Re: hey supermouth...betchya ain't done this scene

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> http://www.dnaofcommerce.com/C-17_loading_a_Big_Truck_U.S._Air_Force_photoMaj._Tommy_Roberts_op_800x543.jpg




What, cut and paste pictures from the internet?

He does it all the time.

As far as loading semis on an aircraft, though, I started doing that when
I was 19 years old, although they were tactical vehicles on C-5s, the C-17
didn't exist then.

My last duty station (imagine that, Richard- more than one) was at Cherry
Point Naval Air Station.

It's the reason I got a Class 1 to begin with.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762/Jarheads#5220377363170304434

Oh, look! A picture of a truck with me -actually- in the picture!!!!!!

My primary MOS is 0431, Unit Embarkation Specialist- sort of the Marine
equivalent of Loadmaster.

But unlike the other services, we were trained to load everything from
railcars to ships.

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Was that at 10 ton behind you? I've loaded rail cars and C-5s but
nothing onto ships. Us doggies like to keep our feet out of the deep
wate -). I've worked on tank and truck recovery vehicles. Towed 2
Sheridan M551A1 tanks through Germain villages. Through the frozen
hillsides of Korea. Slide an M88A1 sideways down a frozen Korean
hillside. I would never thought a heavy tracked vehicle would slide
sideways on much of any thing but we went about fifty feet before we
caught traction on something. Drove many miles on a 5 ton wrecker. Even
towed an M113A1 APC with a wrecker. Got my ass chewed but an old motor
Sgt who later told me he would have done the same thing. I enjoyed
doing what most thought couldn't be done. I used a 5 ton wrecker to
pull the power pack from an M60A1 main battle tank when the weight was
way over the recommended weight lifting capacity of the wrecker. I got
a ticket in Germany from an MP on a tank trail for doing 45 in a 25 in
a tank retervier. When the ticket came down to my CO he called me in
about and asked what I was doing. I asked him if he really thought than
VTR would really do 45 and he threw the ticket in the trash and
laughed. I saluted did an about face and marched out of his office
trying my best not to laugh. I was most likely doing over 50 before the
MPs actually saw me. It's amazing what happens when you know how to
tune the injectors and fiddle with the transmission a little.

If you're wondering I did my first 8 years as MOS 63C Trank and
Wheeled Vehicle mechanic. That was for company level maintenance but I
had always played with engines before I joined the Army. After the 8
years of chasing tankers that couldn't give you good cordinates when
they broke down I went into communications. People would think tank
drivers would have to know have to know how to navigate on a military
grid map but let me tell you as a mechanic you have to be better than
them to find them when there tank breaks. One of the few times a tanker
gave me good coordinates he told me his headlights wouldn't work. It
took me about 5 minutes to find the plastic wrapper from a cigarette
pack. I suspect he was wanting an excuse to get out of the training
exercise. The CO was happy to explain to the Sgt how he felt about
people not liking his training plan. I drove away before the best part
of the ass chewing started.

Top

Ya, it was a 10 Ton. Sounds like you had some wild rides back in the day. :-)



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