It's a big one, though, with all types of army words on its.
There are no coincidences.
They actually paid a guy to say that?
“A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County...”
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OK, so when were they supposed to drop the Humvee over a neighborhood in Harnett County?
I have read that if a package gets delivered to you on your property, you get to keep it for free.
I was a USAF loadmaster with many drops at Bragg/Pope and never missed that bad. And that was before GPS with a navigator using stubby pencil!!
Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Red Badger wrote:
OOPS!....................
I believe the proper Military vernacular [for an event such as this] is ‘OOPSIE’!
No above ground pool was harmed.
How can you afford a new humvee?
Hey, its as easy as falling off an airplane.
If the vehicle landed on private property, I think the property owner should get to keep the Humvee.
On a training mission in Grafenwoehr, Germany in the 60s, I was attached to an artillery battery of towed 155 Howitzers and during the night and day, there was constant firing into the target range.
There were some rare misses, both long and short and the results were GI injuries and some times, death.
When that happened, some junior officers, took it in the shorts.
I was a Medic {or as our former President called us, a Corpse-man} and we had to do the gruesome clean up. Ugly stuff, friendly fire is not friendly.
Accidents happen, but it makes the injury or death seem worse when it is GI on GI.
I was at an airshow at PAX River in the’70s, and saw this happen. A huge helicopter lumbered over the horizon with something slung underneath and trailing a bit behind. The announcer prepped the crowd in excited tones to see a special Navy helicopter. Once the helicopter got to within half a mile or so, we could see the load was actually a Volkswagen Beetle. Then, suddenly the Beetle broke free and started to drop. “Oh, Oh, what’s happened here” said the announcer in mock surprise as the Beetle fell from maybe a thousand feet or more. When that thing hit, there was a quick cloud of dust, it bounced up maybe twenty feet, and at the same time all four wheels popped straight off. That was entertainment!
I HATE when that happens. Luckily, my P-3B was almost always over water...
Finders Keepers !!! Bubba gets a new hunting rig.
When you're flying near stall speed, and close to the ground, the last thing you need is a HMMWV and a parachute dragging along behind it, that's still attached to the airplane. So it's very important to make sure that it's not attached when you deploy the chute.
Someone must have gotten things out of sequence.