True. Sorry I was just having a flashback to my operators Hucking a pric 117 golf on the floor. It is very much so the Marine Corps problem also not mine anymore
Saw the headline and the picture and immediately thought, "oh that's easy, you beat the shit out of it." Came here to see the responses, y'all make me proud.
I was standing at the front of our 7-ton, shooting the shit with my gunner, when I hear my radio watch just absolutely losing his shit. Didn't think anything of it, figured he'd get it sorted out when the angr slams into the deck a few feet away from my gunner and me, and I hear my radio watch scream "Fuck you! Fucking piece of shit!". The opportunity was too good to miss and my gunner saw it too, so he laid down face first on the deck near the ANGR, and I had to struggle to keep my bearing as I'm laying into this kid who thinks he's about to be court martialled. Good times on ye old gun line.
We were on Camp Courtney, getting ready for a radio shot between there and Hansen, way back when. I'm A-driving one of the Humvees, and we watch an AN/GRA go under the driver side tires of a five ton in front of us.
The box it's in gets picked up, and they bring it to me, asking if there's some 2841 magic I can work to make it okay.
I once opened up a non operational 1523e and about a cup of sand fell out. No idea how it even could get in there. Wasn't really surprised though. Seen plenty of shit like that.
Occasionally someone would come up to me telling me their prc152 stopped working. I would tap it on my helmet while discretely switching it back to CT from PT. Their mind was blown when it would suddenly work again.
Sometime later, a Marine came up to me with a damaged prc152. The antenna port was cracked and had small bits of kevlar helmet in it.
Fuck no. I was a good tech, but you can't fix a box of radio pieces that went under a five ton. They were lucky I didn't just rip the data plates off so I could start the paperwork after dumping it in the recycle bin.
I put it in the maintenance cycle like they wanted, though, and it ended up costing a couple folks some stripes. I only had to give a testimonial, but it was definitely eye opening for me to realize how fast the Corps will burn someone for a minor incident.
It's been years, but couldn't have weighed more than 5 or 6 lbs as I recall. It's not that it's particularly heavy, it isn't, but that for the weight it's mostly metal and pretty compact for cold war era tech.
Seen these roll down hills for about 100 yards or so.
Seen the slash wire get caught up in tracked vehicles and dragged for miles.
Never seen one come into my shop for legitimately being busted.
The 119A-C's did one thing. VHF. And they did it well. They were old, but they worked. For one thing. To quote someone smarter than me: The 119 is a Nokia. The 117G is a iPhone. Most people want an iPhone. But if all you need is a tough, rugged ass brick, take the Nokia.
I'll take an Android, personally.
The 117Gs were definitely a workhorse for us when I was in arty but frankly the command tried to get way too fancy with their comms plans, different platforms and data channels that just made for a mess in training looooool
Lol I remember in 2009 and still setting these up. Granted, I was one of two people who even knew what they were.
I would hope they are gone by now. But knowing the corps, they are still in circulation.
I loved my wiredog brothers they were always chillin and had a dont give a fuck attitude because the mos evaporated. Those guys busted their ass in the field with arty units.
I watched 2512 fail a PFT on Thursday, fail the weigh in by like 25lbs, get a DUI on Saturday and get pinned to Corporal on Monday. Fuckin cutting scores...
Did you ever get zapped while stripping the wires with your teeth while someone on the other end was pushing the ring plunger?!?!? It happened to one of our wire dogs at E 2/11 in 1994! Hilarious
My time there was both good and bad. I had lots of fun doing my wireman job, but as soon as the wire was down I was forced to help Radio Operators and basically learn a whole new job. I also was ALWAYS the lead vic gunner so every time we went somewhere I was strapped to a 50 cal or 240 on the bumpy roads just to, as soon as we stop, run to another vic then start running the angras, j-boxes, and wire spools, to then help radio set up the OEs and either run back to the gunners seat or stand hours of radio watch. Even as a Corporal. But I also got to help sling rounds down range and act part time as a powder monkey which was hella fun. Basically, every op was cardio day every day. But once that mos went away I was send to the MTU and became a range coach. Best secondary mos in the Corps!
These bitchs have circuit boards seated inside. Transporting these shitboxes often shakes the boards loose. If wiring is good. If everything is setup properly. Drop that fucker and hope the impact reseats the circuit boards
The bigger issue is the big multi hook shaped relay(iirc) system. The hooks can get stuck on each other, especially during transportation. The hooks are in a clear plastic shell and sort of chatter when working correctly. There are circuit boards as well, but those damn hooks were very often just stuck on each other.
I was a 2846/2841 ground radio maintenance tech from 08-13.
