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Post by Snorelacks on Aug 3, 2019 2:40:35 GMT
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Post by El Materdor43 on Aug 3, 2019 3:43:04 GMT
Great pics Snore. Looks like a very interesting place
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Post by Snorelacks on Aug 3, 2019 14:04:03 GMT
Great pics Snore. Looks like a very interesting place It was more interesting than I thought it's be and there were many outside displays and some inside displays I just ignored due to time constraints (I wanted to get home and still had 2 hours to drive). It's actually a neat facility...airfield, live fire tank ranges, cold weather survival training, etc. It's a large 56,000acre base so there is room for all that.
Two things I find awesome....there are rail tracks going into the base so they can bring in and send out M1s on rail cars when they mobilize or come in for gunnery practice, and the base is home to a massive deer population and they open it every Fall for two 2-day deer hunts people try to get drawn for...some massive deer have come out of that base.
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Post by test777777 on Aug 5, 2019 9:27:41 GMT
Thanks Snore - pics are great in my opinion, thanks for sharing. Were the artifacts generic representations or did each one have a specific story behind how it was acquired and came to be on display?
I noticed on one of the AK variants, with a folding stock, and brown plastic(that's what it looks like to me) shown in the Persion gulf war cabinet, the inserted magazine looks like it's bound together with Red and green PVC electrical tape. I was wondering what that was all about? Is it some dodgy repair work or is it more likely in your opinion someone's representation of the Kuwait flag(pinned to the back of the display) or Iraq flag(similar colour scheme) and someone forgot the white? I wonder why the SVD(at least I think that's what it is) in that same cabinet doesn't have a magazine inserted or scoped either.
You may or may not know the answer. My curiosity working overtime tis all.
Thanks again so much for the images, always appreciated.
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Post by Snorelacks on Aug 5, 2019 13:12:14 GMT
Thanks Snore - pics are great in my opinion, thanks for sharing. Were the artifacts generic representations or did each one have a specific story behind how it was acquired and came to be on display? I noticed on one of the AK variants, with a folding stock, and brown plastic(that's what it looks like to me) shown in the Persion gulf war cabinet, the inserted magazine looks like it's bound together with Red and green PVC electrical tape. I was wondering what that was all about? Is it some dodgy repair work or is it more likely in your opinion someone's representation of the Kuwait flag(pinned to the back of the display) or Iraq flag(similar colour scheme) and someone forgot the white? I wonder why the SVD(at least I think that's what it is) in that same cabinet doesn't have a magazine inserted or scoped either. You may or may not know the answer. My curiosity working overtime tis all. Thanks again so much for the images, always appreciated. Test...all of the weapons had a storyboard with the weapon name, caliber, country of origin, etc. Some of them did have stories about a weapon's specific history and how it got to the museum. The AK-47 you speak about was actually captured and unaltered as far as I know. The flag was actually an Iraqi flag that was taken down/captured in Kuwait as the USMC pushed the Iraqis back into Iraq.
I do plan on going back to take my time, as there were some very historic firearms and really nice displays that deserve more careful attention.
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Post by test777777 on Aug 19, 2019 9:59:07 GMT
Thanks Snore - pics are great in my opinion, thanks for sharing. Were the artifacts generic representations or did each one have a specific story behind how it was acquired and came to be on display? I noticed on one of the AK variants, with a folding stock, and brown plastic(that's what it looks like to me) shown in the Persion gulf war cabinet, the inserted magazine looks like it's bound together with Red and green PVC electrical tape. I was wondering what that was all about? Is it some dodgy repair work or is it more likely in your opinion someone's representation of the Kuwait flag(pinned to the back of the display) or Iraq flag(similar colour scheme) and someone forgot the white? I wonder why the SVD(at least I think that's what it is) in that same cabinet doesn't have a magazine inserted or scoped either. You may or may not know the answer. My curiosity working overtime tis all. Thanks again so much for the images, always appreciated. Test...all of the weapons had a storyboard with the weapon name, caliber, country of origin, etc. Some of them did have stories about a weapon's specific history and how it got to the museum. The AK-47 you speak about was actually captured and unaltered as far as I know.
Sorry Snore, I missed this reply. Glad to hear there are storyboards. The storyboard makes the experience so much richer, it adds meaning and value to the artifacts and great to hear the Museum has retained those details.
The flag was actually an Iraqi flag that was taken down/captured in Kuwait as the USMC pushed the Iraqis back into Iraq.
I'm not an expert on the Flags and am using Wikipedia as a reference. It's all I have to go on, not ever having seen on in real life but Wikipedia shows it to be the Kuwait Flag. Wikipedia is not the be all of reliable but this sort of stuff, they typically get right
The flag is the same as listed under Flag of Kuwait in Wikipedia and hanged properly with the red bar on the left( credit to whomever hanged it, easy to get wrong)
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I do plan on going back to take my time, as there were some very historic firearms and really nice displays that deserve more careful attention.
I can get lost for hours in places like that much to my wife's disdain, she's bored in about 2 minutes. I get bored shoe, handbag, cosmetics and clothes shopping. Horses for courses as they say!
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