captain bones,
i was thinking about your post , as to why you didnt use bino's with a reticule,
i came to the conclusion that the navy you knew was alittle different in the forties
than the 80's, the reason being that most combat ships, or all combat ships
of the 80's were of the missle type, and guns being long gone by that time, and
with all the different radars on them, nobody would get even close enough to
to adust HE rounds on the ship without getting a missle shoved you know where,
it would be suicide, and missiles cant be adjusted unless you have a radio signal
with it to get inside its cpu and change the coordinates that it was shot out with.
but i want to approach this in another way, u were navy personnel in rl, and i was army personnel
in rl, and so you know as well as i do that every piece of equipment the goverment has is catalogged.
and any goverment agency can requisition anything from that catalog, as long as its within reason,
its all GI stuff, goverment issue. it has to be reasonable requests, i mean , no army infantry company
is going to get away with requesting a B2 bomber, or get anything it cant possibly use, so a company ordering
that would be denied.
but binoculars? thats well within reason, and so pretty likely the request would be granted, so if saying,
that i was in the navy back in 42, and my bro was in the army or usmc, and he showed me
a bino with reticules, and i would say...hey i want that!
if the navy unit i was with didnt have it in inventory, i could put in a request with supply, to get one.
so it isnt to much of a stretch to think that some in the navy, had binos with reticules if it could help them do thier job alittle better.
it like the baleo class subs, coming off the line, they all looked the same, but when given to the commanders and crews,
its been said that no two baleo class subs looked the same.
in tangs case, okane wanted a crows nest on the periscope shears and got together with some members of the crew
and the maintainence shops on shore, and he got one build for tang, and i guess lockwood and nimitze
saw it and , never said anything close to "take it down",
what im really trying to say i guesss is that every unit will modify something to fit thier needs.
peace brother, and thank you for serving the country, your an outstanding american!
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