Posted on 11/16/2006 7:37:36 AM PST by pabianice
Aberdeen Proving Grounds is located in the Peoples Republic of Maryland.
>Don't know if I would have wanted to stand that close to a large object being pulled up by cables,<
Good thinking!
When I was just a little kid I saw a heavy Euclid truck being pulled after the rear wheels had sunk, by a large bulldozer, probably a D-8, using a heavy chain. The chain snapped and cut 4 miners in half in the blink of an eye.
Read the article
Weird story, but I have a part of a creek (technically a river) on our ranch that turns to quick sand when it floods.
Not that long ago, I was out looking for a calf (after bad rains and a flood), and spotted a calf that looked like it had just drowned --- went over (carefully) and it had my great, great, great, grandfather's brand on it! Pre-Civil War!
I just shoved it back into the muck.
Ugh!
I once watched a pair D9s tied together with anchor chain clearing scrub cedar trees in north central Nevada. The chain popped loose from one end and landed several yards away - and this was big-boy anchor chain. The amount of energy held in the material must be -well, amazing.
Bizarre in the extreme.
It must have been a surreal moment when you recognized that brand.
Did you hear any Twilight Zone music?
It was pretty weird. The calf looked like it died that day.
Whew!! I was glad you explained the picture. I was afraid that I had unwittingly stumbled onto a Helen Thomas thread...
put that sucker on ebay.
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
He was a paratrooper in WW II. Right?
Wikipedia
Rod Serling served as a U.S. Army paratrooper and demolition specialist with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific Theater in World War II from January 1943 to January 1945. He was seriously wounded in the wrist and knee during combat and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Due to his wartime experiences, Serling suffered from nightmares and flashbacks for the rest of his life. Though he was rather short (5'4") and slight, Serling was also a noted boxer during his military days.
The T-34/76 was superior to the German tanks that participated in Operation Barbarossa such as the Mark III, IV, and T-35 38 Czech tanks. It came as such a shocking suprise to the Germans with its technologically superior virtues of armor protection, mobility, and firepower that they immediately began work on their next generation of tanks to counter it.
The Germans responded with the Mark V Panther with the 76 MM high velocity gun, modeled directly from the T-34 and the Mark VI Tiger with the dreaded 88MM gun. Both these tanks were superior to the T34 in firepower and armor protection, but the Reds had the advantage of superior numbers.
When they ran.
So THAT'S where I parked it!
No, thats where I parked on top of where you parked!
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