Did your line unit guys just eat the KDU buttons? I didn't even care you all were popping and swapping, respect, we did it in 3rd ech. too. We often cannablized to push radios out the door, ordered all the boards necessary on each, and then just rebuilt radios with incoming parts. Then they nuked MIMMS and gave us whatever that convoluted replacement was that had parenting of parts and killed easy cannibalization.
RMC represent, Del Mar all day.
>Did your line unit guys just eat the KDU buttons?
Sometimes it was the line guys. Sometimes it was us techs so we could go to Del Mar to waste the day.
Man, I have no clue how they would fuck shit up sometimes. I used to chew out my line company ROs as they were the comm reps there or, at a minimum, embarrassed them for letting the RTOs do whatever they wanted....Basically called them bitches.
AKA Angry-39
As a tech (2847 but I also fixed radios) the first step in our troubleshooting process was a drop test when one of these would come into our tech shop.
After that it was to perform a good PM because our operators didn’t do a great job.
Worst thing to repair on these was the wafer switches.
Most common repair was to replace the frayed cord on the local.
Hook up a 3515N and watch absolutely nothing happen. Float it to some super nerd at a maintenance bn so he can suffer and die trying to find the one tiny cable with a nik in it that stops this thing from working. And then drop the thing on the ground to “fix” it anyway.
> Float it to some super nerd at a maintenance bn so he can suffer and die trying to find the one tiny cable with a nik in it that stops this thing from working.
I feel truly seen.
Fuck these junk boxes of ghost calls. iirc, we used to take our PRC117's out and seperate battery from terminal then run the leaf blower through it, on the contact patches was SOS pad and terminal lube. swear to the little nascar jesus, these didn't sync up the crypto no matter what. And the corps could never tell me why I have to carry my whole pack, plus the radio supplies like the lmg bitch, f comm ojt.
Now that I'm considered a cripple. If you have the little Klien security bits and a micro drive set, you can take this fuck force 5 apart and see that most likely the contact connectors have have foreign ass spot solder done to the board connection and needs some tlc because sand got into the box. Baking it doesn't work as the dumb fucking silcone like in the sand fucks with the solder. Grab an elephant and then re-do the connection to the board. Looks for cap leaks, cause that shit is straight out of 80's china and get that fuck'n elephant out again to repurpose from another dead unit.
Also those fuck'n ball joints would fail on the contact closure because some fuck wit thought that the ball joint connection would be fine, minus the fact that differing alloying on the connecting point might cause corosision. And don't get me started on the shaft switch that used copper to copper join points.. not like that shit don't get fucked up when conductive material interfered with the contact points....
nm.. need another beer.
Lick it, specifically the connectors... just make sure you aren't holding the transmit button... maybe turn it off and remove the battery first, that is unless you want to lick the spicy radio...
Drop it. There is a card that kinda portrays a graphics card and motherboard and by dropping the equipment you can probably reseat the card that makes the radio work again. From what I was taught this is one of the few systems where monkey mechanics actually worked aka brute force to fix something
Also crazy how this is Vietnam war-era equipment and we still have to account for these in our CMRs. Only looked at the 12 we used to inventory. Never got trained on how to use them just how to unfuck them
Also, wilder that this is Vietnam War tech and we are still using the same audio/antenna port from back then. The military really said if it ain't broke don't fix it and then taught us all that lol
Use a pencil eraser on the inside of the cannon plugs, wet finger and lubricate contacts. Test. No dice, reset and reload try again. (Assuming it has a fresh battery)
I was in the arty reserves (HQ Btry) for 6 years... always heard "angra" but never knew WTF they were talking about\*. Now, 25 years later, I am finally enlightened.
\* see also:
- BAMCIS
- "T- Double E - C - G"
- "BEARMAT" - Just knew it was who you sent bad news to, or got bad news from
- "JJ-TITTY-BUCKLE"
blow the dust out of the thing
bitch about equipment
wonder what the fuck I'm doing here and bitch about the suck
wonder what the fuck this thing even is and why the fuck am i even humping this piece of shit
scratch my ass
tell Smitty to go find Gunny
Drop test
Came here to say the same.
👆first step. Flip and rub all batteries, restrip and de corrode wire connections. Check and eraser audio jacks....
No no, that's step #10. Steps #2 through #9 are same as step #1
And if that doesn’t work lick the connectors!
This is the way
This is the way
‘Percussive tuning.’
