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Tank Driving 101: CAPTION THIS PHOTO
Strategy Page.com ^ | 7 Jun 02 | Self

Posted on 06/07/2002 12:44:39 AM PDT by 11B3

While going through the humor page at StrategyPage.com, I ran into this photo. You have to wonder what this sounded like - either inside or outside of the tank. The butt-chewing the driver must have gotten would have been priceless to hear, I'm sure. Caption at will.



TOPICS: Editorial; Free Republic; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: tank; wall
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To: 11B3
COME OUTA THAT FOX HOLE WITH YOU'RE HANDS UP!!
101 posted on 06/07/2002 9:04:55 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: 11B3
(for led zep fans)

Has anybody seen the bridge??

102 posted on 06/07/2002 9:15:21 PM PDT by herewego
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I'm not BSing you sarge, we find it easier to change the tracks this way. Swear!!!
103 posted on 06/07/2002 10:01:08 PM PDT by spectr17
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To: lowbridge, Physicist
Sorry gentlemen, but women are not allowed into the combat tank M.O.S.'s.... Sooo this means that a male was actually driving. Which is no suprise to us women LOL ****ducks flying remote control****
104 posted on 06/07/2002 10:02:05 PM PDT by KineticKitty
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To: KineticKitty
Point taken. (smile)

Do you think maybe the driver should have at least asked for directions?

105 posted on 06/08/2002 3:01:23 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: PsyOp
You may drive my machine ... only if you make me one little promise ... &;-)


106 posted on 06/08/2002 4:39:47 AM PDT by 2Trievers
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To: Calvin Locke
Great response, permitting this rejoinder;-)

"Sir, it's a Kennedy --already tanked."

107 posted on 06/08/2002 7:44:29 AM PDT by JohnCliftn
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To: 2Trievers
You may drive my machine ... only if you make me one little promise ... &;-)

Anything! Name it!

108 posted on 06/08/2002 8:34:12 PM PDT by PsyOp
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To: 2Trievers
my machine

do they make one with a turbo?

109 posted on 06/08/2002 8:39:17 PM PDT by PsyOp
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To: PsyOp
"Anything! Name it!"

LOL ... mail call &;-)

110 posted on 06/08/2002 8:45:40 PM PDT by 2Trievers
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To: 11B3
DAMN! The GPS/INS computerized NAV/Geoid Mapping Software SAID there was a bridge here. Whadda mean they didn't "update the database since the last air strike"?
111 posted on 06/08/2002 8:49:28 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 11B3
No foul there. There are only two sins a tanker can commit. Bury the gun barrel in the dirt or run out of gas. Just a minor mishap here.
112 posted on 06/09/2002 9:56:47 AM PDT by kylaka
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To: 11B3
The driver must have trained *here* instead of Ft. Knox or Ft. Hood:


113 posted on 06/09/2002 11:31:21 AM PDT by archy
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To: 11B3
I said "Turn RIGHT dammit, your MILITARY RIGHT!!".

That would be: I said, Driver, stop, dammit....*

114 posted on 06/09/2002 11:34:10 AM PDT by archy
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To: kylaka
No foul there. There are only two sins a tanker can commit. Bury the gun barrel in the dirt or run out of gas. Just a minor mishap here.

No problem that the battalion M88A3 VTRs can't solve- it's when you have to call for engineers or worse, ordnance that there's usually hell to pay and the vehicle's weight in paper work.

One other tank with a set of tow cables, a couple of ground guides good at hand signals and a driver who knows how to drive, and I think they could right neutral steer out of there without even getting the VTRs dirty.

I've got a VTR driver pal I'll have take a look at the pic and see what he thinks.

-archy-/-

115 posted on 06/09/2002 11:40:41 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy
Heh, heh.

This kind of thing happens at NTC all the time. One group of Bradleys rather famously drove off a 25-foot cliff with a number of fatalities. Famous last words (literally): "Are you sure this is the right way, Lieutenant?" "Shut up and drive!"

Another error you can commit is leaving the vehicle in neutral on a hill -- when there is a FARP downhill. The score on that one was M60 1, Ah-1 0. SBeck still owes me a photo of that one.

SBeck, ping to you, check this thread. See what mischief your branch gets up to?

Did anyone else notice that the artist who did the Russian-language tracked Porsche used a WWII German interleaved suspension? Not just a sense of humour but a subtle one.

And, KineticKitty is right, probability is that a man was driving. Gals in some maintenance jobs might drive a tank but not around obstacles like this -- she would drive it off a maint ramp instead. Indeed it's not hard to see this mishap as testosterone-based in another way: "Hey, y'all, watch this!" (Which I'm sure someone has already suggested as a caption. It just fits).

Anyone remember, "Thanks for the offer of a ride, but no thanks, sir. A rolling foxhole attracts the eye." - Willie and Joe (Bill Mauldin), 1944

But my caption is: "Skinky -- uh, General Shinseki -- said we had to at least try to use tanks to winkle the Taliban out of these caves. He doesn't want those bearded hippies in SF getting all the credit."

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

116 posted on 06/10/2002 5:58:37 AM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
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To: 11B3
AGGIE KORPS AQUIRES NEW TANKS - NEW DRIVERS EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTIES
117 posted on 06/10/2002 11:37:59 AM PDT by JG52blackman
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To: 11B3
When did Roger Clinton join the military?
118 posted on 06/10/2002 7:53:58 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: 11B3
Doh!

119 posted on 06/10/2002 8:06:26 PM PDT by TxBec
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To: lowbridge
"No bet. Judging by the tank, the driver was a woman.

***ducks flying frying pan***"

I told you to stop and ask for directions! ;)

120 posted on 06/10/2002 8:09:06 PM PDT by terilyn
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