I had the helmet too. And some sort of machine gun/grenade launcher with a little collapsable tripod support on the front. A kid could get some serious firepower back in the 60s and 70s. When I was young — 6 or 7, I got a replica of a tripod mounted, air cooled, 30 caliber machine gun. It ran on batteries and had a red illuminated tube on the front that would go in and out as you fired and some sort of sound effect happened.

As much implicit violence in all that kind of war play I never considered it anything but play. Cowboys and indians was another matter. Go shot in the head by an arrow — went in under my scalp — still have a scar. Cap gun wasn’t as powerful…

I remember The Monkey Division weaponry…I had the helmet…ha ha. The two part episode Hill’s are for Heros won an Emmy for the show I think…there were some excellent episodes. My Dad bought me a plastic M1 rifle…it was so cool.

Brent

Time flies when you’re having fun. And goes even faster when you’re not. Best to make good decisions at our age!

Thanks!

It was a different time that’s for sure.

I loved watching Combat! It used to be on every night at midnight when I was a kid. Would stay up half the night in the summer. We had a German exchange student once and he had a hard time believing five GI’s could continually defeat the Germans.

We played Army in the woods too. Dug foxholes, ran around shooting at each other with toy guns. I remember having a whole line of Monkey Division weaponry.

Not many kids have the same experience today with “the woods”.

Money. I hear you. Someday I’ll see you on the road though. You should stop by the Moto Hang this Wednesday in Boalsburg. See what you’re missing.

Things to ponder, stuff to do. And being able to do any of this, let alone all, is itself a Good Thing. (I’ve been thinking like this since well before turning 60 myself this year.)

90? Being that I’m 60, this heartens me. 🙂

I don’t think that happens now…but I know it was so much fun!!!…it’s a step below target shooting which we never did as we weren’t allowed pellet guns by our Parents…smart move… As a kid you are creating the image of a WW2 Battlefield…and to create the action is exciting and to inspect the damage later was always the best part. Nobody got hurt…and it improved your throwing arm. We would stand back quite a ways like we were artillery fire. COMBAT on t.v. was the inspiration for such games I’m sure…we used to play in the woods WW2 war games all the time. The woods across the street was everything to us.