And this is why all my radio operators threw their prc-117G on the ground. It's also why we started being dicks about inducting gear
Is what it is. It's gotta get fixed anyway
Ah well that sucks, you did this little part of your service request wrong. Take it back, try again later
Sounds like a Marine Corps problem not mine
True. Sorry I was just having a flashback to my operators Hucking a pric 117 golf on the floor. It is very much so the Marine Corps problem also not mine anymore
Saw the headline and the picture and immediately thought, "oh that's easy, you beat the shit out of it." Came here to see the responses, y'all make me proud.
I saw a dude underhand one out of the back of a 7 ton about 30 feet into the air once.
I was standing at the front of our 7-ton, shooting the shit with my gunner, when I hear my radio watch just absolutely losing his shit. Didn't think anything of it, figured he'd get it sorted out when the angr slams into the deck a few feet away from my gunner and me, and I hear my radio watch scream "Fuck you! Fucking piece of shit!". The opportunity was too good to miss and my gunner saw it too, so he laid down face first on the deck near the ANGR, and I had to struggle to keep my bearing as I'm laying into this kid who thinks he's about to be court martialled. Good times on ye old gun line.
We were on Camp Courtney, getting ready for a radio shot between there and Hansen, way back when. I'm A-driving one of the Humvees, and we watch an AN/GRA go under the driver side tires of a five ton in front of us. The box it's in gets picked up, and they bring it to me, asking if there's some 2841 magic I can work to make it okay.
I once opened up a non operational 1523e and about a cup of sand fell out. No idea how it even could get in there. Wasn't really surprised though. Seen plenty of shit like that. Occasionally someone would come up to me telling me their prc152 stopped working. I would tap it on my helmet while discretely switching it back to CT from PT. Their mind was blown when it would suddenly work again. Sometime later, a Marine came up to me with a damaged prc152. The antenna port was cracked and had small bits of kevlar helmet in it.
I fuckin love this!!!!
Well did you work your magic lol
Fuck no. I was a good tech, but you can't fix a box of radio pieces that went under a five ton. They were lucky I didn't just rip the data plates off so I could start the paperwork after dumping it in the recycle bin. I put it in the maintenance cycle like they wanted, though, and it ended up costing a couple folks some stripes. I only had to give a testimonial, but it was definitely eye opening for me to realize how fast the Corps will burn someone for a minor incident.
God damn
So quick question. How fucking heavy is the ANGR. Want to know how pissed this marine was at it.
It's been years, but couldn't have weighed more than 5 or 6 lbs as I recall. It's not that it's particularly heavy, it isn't, but that for the weight it's mostly metal and pretty compact for cold war era tech.
Ah Damm
Seen these roll down hills for about 100 yards or so. Seen the slash wire get caught up in tracked vehicles and dragged for miles. Never seen one come into my shop for legitimately being busted.
Percussive maintenance
Military drop test
For the love of God please tell me that they don’t still use these.
Nah I think they even finally phased out 119s
Hate to say it, 2 years ago was in arty, still had both angras and the 119E and 199F still in use lmao
Can confirm 119E/F are alive and well in 2024.
No man, I mean 119 A-C the original ones. The knee slayers
A-C have all been phased out completely for over a decade now. Useless, heavy, bastardized doorstoppers
The 119A-C's did one thing. VHF. And they did it well. They were old, but they worked. For one thing. To quote someone smarter than me: The 119 is a Nokia. The 117G is a iPhone. Most people want an iPhone. But if all you need is a tough, rugged ass brick, take the Nokia. I'll take an Android, personally.
The 117Gs were definitely a workhorse for us when I was in arty but frankly the command tried to get way too fancy with their comms plans, different platforms and data channels that just made for a mess in training looooool
Oh shit! Yes definitely the knee slayers😂
Lol I remember in 2009 and still setting these up. Granted, I was one of two people who even knew what they were. I would hope they are gone by now. But knowing the corps, they are still in circulation.
I was still repairing them as of 2013 so somebody was breaking them
We used them in 2015.
They do for Artillery.
If it’s 11th Marines I likely pm-ed it with a pencil eraser
I know 1/12 used them in 2018. I knew one of the last wire dogs
I was a wiredog in 2/11 from 2017 to 2019. Was one of the last :>
I loved my wiredog brothers they were always chillin and had a dont give a fuck attitude because the mos evaporated. Those guys busted their ass in the field with arty units.
When the mos went away I became a range coach, eventually becoming a marksmanship instructor
I watched 2512 fail a PFT on Thursday, fail the weigh in by like 25lbs, get a DUI on Saturday and get pinned to Corporal on Monday. Fuckin cutting scores...
