A friend driving an M88 retriever at FT Hood, a place known for poor maintenance.
The MPs changed the route at bottom of a hill, Anglo, not being one to care, ran over their jeep; totally and completely.
The wanted his head and stripes, but bad brakes is bad breaks.
One brother was a 2nd AD cannon cocker. He told about a grunt moving his sleeping bag onto a tank trail one night so he could lay on the soft chewed up ground. Sure enough, some M60s came along at oh dark thirty and ran over him.
Same brother was driving an M109 155mm through a German village where they accused him of hitting a curb and breaking some of it off. He said the krauts would fake claim damages quite a bit to get Uncle Sap to pay for them.
I sure would have liked to have watched the M88/ jeep mating. Particularly being an MP jeep.
The Maintenance CO may have a bit of trouble explaining how his guys couldn’t maintain the brakes on their own retriever though.