Behold the M198 155mm howitzer– museum piece.
I was driving past the 10th Marines area yesterday and saw it sitting there, all clean and painted and shiny, which of course was my first clue that something was amiss. Yes, there it was among all the other museum pieces, the legends of Marine Corps artillery. (When I reported for duty in 1990, we still fielded the M101A1 105mm, as well as 155mm SPs and the 8-inch. All of them are on display too.)
Certainly it was on the big and heavy side, but it never failed to deliver the goods. If the Marine Corps sees fit to send me back into the artillery community proper, I’ll be happy to get just as acquainted with its successor, the M777.