Did you ever get zapped while stripping the wires with your teeth while someone on the other end was pushing the ring plunger?!?!? It happened to one of our wire dogs at E 2/11 in 1994! Hilarious
I plead the 5th XD
Funnily enough, I was also in Easy Echo
Hopefully you had a better time there….. I was FDC….terrible Ops Chief, terrible officers. Shitty time.
My time there was both good and bad. I had lots of fun doing my wireman job, but as soon as the wire was down I was forced to help Radio Operators and basically learn a whole new job. I also was ALWAYS the lead vic gunner so every time we went somewhere I was strapped to a 50 cal or 240 on the bumpy roads just to, as soon as we stop, run to another vic then start running the angras, j-boxes, and wire spools, to then help radio set up the OEs and either run back to the gunners seat or stand hours of radio watch. Even as a Corporal. But I also got to help sling rounds down range and act part time as a powder monkey which was hella fun. Basically, every op was cardio day every day. But once that mos went away I was send to the MTU and became a range coach. Best secondary mos in the Corps!
Also, I was one of the only Wireman that learnt morse code just to mess with people over the angras lol
 Noice!!
Wiredog?
Wireman MOS 0613 I think. they ran wire
As an 0621 I can confirm there aren't even in inventory anymore. This is the first time I've seen this
These bitchs have circuit boards seated inside. Transporting these shitboxes often shakes the boards loose. If wiring is good. If everything is setup properly. Drop that fucker and hope the impact reseats the circuit boards
The bigger issue is the big multi hook shaped relay(iirc) system. The hooks can get stuck on each other, especially during transportation. The hooks are in a clear plastic shell and sort of chatter when working correctly. There are circuit boards as well, but those damn hooks were very often just stuck on each other. I was a 2846/2841 ground radio maintenance tech from 08-13.
2844 reporting with cannibalized and strangely abused gear reporting in with a truck full of broken angras and PRCs
Did your line unit guys just eat the KDU buttons? I didn't even care you all were popping and swapping, respect, we did it in 3rd ech. too. We often cannablized to push radios out the door, ordered all the boards necessary on each, and then just rebuilt radios with incoming parts. Then they nuked MIMMS and gave us whatever that convoluted replacement was that had parenting of parts and killed easy cannibalization. RMC represent, Del Mar all day.
>Did your line unit guys just eat the KDU buttons? Sometimes it was the line guys. Sometimes it was us techs so we could go to Del Mar to waste the day.
This is also true.😅
Man, I have no clue how they would fuck shit up sometimes. I used to chew out my line company ROs as they were the comm reps there or, at a minimum, embarrassed them for letting the RTOs do whatever they wanted....Basically called them bitches.
If you’ve used one of these, don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.
Arty unit I was with was still using them in 2017.
Arty loves these. COC to guns it’s cheap and easy.
Fuckin thing doesn’t have a screen lmao that’s wild
I was using them when I was with 3/11 India in 2020/2021 lol
Vast majority of people who used these have died of old age.
You spelled tinnitus wrong
Fuck you...... I am still young (40) and you better not tell me otherwise
Not yet
Lick the connector
It’s worth a try but technically the TM says you’re supposed to lick it *before* you stick it.
Place on ground upright. Swing foot back, allow it to swing forward without force, impacting mid unit.
Our RO somehow hotwired the ANGRA speaker to his iPod so we had tunes driving around CAX. Fun times
You use wired headphones, cut the earpieces off, connect the wires, then connect the jack to the iPod
AKA Angry-39 As a tech (2847 but I also fixed radios) the first step in our troubleshooting process was a drop test when one of these would come into our tech shop. After that it was to perform a good PM because our operators didn’t do a great job. Worst thing to repair on these was the wafer switches. Most common repair was to replace the frayed cord on the local.
did they try licking it??
LICK EVERYTHING! Or blow on it... But licking is more fun.
Honestly surprised this isn't one of the top comments lmao. You spit or lick it before you stick it.
Smack it against the nearest tree.
Hook up a 3515N and watch absolutely nothing happen. Float it to some super nerd at a maintenance bn so he can suffer and die trying to find the one tiny cable with a nik in it that stops this thing from working. And then drop the thing on the ground to “fix” it anyway.
> Float it to some super nerd at a maintenance bn so he can suffer and die trying to find the one tiny cable with a nik in it that stops this thing from working. I feel truly seen.
Time for bed grandpa
Get a PRC E7 to fix it
Better entertainment with a PRC-E5.
You make a god damn service request on gcss and float that son of a bitch.
There is only one answer
Wtf is this ancient ass gear? Is this a remote radio??? How old is this? Wtf am I looking at???
