Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle

yeah that was one of the the big things i was looking for like i didn't do a brain scan beforehand so you know with the documentary a lot of those guys they they did a full study so brain scan before and after i was going to get one done independently but i i fucked around and didn't do it so we're just gonna have to yeah imagine but uh but i definitely had you know some tbi i got blown up three times in iraq i've hit my three yeah just three yeah I've hit my head really hard on some airborne operations And then Whatever 20 years of Shooting and explosions Goose dogs I mean fuck even a 50 cal

Oh dude yeah I mean I think back to all the fucked up shit That we did to ourselves And did to our new guys Like, we'd do these new guy super challenges to see how many dudes could shoot the most fucking Carl G's in a fucking day.

Seriously? Yeah.

No wonder you're a

fun until they're not.

I'm not

saying they're shooting, like, 30 fucking Carl G's.

But, dude, you shoot, like, 10 of those motherfuckers in a day.

There is a lot of it.

And it's interesting for me because I've seen it both from the provider aspect and, you know, in myself, you know, shooting Carl G's all day and you end up having this massive headache and puking afterwards and seeing double vision and all that kind of stuff being exposed to blast.

It was

cool, right?

I've got a hilarious story about some Force Recon guys, I'll tell you, but go ahead.

Keep talking about that.

So, I mean, I had multiples of these things even before combat, and then you go to combat and all the Carl G's and all the explosions, you know, we had mass casualty incidents and we had all these different things that I'm dealing with.

Talk about

And so I used my background as an expert in weapons, thanks to the Canadian Armed Forces and my 20 years of being in the regiment that was affected, and my time that I spent in Wainwright, which was a great deal, to try and explain how safety is conducted for the types of weapons people were talking about being involved.

Overnight, three soldiers who when I queried them, they, they were very legitimate, um, that were from that unit that was on that range came to me independently and unsolicited, um, with, The story that I used as the update in the morning talking about a malfunctioning round on the Carl Gustav anti-tank weapon range that set off an explosion that began that massive fire that was then enhanced with gusting winds that went on to other parts of the training area doing damage as it went.

Let me ask you about the Carl Gustav because, yeah, when you mentioned that, that kind of stopped me.

I'm sure a lot of people listening even have probably looked it up.

For those who haven't, who might be driving in their car right now, can you describe what kind of weapon, what kind of system the Carl Gustav is that they may have been using?

Yeah, sure.

So we got that weapon system more than four decades ago.

So the potential is there.

This is why other officers were saying we should add an entirely new squad into the platoon on top of Weapon Squad.

This is why they added the M3A1 Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle to Weapon Squad.

That 84-millimeter Goose is the most powerful weapon system in a rifle platoon.

It fires a rocket at about 1,000 meters day or night.

Its digital fire control system can immediately calculate the speed of a moving enemy vehicle and show you, the gunner, where to aim to hit that vehicle while it's moving, and if given high explosive airburst, so the rounds blow up over trenches, and they can kill enemy that are hiding inside of trenches.