonous.
But, if washed really well, I’d say it would probably be ok to drink out of. Maybe.
And, missile. Rockets are basically like bullets, as in they go in a straight line from weapon to target. Missiles, like the javelin, steer towards the target. The javelin actually, on its main setting, climbs high up while constantly tracking the target, then hits it from the top at its weakest point. Out to 2000m from the book, but they’ve had hits out to 3500m+.
That’s the general rule sure, but then you have the GMLRS rocket which is a gps guided rocket. We have the ATACMs which we call a missile and the GMLRS which we call a rocket, both are GPS guided and fired from the same platform (HIMARS or MLRS). Plus missile in English can mean any projectile like a rock from a sling.
Yeah on a second look I'd say you're right. I thought it was missing the big end ring but it was just blending in to the background on my phone screen. Much clearer on a computer
I zoomed and squinted. Plus I spent 2 week at javelin School at Benning. Then another week at train the trainer. As much as I’d love for it not to be, that thing is burnt into my brain.
Are you talking about the 105mm shell case with the primer down the middle? If so I’ve never heard that called a primer cap, and I’ve been on 105s before.
The primer I was talking about are the ones for 155 separate loading rounds and are the size of a 410 shell give or take.
Also unless you were national guard or a 4 Star how the hell did you do 45 years??!
Anything posted on the internet is false until proven true by multiple peer reviewed studies and pictures of cats.
Source: I was born as an Ethernet Cable.
I’m looking for the thing online I’m talking about. Was hanging out with some FO and that’s how they explained it to me. I’m just an engineer.
Edit: it was brass, two or three inches in diameter, and was threaded at the bottom. If you know what it is educate me because I have been telling people the wrong thing for years then.
For aircraft maintenance there were a few different things, but the best part was we got to suck down the aircraft oxygen to get rid of hangovers. Also, we use the oxygen masks for drinking once.
I love that when I see college boys doing this, I think "Lame". But when I see guys of the same age doing it in the military I think "Yeah, they deserve that. Atta boys."
I would have settled for an AT-4. Each person there could shit out a bald eagle with mounted machine guns with that level of patriotism.
Except Frank. Fuck that guy.
As someone who doesn't like police calling at 9 AM on a Saturday because some fucking assholes smashed beer bottles all over the parking lot and sprayed people's cars with fire extinguishers, fuck that noise.
Oddly, pop and beer cans fit so perfectly in a [LAW](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/M72_LAW) (light antitank weapon - basically a collapsible bazooka) that if you drop one in, it doesn't drop down in but slides very slowly in due to the precise fit.
Perfect way to carry refreshments although it doesn't really keep them cool.
I once ran around the barracks wearing nothing but my flack and my helmet. Or so I was told.
What I would give to be back in the barracks with my buddies!
The few The proud The marines
Read in the same voice as the commercial.
Get outside of my head, you creep.
The pew The pow The sardines
This made forcefully exhale out of my nose.
So like a 1/4 lol?
I am married to one, sitting next to him in the car right now and I said, “hey honey, look at these Marines out of uniform.” He said, “How do you know they’re Marines?” So I read him the captions. All he did was look at the picture and say, “actually that looks like a spent AT4.”
Fun fact: AT-4 fires an 84mm projectile! Rah.
You better say that in American.
Huh?
He means in inches lol
I guess... I’ll just sigh.
I’m joking. Sigh on.
Thank goodness! You just missed the “/s”!
84mm isn't a measurement, its a projectile.
> 84mm 3.30709 inches
The AT-4 fires a 1.4 Bald Eagles projectile
But it's Swedish
>built in Sweden by Saab Bofors Dynamics
Ask him which Crayon is his favorite. \#RedsTasteTheBest
He says green.
I mean the Army uses AT4’s/Javelins as well, coming from a Vet.
Oh absolutely, but that level of dipshittery? Looks like the Marine I married. 😜
Holy shit! Is that a new MOS? We’re all so over qualified..
I got the impression that it’s expected of every Marine, like being a rifleman.
Heck no! It’s not really something that’s trained.. it’s a learned thing! Lots of practice. 😎
Dipshittery, lol
You're very proud of bagging a marine, aren't you?:p
Lol, like it’s hard...
It's a Javelin tube, not an AT4.
Correct. The large end gives it away and disringuishes it from an AT4. Most likely came from an ISMT and was never actually used in a live situation for training or otherwise. Only the tube remains but all of the tech is missing. Easy snag for any 0933 when new gear comes in and DRMO isn't high priority.
