On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Deb Fuller wrote:

<snip>
> I won't get into it
> but I've seen NPS people do some really *stupid* things with cannons so
>I have little faith in their training.


Many years ago, I worked at a National Military Park (Fort Washington,
MD), then home to several of the NPS artillery instructors (and home to
the civilian muzzle-loading branch of the Military Order of St. Barbara,
whose feast day was Dec. 4). We fired a M 1841 6-pdr and an M 1842 12-pdr
howitzer (blanks. I have also fired a Confederate 12-pdr coehorn mortar
(live).


Unless the NPS has gotten sloppy (or underfunded for such things) the
trainers/training should not be blamed for the stupidity of the trainees.

Thomas Kavanagh, PhD

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