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us Offline SteveC

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Gravity check Army style
on: April 28, 2016, 08:51:30 PM


Whoops    :facepalm:

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Last week, one of The Box’s exercises—an airdrop—apparently didn’t go so hot. The Tactical Air Network reports that the 173rd Airborne Brigade dropped HMMWVs from their C130 aircraft, only to lose three “Hummers” to our good friend “gravity.”

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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #1 on: April 28, 2016, 09:04:13 PM
I'll be someone got a good chewing out for that one!   :ahhh

How many potatoes do you have to peel for each Hummer flattened?  And is it pro-rated by how close to being retired the HMMWV's were?

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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #2 on: April 28, 2016, 09:09:18 PM
Oopps! :D
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #3 on: April 28, 2016, 09:12:32 PM
D'oh! :D
There's no such thing as "Too pretty to carry".  There's only "Too pretty NOT to carry"...... >:D
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #4 on: April 28, 2016, 11:32:58 PM
Oh       yes       yes                     yes       hahahahaha!   :D

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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #5 on: April 30, 2016, 03:18:25 AM
I'm so glad I know no one involved in that.
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #6 on: April 30, 2016, 09:52:57 PM
I'm glad there was no one on the ground trying to catch them!

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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #7 on: April 30, 2016, 10:25:13 PM
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on April 28, 2016, 09:04:13 PM
I'll be someone got a good chewing out for that one!   :ahhh

How many potatoes do you have to peel for each Hummer flattened?  And is it pro-rated by how close to being retired the HMMWV's were?

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Nope.

About 15 percent loss is expected. I have lossed count of the Army vehicles I have seen destroyed.
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #8 on: May 01, 2016, 03:08:04 AM
How many of those were you responsible for?  :P

I grew up on military bases and one thing I can say about the Canadian Military, at least back the, was that nothing was ever truly written off.  They'd have sent a bunch of guys to dig out the remains of those trucks and start putting them back together for inspection the next morning!

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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #9 on: May 01, 2016, 03:27:24 AM
Quote from: HarleyXJGuy on April 30, 2016, 10:25:13 PM
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on April 28, 2016, 09:04:13 PM
I'll be someone got a good chewing out for that one!   :ahhh

How many potatoes do you have to peel for each Hummer flattened?  And is it pro-rated by how close to being retired the HMMWV's were?

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Nope.

About 15 percent loss is expected. I have lossed count of the Army vehicles I have seen destroyed.

My federal tax dollars at work.....:facepalm:
There's no such thing as "Too pretty to carry".  There's only "Too pretty NOT to carry"...... >:D
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #10 on: May 01, 2016, 03:39:01 AM
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on May 01, 2016, 03:08:04 AM

How many of those were you responsible for?  :P


Could you repeat the question?





No comment, I plead the fifth.
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #11 on: May 01, 2016, 03:52:01 AM
Quote from: jerseydevil on May 01, 2016, 03:27:24 AM
Quote from: HarleyXJGuy on April 30, 2016, 10:25:13 PM
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on April 28, 2016, 09:04:13 PM
I'll be someone got a good chewing out for that one!   :ahhh

How many potatoes do you have to peel for each Hummer flattened?  And is it pro-rated by how close to being retired the HMMWV's were?

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Nope.

About 15 percent loss is expected. I have lossed count of the Army vehicles I have seen destroyed.

My federal tax dollars at work.....:facepalm:

It is a necessary evil.

In order to project a military ground presence to a country you need either amphibious or air insertion capabilities assuming the said country is not land locked.

To be fair we have only one Airborne Division in the US Army whose annual budget is nothing compared to a Heavy Tank Division or anything with Air Force or Navy in the description.
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #12 on: May 01, 2016, 05:44:22 PM
 The russians also have armored vehichles they paradrop. Only they drop them with crews inside. (Atleast the BMD-1 wich also has rockets firing to dampen the landing.) i believe they also operate with a loss percentage on exersises....
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #13 on: May 02, 2016, 01:57:39 AM
Quote from: Grathr on May 01, 2016, 05:44:22 PM
The russians also have armored vehichles they paradrop. Only they drop them with crews inside. (Atleast the BMD-1 wich also has rockets firing to dampen the landing.) i believe they also operate with a loss percentage on exersises....

This is in the top three most scared of dying moments I have had during my 21 years in the Army was jumping from a Russian plane with Russian Jumpmasters.

This includes all of my combat deployments.
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Re: Gravity check Army style
Reply #14 on: May 02, 2016, 02:08:24 AM
nothing instills fear like 5,000 pounds of material accelerating towards terminal velocity!    :rofl:

this would have been amazing if there was som nitro-glycerin in them!   :D
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