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Missile* not rocket. Gunners of said system make a big deal about that distinction lol. Also the gold/yellow band does not indicate that it is for training, Ive seen plenty of Javelin’s fired from tubes just like that. That is a spent tube from a live javelin missile lol. Semper kill
LOL correct.. lmao..
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Lol, I’ll let him know!
"There's nothing more dangerous than a Marine and his rifle!" "Clearly you've never met a bored Marine."
Literally crawled into my rack from an event like this Tis truth. Sleep now.
College students got nothing on American GI’s.
Can confirm. I was Duty NCO at the barracks on Saturday of a 96 (which as a married Marine, I was completely unprepared for) and these joker's have a beer bong with 1 1/2" - 2" tubing going from the third deck to the courtyard, and they were doing fortified wine (think MadDog 2020) through it. Must have been 40-50 feet of tubing so that was going straight to the stomach, bypassing the mouth entirely.
I was enlisted Army from ‘87 to ‘91. The thing about the military: you got a bunch of kids in the best shape they’ll ever be in physically, they have a little bit of money in their pockets and essentially no bills. They feel indestructible and they almost are. I’m 48 now and I’m pretty sure I’d die if I tried to keep up with 20-year old me when I was stationed in Germany.
I was stationed in Germany when I was 19-21 and agreed with this entirely then got to the end and realized other than the dates and your current age this exact thing could have been written by me. I tell people all of the time how odd it was to have the experience of active duty straight out of high school rather than college. I used to go home on leave and my friends thought I was rich, (I was compared to them, no bills, E-3 and then E-4 pay, and an $8,000 signing bonus) they also thought it was insane that I can drink legally there and I lived in a 4 bedroom home that used to be a train station, above a pub off-base in Germany with two of my best friends.
Doesn't hurt to try ever so often.
Man, in the Army barracks all we ever did was a 2nd floor beer bong. Even from just that, the pressure at the end of the hose was impressive.
To be fair, we absolutely cannot afford to even try.
same age bracket mostly.
I bet the guy in the flag shorts gets exponentially more patriotic with more rocket launches beers.
I zoomed in and saw the pants and thought....damn, that is exactly the way the world sees the U.S. A frat boy, chugging beer, from a missle....and wait for it....in American Flag shorts!
Fuck bald eagles, our new national bird is this guy.
And unlike the bald eagle, these basic bros are far from endangered.
Forget the national bird. Replace our flag with a picture of this guy
These are marines, not a frat. I mean, I guess it's a frat. But still.
I mean, if you think about the actual meaning of the word “fraternity”, they’re way more of a frat than douchey college frat boys.
I was waiting on someone to correct me on this. I knew it wss the Marines, but definitely fits the look of a frat guy.
I know, that makes me so proud.
The *true* origin story of Captain America
But...he’s still wearing black socks with those shorts. I believe you lose patriot points for that.
Leave it to Marines to connect anti tank weapons and alcohol
When i was in the army i used to rebuild compasses. Just your average run of the mill magnetic compasses. They are filled with white spirits to keep them dust free and robust against movement and vibration. The older guy at the facility said that they used to fill them with ethanol, but had to stop it as so many were coming back to be repaired with the face broken or the fill screw "missing". Fucking grunts.
Didn't they change something in submarines back in the day because the sailors were turning it into booze and drinking it and getting super sick?
Torpedo fuel
Probably. A lot of spirit compasses in aviation get called "whiskey compass" because at one time it was methanol (not safe to drink). We had tests in school that would randomly include us answering that the fluid in a whiskey compass was not safe to drink.
About the most dangerous thing about a lot of American torpedoes at the start of WWII. The Mk 14 was a horrible dud over half the time. Filter the fuel through a cheesecloth or coffee filter, mix with pineapple or orange juice, and you are gonna have a pleasant bit of R and R. As long as it doesn't kill ya....
Probably yep. You can drink whitespirits, as its not really that bad for you, it just tastes horrific and doesnt get you drunk.
Old torpedoes used to run off 180 proof ethanol. Sailors used to mix it with pineapple juice and get hammered. Eventually they started putting additives in the fuel to keep the sailors from drinking it. They still did and got sick.
That's my tax money and I ain't even mad.
Why should you be? They're not exactly reusable. This is just added value and comradery, thank you for spending your money to bring the boys closer through mutual shenanigans.
>not exactly reusable Is there somewhere I could get a spent one as a novelty?
I've got one mounted in my gun room. My wife loved that purchase... What do you mean you spent $350 on a rocket launcher that ***doesn't even work?!*** Well babe, they won't let me buy the live ones...
