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Ma Deuce Driveby - Caption Contest

By Boquisucio on September 17, 2010 | | Comments (26)
I wonder what the kid is saying:



High Rez: HERE

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By BillT on September 17, 2010 7:12 AM
"ZOMG! He ate the gunner!"
 
By Eric on September 17, 2010 8:09 AM
You fire a 'duce' from that 1/4ton, you'll be in deep kimchie
 
By SGT B on September 17, 2010 8:57 AM
Eric:  Actually, the M151A2 was the mobile platform upon which we mounted our M2s.  The whole "Rat Patrol" shooting on the fly was a fallicy, but we did use the arrangement to transport the weapon from place to place.  Things changed when we switched over to the HummVee.

Not that there wasn't a few attempts at playing Rat Patrol; it looked cool driving down the main street of Deigo Garcia, past the adoring looks of the ladies...
 
By Heartless Libertarian on September 17, 2010 9:17 AM
"Day-um!  The [insert appropriate voluntary association of choirboy yutes here] need to take a lesson on drive-bys from the old white guy!"
 
By Cricket on September 17, 2010 10:18 AM
MOM!!  He's got a gun!  Can I have one that isn't in a LEGO kit?

 
By jim b on September 17, 2010 10:21 AM
Don't sweat the Ma Deuce, it has been transformed into a very large paper weight.

.... the axe on the other hand ....
 
By allen on September 17, 2010 10:42 AM
gotta love those seabee markings on the jeep!

makes me wonder where he comshawed it from.........
 
By SuperCaffinated on September 17, 2010 11:18 AM
Got a strong suspicion that anyone "saluting" that gentleman would do well to use ALL his fingers...
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 17, 2010 11:20 AM
Jim B - not necessarily...  depends on where he is.

At the Parade of Heroes, most of the guns on vehicles were live 'n legal.
 
By SFC D on September 17, 2010 11:52 AM
I want one!
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on September 17, 2010 3:23 PM
 Look Mom!
A Navy tank!

Cheers
 
By Grumpy on September 17, 2010 3:27 PM
"*Sticker Shock,* The Cost of Free Speech!" 
 
By Saker on September 17, 2010 4:56 PM
Mr. Heinrichs- Well played, sir. :D
 
By Eric on September 17, 2010 7:58 PM
Truck, Utility, 1/4 ton, M151A2. driven them many a mile, CONUS and USAREUR. V Corps area. The heaviest gun that could be SAFELY mounted was the M60. The recoil forces of the M2 would rip the pedestal off the floor. There is no frame rail to reinforce the floor  (unibody construction). This fact also made this truck unstable at highway speeds. That's why the last of the trucks had roll cages retrofitted in the 80's (before the Hummer replaced them) and that the DOT required DRMO to 'demil' M151 chassis by quartering the vehicle with a torch. The M151 is prone to flipping at moderate speeds and sharp turns are made.

Hell, I saw a 151 turn over in the motor pool at Ft Carson once. It was standing still. High winds flipped it. 
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 17, 2010 8:13 PM
I got rolled in a M151A2 at Graf (on the hardball by the Forest Meisters near the Vilseck gate) in 81.  We were doing 15 mph and hit black ice.
 
By Justthisguy on September 17, 2010 9:36 PM
Umm, no, Eric, it's the jacking effect from the swing axles.  Though that should be non-existent on black ice.  Maybe the black ice got it sideways and it slid into a patch of good traction, which tripped it.
 
By Justthisguy on September 17, 2010 9:54 PM
On the being-cut-in-two part: Yah, I read about that years ago, and a few years after that I saw a couple of them registered for the road, in the Atlanta area.  There are always outliers, cheaters, special cases, and people who just didn't get the word.  For instance, I saw a Caribou at Redstone Army Airfield in 1972 or thenabouts with US ARMY painted on it, long after the AF made the Army officially quit using them.
 
By Justthisguy on September 17, 2010 10:34 PM
Reminds me of the time I bought a camber compensator as a present for my sorta-sweety-at-the-time. She had a VW beetle.  There were some problems with installation,  which may have been some of the things leading to our no longer hanging out with each other.

When she graduated, she got a commission, in Ordnance.  She retired as a Major, and yup her forename was Barbara.  My high school sweety's name was Barbara,  and one of my thirty-years sweetie's names was Barbara. 

Now do y'all see why I was strangely attracted to this blog?






 
By Justthisguy on September 17, 2010 11:29 PM
P.s. Yah I know, the Engineering Solution to  Boy&Girl  relations is fated to fail, but apparently she was significantly more normal than I, and I didn't realize that in my head.
 
By The Thomas on September 18, 2010 12:30 AM
Check out the Dad in the front seat drawing the son's attention to the object in the driver's side mirror.
 
By BillT on September 18, 2010 3:27 AM
I saw a Caribou at Redstone Army Airfield in 1972 or thenabouts with US ARMY painted on it, long after the AF made the Army officially quit using them.

Nup -- the one you saw at Redstone was one of four stateside C-7s that stayed in Army livery until they went to museums -- the other three were Golden Knights. And a whole bunch of the Caribooboos in RVN were Army-owned and operated until 1974, at least.

 
By John of Argghhh! on September 18, 2010 5:29 PM
JTG - yer right, it was when we hit traction we flipped.
 
By Casey on September 19, 2010 12:45 AM
So y'all figure that's a de-milled M2, or a semi-auto model? IIRC, the latter are both available & legal, if you have the bucks.

And, yes, I noticed dad scoping out the ride.

Speaking of Rat Patrol, I wonder how many boys would enjoy watching it today, along with Combat!; no doubt the Politically Correct would be deeply dismayed.

Vic Morrow rulez.

 
By Quartermaster on September 19, 2010 11:26 AM
I can't believe that y'll would not what happened here. The driver is BillT's best buddy, and BillT took the pic after they swiped the jeep from the Seabees. Just some good ol' Army-Navy hikinks.
 
By Casey on September 19, 2010 9:37 PM
Hey, QM, what're you doing over here? Slumming? (I kid, I kid!)

 
By Justthisguy on September 20, 2010 3:58 AM
John, you should print up, and wear, and sell to properly vetted similar folks, a t-shirt with the words  "I survived a rollover in the infamous M-151 Death Jeep." on it.