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It's an oddly busy day

By The Armorer on January 2, 2009 | | Comments (21)
So posting may (or may not, I did say "oddly busy") be light - unless the the Muse I sent out in the form of an extremely annoying lapdog with sharp teeth finds one of the other bubbas around here - so I'll leave this little tidbit for all my treadhead buddies...

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By Fishmugger on January 2, 2009 9:12 AM
The insurance guy is going to want at least two estimates.
 
By OlafTheTanker on January 2, 2009 9:29 AM
i've seen this pic a few times and can't help but think that somehow this did not end up as a laughing matter for at least the TC if not the loader if they were both riding unbuttoned.
Considering that they appear to be more concerned with collecting something (Fuel from forward tank?) in barrels with rags than hooking up an 88 or three to flip it back shiney side up, I'm seriously hoping the crew got out ok.
I've seen a few scenario like this (but not as bad) out in the desert but luckiy those only ended up with the vehicle on it's side and the worst was a busted up collar bone from the tossed-out commander of an M-113 still trying to go 30mph on its side down in a forgotten dugout in the middle of scrub brush in the hinterlands of Ft. Drum..
 
By JoeC on January 2, 2009 9:41 AM
Is that known as "Oops"?
 
By Damian on January 2, 2009 9:43 AM
Anybody seen Heinrichs?  HEINRICHS!
 
By Argent on January 2, 2009 9:56 AM
Oh that's quite funny.

I never thought about extra exits from tanks till now.  One hopes there was one.
 
By Josh on January 2, 2009 10:04 AM
As the only user [in this case, former user] of VWVortex present, I am legally required to make the following statement...

That'll buff right out!
 
By AFSister on January 2, 2009 10:43 AM
No, Joe- that's known as an "OH SHIT"
 
By jim b on January 2, 2009 12:34 PM
This helps put things in perspective.

By that I mean I thought being upside down in your car was a problem.
 
By BillT on January 2, 2009 2:19 PM
I was upside down in a Pinto, once.

Never try to panic-stop a Pinto while you're in a turn. Never.
 
By Grumpy on January 2, 2009 2:52 PM
@AFSister, I like your assessment of this messy situation. Is this like the joke, "They said and did it all, at the same time."?
 
By SSG Jeff (USAR) on January 2, 2009 3:19 PM
This is when the bottom hatch the M60 had might come in useful....
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on January 2, 2009 4:11 PM
 Watched a Cougar assume the "dead ant" position once; not humorous at the time, and I sought to avoid such in the future. Turrets are badly configured for crew comfort when rolled 180deg from the 'normal'.
This also shows why a 'drop now' switch on the Crew Commander's seat is considered useful.

Cheers
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 2, 2009 4:42 PM
It's never funny when it happens, John.  BTDT, GTTS.  More than one.

But it's funny if everybody walks, or at least limps away from it.

 
By jim b on January 2, 2009 6:04 PM
Yanno Bill I was wondering who was riding that pinto in that Calvary Troop.

Wasn't that horse named "Alpo"?
 
By BillT on January 3, 2009 8:07 AM
I didn't notice one of the bears was a pinto...
 
By Old Fat Sailor on January 3, 2009 9:00 AM
Unlikely as it may seem that was once done with a PBR on dry land, from the water, wish I could say I was there but saw the pics-way pre photoshop. Happy mid winter pagan holidays to all.
 
By Maggie on January 3, 2009 9:09 AM
OFS - That doesn't sound unlikely to me considering I was told the Pabst Blue Ribbon people liked to send presents to their namesakes in the PBRs.
 
By BillT on January 3, 2009 12:17 PM
Pabst sent freebies to the Navy?

I'm aghast -- us Army guys had to pay a nickel a can...
 
By RetRsvMike on January 3, 2009 4:44 PM
well, it IS one way of getting some slack in the track if you really want to get some maintenance done.
 
By Arditi on January 3, 2009 6:01 PM
Hey!!  I...resemble that!  ;) haha
 
By Old Fat Sailor on January 3, 2009 6:54 PM
I seem to remember the Green Macine types getting a few free ones at the beer hooch, formaldehide and all, still better than ba mui ba.