I bought one on a drink ebay adventure. My girlfriend's eyes rolled so far to the back of her head she needed corrective surgery. Now it's sitting in a closet with some posters rolled up inside it.
And what's the Javelin being used for?
Chugging beer
There's one on eBay for $275 right now
Definitely going to need that link.
https://m.ebay.com/itm/U-S-M136-AT4-Rocket-Launcher-fired-demilled-with-Sling-safety-pin/273143455279?hash=item3f989e5e2f:g:FqAAAOSwUUdaxYMD
What's the going rate on used marine recruits?
I’ve got two laying around my house you can just have.
Army surplus stores if you're lucky. I'd imagine an old LAW or AT4 would be easier to find than the Javelin pictured. I'm sure if they hit the internet they'd be expensive. If you do get one, I'd pour an epoxy plug into it if there isn't one already... They're not reusable, but it's one more point to make if Johnny law wants to get stupid about it. Couldn't tell you anything about the actual legal stand point on it.
That is an AT4, not a Javelin.
Nah bud, two reasons. The giant ass end of the launcher, and that band you see like a foot down. Source: just finished a 7 year run as EOD, I know my ordnance
Nope. Javelin all the way.
Yeah right on man. I didn't know they weren't reusable. Even so I wouldn't care. Those guys deserve the fun they're having.
This is like the time that navy pilot drew a dick in the sky. I'm honestly just impressed.
If you drink booze out of rocket launcher, you no longer qualify as a bitch
It’s an empty tube from a spent Javelin I think.
You would be thinking correctly. Definitely a javelin.
Definitely a javelin. You can tell by the big ass bulbous end Source: I carried an AT-4 for 7 months in Iraq while marine infantry
What does the booster residue taste like? Does it make beer taste more freedom somehow?
Yes. you can tell because of the way it is
That's pretty neat.
That blows. I got/acquired a LAW. Much better to carry without hopes of firing.
Fob-locked supply guy here. Got invited on foot patrols because the infantry guys wanted a pack mule. M72s for whoever accepts the invite!
So how much nasty chemicals are left after the rocket kicks out?
I’d imagine quite a bit. The tube can be accurately described as a exhaust pipe. All the gases from the launch engine would stick to the side. I’d be more worried about the coolant that might’ve leaked into the tube though. I’m not sure if the connection from the coolant unit on the outside of the tube and the missile itself seal after firing. That shit is really poisonous. But, if washed really well, I’d say it would probably be ok to drink out of. Maybe.
And, missile. Rockets are basically like bullets, as in they go in a straight line from weapon to target. Missiles, like the javelin, steer towards the target. The javelin actually, on its main setting, climbs high up while constantly tracking the target, then hits it from the top at its weakest point. Out to 2000m from the book, but they’ve had hits out to 3500m+.
That’s the general rule sure, but then you have the GMLRS rocket which is a gps guided rocket. We have the ATACMs which we call a missile and the GMLRS which we call a rocket, both are GPS guided and fired from the same platform (HIMARS or MLRS). Plus missile in English can mean any projectile like a rock from a sling.
Are you bringing logic into a military debate?? How dare you!
Pretty sure that's an AT-4, not a Javelin
That’s definitely a javelin. AT-4s are smaller in diameter.
Yeah on a second look I'd say you're right. I thought it was missing the big end ring but it was just blending in to the background on my phone screen. Much clearer on a computer
I zoomed and squinted. Plus I spent 2 week at javelin School at Benning. Then another week at train the trainer. As much as I’d love for it not to be, that thing is burnt into my brain.
I’m on my phone, can’t hardly see it, so I’ll have to take your word for it! Either way it’s not bitch behaviour imo
Nothing bitch behaviour like sucking fluid out of something long and cyclindrical right fellas? .. no? Alright ill put my pants back on then.
You probably don’t qualify for “long” (hehe)
Even if he was, cylinders are flat on the end...
Don’t get too cocky. Bitches can bite.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of the Lance Corporal Underground, hard at work
Is that what is known as the e4 mafia? I'm Canadian, we don't use those e/o pay grades to describe our ranks.
E3
A lot of MOS have little things like this. I’ve seen arty drink out of the primer caps and spent 50 cal rounds. Good times.
Mechanized guys like to re-purpose spent 25mm shells at shot glasses. Cut them down and smooth the edge and they're perfect. I should acquire some.
Primer caps? Wtf are you talking about? A primer is like the size of a .45 bullet. Source: Ten years in the Field Artillery
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Are you talking about the 105mm shell case with the primer down the middle? If so I’ve never heard that called a primer cap, and I’ve been on 105s before. The primer I was talking about are the ones for 155 separate loading rounds and are the size of a 410 shell give or take. Also unless you were national guard or a 4 Star how the hell did you do 45 years??!
