03/07/2011 - U.S. Marine Cpl. Donovan J. Barnes, right, with the Personal Security Detachment, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 1, engages the enemy in eastern Marjah, Afghanistan, March 7, 2011. Operation Sampson was a joint/combined clearing operation by U.S. and Afghan forces to clear insurgents and secure the local population in eastern Marjah in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher M. Carroll, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
03/06/2011 - From left, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Liji Sui, Sgt. Richard West and Lance Cpl. Kirby Salmans, all with Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 8, prepare to fire a 120mm mortar at Combat Outpost Ouellette, Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 6, 2011. This was the first time the new Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System's Ballistic Computer 11 software was used in the field. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (DoD photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bryce Piper, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
03/15/2011 - U.S. Navy Chief Naval Air Crewman Steven Sinclair, left, assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4, currently embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), hugs a Japanese citizen March 15, 2011, after delivering humanitarian aid supplies to a coastal Japanese city affected by the tsunami caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in northern Japan. Ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Strike Group were conducting search and rescue operations and resupply missions throughout northern Japan’s affected areas in support of Operation Tomodachi. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kevin B. Gray, U.S. Navy /Released)
03/14/2011 - U.S. Marines with the Chemical, Biological Incident Response Force transport a simulated nuclear blast victim during Vibrant Response 11.1 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Butlerville, Ind., March 14, 2011. Vibrant Response is a U.S. Northern Command-sponsored field training exercise for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management forces designed to improve their ability to respond to catastrophic incidents. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Brad Staggs, U.S. Army/Released)
03/15/2011 - U.S. Navy Equipment Operator 3rd Class John Guillen-Agudero, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 28, and Marine Corps Sgt. Peter Lawrence, assigned to 2nd Marine Logistics Group, dig a ditch at Escuela Rosario Carias during a Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2011 subject matter expert exchange in San Lorenzo, Honduras, Mar. 15, 2011. SPS is an annual deployment of U.S. ships to the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility in the Caribbean and Latin America. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jeffery Tilghman Williams, U.S. Navy/Released)
I'd sure as heck hate to have to hump that bastige. I see it has wheels, but that don't mean there's gonna be a truck available to tow it every time it needs moved.