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How the Iowa National Guard Built Their Own Predator-Style Ammo Packs

Posted October 18, 2011 7:18 AM

From Gizmodo:

Remember in Predator when Jess Ventura is unleashing his M-134 Mini-gun into the forest? It was being fed by an ammo box strapped to his back. Turns out, that wasn't an actual piece of Army kit, at least until members of the Iowa National Guard created it themselves.

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10/18/2011 11:55 AM

A perfect illustration of an old saw:

Necessity = Mother of Invention

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10/18/2011 10:29 PM

I thought it was Bill Duke who was unleashing the minigun at the forest.... Jesse used it in the village.

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10/19/2011 10:02 AM

You made me think about it... had to look.
Here is an image of the cast, showing Blain Cooper (Ventura) with "Ol' Painless"

[edit] Oops! I shoulda watched your yootoob link before commenting. It clearly shows you are right. Ventura wasn't even in the shoot-em-up scene captioned.

Good catch.

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10/19/2011 10:42 AM

I wonder how many federal dollars could be saved if the government were to present all technical problems to a bunch of country boys?

We could probably cut the size of government in half..........................and everything would work better.

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