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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Do you get any indication of where the shells are going? Is there any kind of smoke trail or contrails or anything? Or do you just see it fire and then 5 minutes later you see the coast blow up?
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We were at least half a mile away. I saw the fireballs erupt from the barrels and heard the roar a few seconds later (even at that distance, it was loud as hell). I have no idea if the fired shell is visible to the naked eye or not from close up. And I also have no idea where the shells hit, although I figure if they were aiming at anything, it would have been some sort of floating target in the Caribbean too far away to see. This was peacetime off the coast of Guantanamo Bay. Iowa was probably down there for the same training and readiness evaluation that my ship was.