Military Hummers Don't Make The Cut

[CRASH]

Unless you've swapped AMADs while in-flight, you're a pansy.

 

[IH8RDS]

You still in?

 

[IH8RDS]

Unless you've swapped AMADs while in-flight, you're a pansy.

I agree

 

[xjcrawlr]

I've been out since Apr 15, 1996.






I best decision I ever made was to join the Air Force,

the second best decision I ever made was getting out! :laugh3:


I was from Las Vegas, NV and I joined the AF to see the world, go over seas, or at least across the country. I had code 88 on my dream sheet, anywhere, world wide, long or short tour. They sent me to Luke AFB, AZ...300 miles from home, at the other end of the same desert! I didn't even get a change in climate! And because I was in a critical career field, no PCS for me was in sight.

 

[XTrmXJ]

I had a two hour ride in a 16. We could only pull 7.5G because of or external tanks. NOTHING compares to it.

Most ive done was 9.8Gs We over G'd the 15 that time

 

[XTrmXJ]

Swapped out an ADG in 5 hours in vegas. Thats including the run and leak check.

DO you mean the IDG?

 

[XTrmXJ]

Unless you've swapped AMADs while in-flight, you're a pansy.

Dam you got me

 

[Lou]

Hummers are overrated.

Get your ass in gear.

 

[Darky]

I spent 6 months in Kandahar, 130 in the day, 50 at night. One of 100 Marines on an Army base populated by 5000 soldiers and airmen. When we aarrived they all thought they were in trouble because, Oh no, the Marines are back! Thought there was intel about a big attack or something coming. They certainly were relieved to hear we were comm guys. The Army was afraid our 59 radar was too powerful and might set off the Hellfires on the Apaches, so they stuck us way out at the end of the base. Big ol radar with one bunker and a tower with a couple Canadians in it to protect it. We could see the main highway from our site and could see the Afghani military's ammo dump/mini base right across from us. If the baddies had gotten in there, our radar woulda been toast, along with as much of us as they could get. Sure we had about 50 Marines out there each with an M-16 and 25 or so officers with 9mms, plus the Canadians with FLIR scopes on their M-16s, as well as our stash of light and medium machines (M249 SAWs and M240Gs) but there were tanks in there and they generally carried RPGs too...

Anyways, Our HMMWVs didn't have much trouble with the original 37" Goodyears. It was Spain's donated Mercedes van (think new Dodge Sprinter van) that we got stuck in all the time...The ops officers said you had to be an NCO to drive it (which left 3 guys from my shop and there entire shop as able to drive. But they got it stuck on a weekly basis cuttin thru somewhere they shouldn't. No one from our shop ever had a problem...

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

I enjoy hearing how crappy the HMMWV's perform in Afghanistan from civvies that have never ridden in one or ever been outside the big PX...

objective and concise intel indeed...

 

[IH8RDS]

DO you mean the IDG?

Nope... Accessory Drive Gearbox

 

[IH8RDS]

I enjoy hearing how crappy the HMMWV's perform in Afghanistan from civvies that have never ridden in one or ever been outside the big PX...

objective and concise intel indeed...

Dont you mean BX.... LOL

 

[xjcrawlr]

I enjoy hearing how crappy the HMMWV's perform in Afghanistan

Have YOU been there?


Granted I was a there as a civilian contractor. But how did you think I got to the FFB's? I certainly didn't walk. I was only stating earlier that the HMMWV's we used were outfitted with swampers to work better on the roads the hummers would actually fit on.

 

[xjcrawlr]

Oh...




and the BX at Bagram is about the size of a Wendy's.

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Oh...




and the BX at Bagram is about the size of a Wendy's.

The PX/BX in Honduras back in '88 was the back of a local's pick-up...

And no...

I've never been inside Afghan borders... I think...

My comment was specifically geared towards people that have NEVER ridden in a HMMWV over any crappy terrain that read a "report" and then criticize it for not going where a mule can go...

These are the same type of people that moaned about how the Apache's couldn't perform in a sandstorm during GW-I...

Same people that complained about m16's being crap compared to their M14's...

Equipment performance/survival in hostile environments is always an ongoing challenge for the R & D community.

I remember when they exchanged my 1911 for a Beretta...

No comment on that one!

 

[ECKSJAY]

I remember when they exchanged my 1911 for a Beretta...

No comment on that one!

I will then. Should have kept the 1911 but made it double-stack and issued frangible ammunition.

I uhh, loved my Beretta. :wierd:

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

I will then. Should have kept the 1911 but made it double-stack and issued frangible ammunition.

I uhh, loved my Beretta. :wierd:

Para-Ordnance P-14's for everyone...!

I would've "settled" for an HK .45 tho...

 

[ECKSJAY]

Para-Ordnance P-14's for everyone...!

I would've "settled" for an HK .45 tho...

Concur. Though a .40 wouldn't have hurt my feelings either.

 

[IH8RDS]

The PX/BX in Honduras back in '88 was the back of a local's pick-up...

In Al Jabber, Kuwait 94ish the BX rolled up once a week in a beat up bread truck from Camp Doha.

 

[Darky]

Dont you mean BX.... LOL

Depends on the service. We Marines couldn't make up our minds. We call em PX's or MCX's