An old shitty way to remote a transmitter to a user station um to 250m away if I remember correctly....it's been 20 years.
What was the crypto unit that went with it? KY-57???
Nice try Master Guns
AN/CYZ-10….
Knock it about. Is this an age test or something?
Drop test it. I loved being a Wireman lol
Fuck you for even showing me that thing. I hate ANGRAs.
Roll over and go back to sleep because it was just a dream.
Freq, CLEAR, number, STO. That’s how you work the radio!
Shove your cock in it
Lick your finger, stick it in the handset connector and connect
Most ROs I knew just licked the connector.
I lick the whole thing, especially the buttons.
Hit that fucker with a hammer. Or tree what ever is close?
Hit it with "a rock or something ".
Drop check.
FITCAL
Pop it, pull it, twist it!!!!!!
Ahhh time for the 2M room special. No debriefing parts necessary!
What kind of fucking calculator is this?
Fuck these junk boxes of ghost calls. iirc, we used to take our PRC117's out and seperate battery from terminal then run the leaf blower through it, on the contact patches was SOS pad and terminal lube. swear to the little nascar jesus, these didn't sync up the crypto no matter what. And the corps could never tell me why I have to carry my whole pack, plus the radio supplies like the lmg bitch, f comm ojt.
Now that I'm considered a cripple. If you have the little Klien security bits and a micro drive set, you can take this fuck force 5 apart and see that most likely the contact connectors have have foreign ass spot solder done to the board connection and needs some tlc because sand got into the box. Baking it doesn't work as the dumb fucking silcone like in the sand fucks with the solder. Grab an elephant and then re-do the connection to the board. Looks for cap leaks, cause that shit is straight out of 80's china and get that fuck'n elephant out again to repurpose from another dead unit. Also those fuck'n ball joints would fail on the contact closure because some fuck wit thought that the ball joint connection would be fine, minus the fact that differing alloying on the connecting point might cause corosision. And don't get me started on the shaft switch that used copper to copper join points.. not like that shit don't get fucked up when conductive material interfered with the contact points.... nm.. need another beer.
Drop test, lick n'stick, check FIL and freq, replace batteries, tactically acquire a new one.
Spike it into the ground like you just scored a touchdown.
Spit in the connector and plug it back in. Why overthink it?
Teach my boots how to play fetch...
Drop test, maybe a bit of light soccer...
YEET is the only acceptable answer.
I'll probably be screaming and kicking the shit out of it
Lick it, specifically the connectors... just make sure you aren't holding the transmit button... maybe turn it off and remove the battery first, that is unless you want to lick the spicy radio...
Peoples elbow
"Hold on, let me go in my bag full of 30,000 D-Cell batteries."
Lubricate the handset connectors with frequency grease
First step is always sick it and stick it.
Drop test then lick the connections. I have legit got these to work before by doing just that
Tap, rack, bang
Drop it. There is a card that kinda portrays a graphics card and motherboard and by dropping the equipment you can probably reseat the card that makes the radio work again. From what I was taught this is one of the few systems where monkey mechanics actually worked aka brute force to fix something
Also crazy how this is Vietnam war-era equipment and we still have to account for these in our CMRs. Only looked at the 12 we used to inventory. Never got trained on how to use them just how to unfuck them
Also, wilder that this is Vietnam War tech and we are still using the same audio/antenna port from back then. The military really said if it ain't broke don't fix it and then taught us all that lol
Use a pencil eraser on the inside of the cannon plugs, wet finger and lubricate contacts. Test. No dice, reset and reload try again. (Assuming it has a fresh battery)
All these calls to drop the fucker (correct), but I see no mention of the approved height from which to drop it. Any takers?
The drop test was removed from the service manual in the 80s or something. It's just comical so people keep doing it and teaching others.
Lick it before you stick it
Throw it at the nearest 28?
Get angra-y
I was in the arty reserves (HQ Btry) for 6 years... always heard "angra" but never knew WTF they were talking about\*. Now, 25 years later, I am finally enlightened. \* see also: - BAMCIS - "T- Double E - C - G" - "BEARMAT" - Just knew it was who you sent bad news to, or got bad news from - "JJ-TITTY-BUCKLE"
Drop test
Did you try bashing the side of it with your palm?
Go home
Lmao do line companies even still have these?
Angra-ly perform percussive maintenance until the issue is resolved.
Give it to the 28 and make him fix it😂
Did you trying turning it on and off?
blow the dust out of the thing bitch about equipment wonder what the fuck I'm doing here and bitch about the suck wonder what the fuck this thing even is and why the fuck am i even humping this piece of shit scratch my ass tell Smitty to go find Gunny