Posted on 04/22/2016 2:32:15 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
I love the guys laughing in the background.
ROFL!!
My old man backed a tank over half of a jeep. He had to pay for it, on Uncle Sam's friendly installment plan. How much of his ass got chewed remains classified...
It would have been me if I was standing there.......LOL!
Been there and saw dumb stuff.........
Don't bet on it..I'm sure there was a lot of background laughter going on that wasn't caught on the video.......
The only one not laughing is the CO responsible for the pre-drop prep...........Oh well, shit happens......LOL!
That’s one way to get rid of old broken down hanger queens that the higher ups refuse to replace.
:)
That is so true.
We never did anything as large as a HMMWV, but old prc-77 radios may or may not have experienced a similar fate.
The thing that surprised me is the new hummers cost up to 220k. Summer 1987, Ft Bragg. We pulled our first hummers out of their crates, price tags still attached. 27k each.
Hopefully for 220k the battery under the front passenger seat doesn’t get so hot you have to put your flak jacket on the seat just to sit down for any length of time.
True that, he’s in a world of hurt. The thing that blows me away is that it was videoed and then put on facebook and you tube.
Damn straight it was!
When your every move is defined by regulation, custom, local orders, or the grand plans of people totally ignorant of what they might entail, watching one of those plans turn brown, without any injuries, can be a real morale boost.
Real question should be Why in hell would someone deliver several 130 loads of Hummers by parachute, into open fields, when there are perfectly good runways all over the landscape?
If, as I suspect, the answer is a training exercise...didn't they simply relearn that airdrops are going to see something like 10% failures under the best of conditions?
HMMWV had (has still?) one of the most uncomfortable seats. Sure it could go anywhere. But it’s another example of a vehicle nobody really wanted. The jeeps were ok but I would’ve preferred a Land Rover or G wagon
Active Duty ping.
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I’m glad those jackasses got a chuckle while American tax dollars are being wasted.
I don’t have much experience with “heavies”.
Who packs the US Army’s stuff? If it is the AF, this is an embarrassment. If it is the Army, then I can see the chuckles...
Spent two January's at Hohenfels and Graf. Actually listened to the first Superbowl on Armed Forces Radio while there.
The C130 in the loading pic lower on that page is from Ramstein.
Looks like the vehicles were not strapped to the pallets doesn’t it?
I have no idea who does it now, but back in my day AF loadmasters had final say on all palletized materiel flying out of the ass end of USAF aircraft.
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