Onasander Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-32264914 Why you intentionally put a thatched roof boathouse along the lane of fire of a flaming shot from a trebuchet I will never know, unless this was intentional. We burnt down a boat house at FOB ISKAN accidentally in 2007. It was on the eastern side of the Euphrates, a few dozen feet from the base wall that was curving almost to reach the river on the southeast corner of our base. Some idiot thought to build a 25 foot firing line for marksmanship practice just north of it. Weeds had been growing all around the boathouse, and given snipers, nobody weedwacked it.... so when a bullet richocheted and went into the weeds, it caught fire. Our CSM was happy, because it was burning the weeds, but then it also burned out boathouse down too, then the flames started leaping up the wall and nearly caught the two story building our A company, Apache, on fire. His bright ideas often worked out like that. Its kinda ironic that buildings designed to be right up on the water torch so easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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