Glory Days;685401 wrote:haha i also slept through several rocket attacks with the Phalanx gun going off about a 100 yards from my trailer and i never heard a thing. but being a tanker, i was able to sleep with tank rounds going off at about the same distance. although when i was awake and heard the Phalanx, it made my toes curl and every bone in my body tingle from the noise.

Out of all the mortar attacks we took when I was on base, I was only in my pod once for the many attacks we took. I was awake though and the "c-ram" cannons were pretty loud from what I remember (this was 2007). I remember the mortars just sounding like bottle rockets flying through the air and then loud booms. The cannons were a lot louder though, as you know.

One of the more haunting sounds is the incoming of a RPG that slow whop whop type sound.
I was out with the 25th Div Mech. unit and they got hit with mortars and RPGS in a night log site firer fight.
Kid from Hawaii was firing a 50 cal on top of an APC and a RGP landed in his lap…. the best we could figure was it hit the ground and bounced up. He was frozen … I lifted the RPG off him.
We would dig hole and build sand bag around the hole for a shitter, I slowly lowered the RPG into the shitter lowered some C-4 with a cap …. covered it with the sand bag and blow it.
Every time after that the sound of an RPG was magnified to me.

I know this is not real but it feels real… I can hear a chop miles a way and sometimes when it get close I can almost feel the sound. Almost like when you jump from one or getting in one that compression of the blades.

I Wear Pants;685405 wrote:Weird, just from seeing videos of it you wouldn't think the Phalanx is that loud. At least as far as really huge ass guns go.

its not really loud per se, its the noise it makes. basically like a zipper and kinda has the nails on a chalkboard effect.

dwccrew;685565 wrote:Out of all the mortar attacks we took when I was on base, I was only in my pod once for the many attacks we took. I was awake though and the "c-ram" cannons were pretty loud from what I remember (this was 2007). I remember the mortars just sounding like bottle rockets flying through the air and then loud booms. The cannons were a lot louder though, as you know.

yeah, for the ones when i was a awake i didnt even do anything. the sirens would go off and i just kept business as usual. even the mortar that landed about 30 yards away, i just kinda flinched and kept walking. although there was the one time near the end of our tour i dove under a humvee as a joke when the siren went off.

Glory Days;686853 wrote:yeah, for the ones when i was a awake i didnt even do anything. the sirens would go off and i just kept business as usual. even the mortar that landed about 30 yards away, i just kinda flinched and kept walking. although there was the one time near the end of our tour i dove under a humvee as a joke when the siren went off.

I don't think I remember one person ever diving or really taking cover except when I was out-processing and we were attacked and at our staging area we saw mortars landing. We hauled ass to the nearest bunker. It was kind of comical the way we all ran. I swear I ran a 4.2 40. We were all laughing in the bunker about it. Like you said about diving behind the humvee as a joke; you kind of get numb to the shit going on and it doesn't effect you the same way a person that wasn't exposed to that environment for a prolonged period of time.