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Checking the load, 2001
Stars and Stripes
March 13, 2025
(Andy Dunaway/Stars and Stripes)
Chorwon Valley, South Korea, Sept. 29, 2001: Private First Class Richard Houser, driver with the 6th Battalion, 37th Artillery Regiment at Camp Stanley, looks back to check if the pod area has completed its rotation after upload of live pods onto the (MLRS) multiple launch rocket system vehicle. The battalion spent several days practicing firing rockets with the flat-topped, tanklike mobile rocket launchers. MLRS batteries did such damage to Iraqi forces in the Gulf War that Iraqi troops referred to the rocket strikes as “steel rain.”
Want to know what goes into firing the MLRS? Check out the original article here.