American Rifleman has one of their cover topics "25 years of service U. S. M9 Beretta". I can remember when I was in a high speed unit and we got the Berettas. On deployments, other soldiers were interested in them and would ask "is that the new Beretta? Can I see it? What do you think of them?". Now here they are 25 years of service.

I can think of a number of items like that, but this cover article really hit me.

I'm a dinosaur.

Awwful feeling. I'm having it now, too, as a matter of fact.
Just got back into flying after being away for twelve years. Things have changed. The avionics on this airplane I'm flying are giving me headaches. The planes I was flying were so simple. I'm trying to learn this Garmin G1000 system which is supposed to make life easier for the pilot, but like you, I'm feeling like a dinosaur! Told my wife, just last night that I'm not all that sure I should have gone back to it!
I;m thinking taht I'll just stick to flight simulators.

You gotta be messin' with me!?!?!?

That's it. I'm Methuselah. Just the other day I was telling the wife and kids a "No sh*t, there I was!" story and I mentioned a radio we used to use. One of them asked a question about the radio, so I figured I'd just pull up a picture on the Internet, assuming that said radio was still the height of forward-thinking technology.

Well, what I found was a condescending, almost chuckling article, written by some whippersnapper who took a tone that clearly said, "Can you believe they actually used to USE crap like this back in the old days?" It was written like someone was describing a Revolutionary War musket in the light of modern arms. All my stuff is in museums!

Well, thanks, OG. Now my rheumatism is actin' up! And I think I might have a touch of gout, my big toe is hurtin'! Or maybe the weather is gonna change! I'm going to watch Sanford and Son or listen to Grand Funk Railroad...

Cheers!

Rick...

Not the AN/PRC-77 by any chance? I've actually used that radio, and that was in the Army in 2005..hooray for new equipment

I was going through some stuff the other day and pulled out my Army driving record.

I'm qualified to drive the Jeep and the Gamma Goat.

So add my roar to the dinosaur din.

25 years? Jeez. I'm old and getting older by the minute.

Didn't I hear that the Army was looking for a replacement to the M9? Can't remember where I saw that. I have CRS disorder.

Nope, not that one. I ain't tellin' ya which one, you'll laugh! It was assigned to the scrap heap long before 2005.

But if you just have to quantify this, I remember being transported by C-117D's with five digit bureau numbers quite often. Now go ahead, yuk it up!

Cheers!

Rick...

We're talking the norwegian army here, Sauron. They're generallty 20-700 years behind current trends in equipment.

Too true!



What, one of those newfangled piston engined things? Bah! I laugh at your so-called "combustion engines". Give me a horse-drawn cart any day!

Are we talking about the WWII era Jeep?