What a great surprise on St Barbara's Day. In 1968 I was given the job of bringing the ten M109s that were being delivered to the school of artillery in Shilo into service and then running courses for Charlie Charlie Everybody from TQ3s and OCdts up to senior officers. We (me as a new Captain IG, a MWO (MrGnr), four sergeants and a bombardier driver per gun) had the short barrelled version with the cab mounted rammer. We worked our butts off and had a ball!
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