Your Best Shot

CarnageINC, on Jul 30 2014 - 21:55, said:   OMG!  LOL!  DUDE I DID THE SAME THING!  I was the gunner at the time and I thought my finger flipped from Main to Coax.  My loader had a brain fart too and didn't safe the gun of course.  When I fired the HEAT round at the troops I yelled "SH11111TTTTT" for like 6 seconds.  I thought for sure we were disqualified for that action, that would of been my first one.  I was so dejected, so angry at myself and my loader.   It so happens that we had a perfect run during the day and it was carrying over to the night.  The BN Colonel was in the tower and was so impressed with us that we killed 2 of the 4 troop targets on that engagement with a HEAT round.  We also managed to recover our composure and continued on in our perfect run for the rest of our night TT VIII.  The Colonel over rid the DQ gave us a cigar and had a good laugh and we got a perfect score and top gun!  Needless to say I was never able to live that mistake down in my company for my duration there.  Before every TT VIII they showed that recording to the company on 'what not to do' razzing....those buggers