Pop quiz

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:39 pm

Let me think:
Another Very Large Bridge?
A Voluptuous Lipped Broad?
A Very Loaded Boat?
All Virtuous Lead Bearers?
Any Voluntary Legal Barriers?
hmmmmmm... AVLB AVLB?

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:45 pm

Anybody whose username is Cav Dog knows damned well what it stands for, and I have heard those.I

Ok, Cav Dog, what's a LVCT, an instrument in the battalion/squadron maintenance platoon?

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:48 pm

LOL kind of a softball for those of us that have been there and done that.

I didn't want to jump on it right off the bat.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:54 pm

I know. Just having fun several of us here. A Very Large Bridge is the common one.

Surely you have quiz questions to challenge us.

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:47 am

Ok, Cav Dog, what's a LVCT, an instrument in the battalion/squadron maintenance platoon?[/quote]

A fancy military acronym for a multimeter.

We used to use the ones from advance auto parts to try and figure why the 2.75" FFARs wouldn't go whoosh.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:21 am

You are kee-rekt! Low Voltage Circuit Tester, or, as we referred to it in the BMO course, Little Very Complicated Thing. It was the size of a television and on rollers.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:43 am

Still looking for the solution to the CSC commander's difficulty...

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 3:19 am

I thought LVCT was some kind of amphibious tractor!

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 4:08 am

That is LVTC - Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Command). Letter order is very important!

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:51 pm

Great stuff guys. Thank you Ben for the info. CavDog, Redleg, PG require tough questions. Guys like me donâ€™t stand a chance.

What does LCAC stand for? Humorous first?

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:55 pm

Little Crawly Amphibious Creatures

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:01 am

The question the BMO asked the company commander is... "Has the crew released the track tension?". The company commander then asked the crew. A loud, disgusted, " S**T" exploded near the bridge. A little work with the Little Joe wrench retracted the compensating idler, permitting the fitting of the center guide and end connectors, and the track the was joined.

Next question... Your platoon of five tanks is moving forward cross-country unopposed using successive bounds. Explain movement by successive bounds.

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:27 am

That's what happens when your new 2nd Lieutenant doesn't jump up and down on the tank to test the shocks before you roll out of the motor pool!

I'll skip the bounding question to see if someone else knows it - here is an artillery question:

In a howitzer battery there is a dude that the artillerymen call "Smoke". What is his real position title?

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:42 am

The "Chief of Smoke" is Chief of the Firing Battery.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:12 am

A soldier lies in the field, several comrades dead around him. From the bone sticking through his blood-soaked khaki trousers, he knows he's not going to get up and go anywhere. The fighting has been ferocious, evidenced by the Queen's Colors half covered by the body of his friend. The fighting is still going on, but has moved away some distance and he can expect no assistance from his unit. To make matters worse, there is a group of Burkha -wearing women fast approaching. The situation is desperate, and in extremis, he recalls a passage of an article he read about what to do in just such a circumstance.

The passage is by a well-known correspondent of the time. According to that passage, what should he do?