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.
Has anybody seen the bridge??
LOL ****ducks flying remote control****
Do you think maybe the driver should have at least asked for directions?
"Sir, it's a Kennedy --already tanked."
Anything! Name it!
do they make one with a turbo?
LOL ... mail call &;-)
That would be: I said, Driver, stop, dammit....*
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-/-
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
***ducks flying frying pan***"
I told you to stop and ask for directions! ;)
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