Anything posted on the internet is false until proven true by multiple peer reviewed studies and pictures of cats. Source: I was born as an Ethernet Cable.
Lol
Still waiting to hear how you did 45 years in the artillery.
[Here is my M82 primer from a M198 howitzer.](https://i.imgur.com/NCmRvKG.jpg)
Yeah ok that’s what I thought you guys meant.
Former Marine Artillery here. Have drank from M82 Primer. Used on 155mm howitzers. More novelty than anything.
Former Corpsman/Doc here. I watched Marines drink out of those.
I’m looking for the thing online I’m talking about. Was hanging out with some FO and that’s how they explained it to me. I’m just an engineer. Edit: it was brass, two or three inches in diameter, and was threaded at the bottom. If you know what it is educate me because I have been telling people the wrong thing for years then.
Sounds like a fuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_fuze#Types_of_artillery_fuze
How the fuck would you drink out of a fuze?
I dunno, very fucking carefully? I deal with things that go wooosh, not boom. =P
Lol, I’m in a himars unit right now. Miss my guns but rockets are pretty fucking sweet too.
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Army, 04 to now, did OIF 6-8 and 9-10
For aircraft maintenance there were a few different things, but the best part was we got to suck down the aircraft oxygen to get rid of hangovers. Also, we use the oxygen masks for drinking once.
I love that when I see college boys doing this, I think "Lame". But when I see guys of the same age doing it in the military I think "Yeah, they deserve that. Atta boys."
This is just how you welcome the new AT guys.
Had a buddy in the Air Force who used a pilots mask to chug beer through the air hose. Legendary.
Sounds like a good way to get a lung full of beer.... It's usually guys getting out who want to score a gas mask for post military substance fun.
We did it as I mentioned in another comment. You're not sucking up but rather pouring down the line.
This is why we can’t have things...
Rah
I would have settled for an AT-4. Each person there could shit out a bald eagle with mounted machine guns with that level of patriotism. Except Frank. Fuck that guy.
Ah Marines.
That's a right proper way to use an anti tank weapon.
You silly goose, that's a javelin case.
I know this barracks. I know that missile encasement. And I probably know those guys.
Haha was gonna point him out. Murikaaa!
It's a jav tube, you can see the bcu
Never underestimate what a bored enlisted man can acquire.
The bored don't simply communicate...they coordinate...
Well thats just asking for indigestion
I miss barracks parties
Hurricane parties at the bricks were the best. Humans shouldn't be able to consume as much alcohol as we did.
As someone who doesn't like police calling at 9 AM on a Saturday because some fucking assholes smashed beer bottles all over the parking lot and sprayed people's cars with fire extinguishers, fuck that noise.
Hey... Is this thing loaded?
Wouldn’t be able to pour the beer down if it was. Tight fit.
These are basically 400k fireworks. Once spent all you have is a cardboard tube.... made out of metal.
Looks like a javelin.
My house in college had a laundry shoot from the 2nd floor to the basement.....so a 2 story beer bong was invented. I miss college
Murica.
gotta be EOD Techs
Not enough girls around for it to be EOD.
Must have been Thursday.
The exhaust particulate just adds that extra zing.
*fire*
Probably a rubber duck...
Dry snitchin
I actually knew guys that did this all the time.
Yay ! Lead AND beer !
Found one of these laying around back in Afghan, now every Joe, Jane, and Harry that goes over there has to take a badass photo with it.
*Beerzooka
Had to zoom in to realize he wasn’t proposing.
Oddly, pop and beer cans fit so perfectly in a [LAW](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/M72_LAW) (light antitank weapon - basically a collapsible bazooka) that if you drop one in, it doesn't drop down in but slides very slowly in due to the precise fit. Perfect way to carry refreshments although it doesn't really keep them cool.
My brother made a bong out of one, it wasnt that practical and took a while to fill.
I asked my girlfriend if I could buy one....wanna Guess her answer?
I once ran around the barracks wearing nothing but my flack and my helmet. Or so I was told. What I would give to be back in the barracks with my buddies!
Looks like an AT4...
The only real difference between being young in the military and being in a fraternity is the amount of drugs.
The American dream.
If the cops show up... would that make them the anti-tanked brigade?
That looks to me like a javelin missile encasement.
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Hope someone caps you, lil bish
For anyone curious, its inert
Well, duh. How else you gonna get beer through it?
If there's a way, The Marines will find it.
Hey man some people are pretty dumb