The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, September 11, 2023
Memes that made me laugh 176
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
My former USMC son tells the story of driving a Humvee in Iraq into quicksand. They drove a 7 ton truck in to get his Humvee out and got stuck. Then a Abrams tank drove in to get the 7 ton truck out and got stuck. Then they went and got a tank retriever which has a crane that can lift an Abrams out without getting in the muck. This process took a day or three to fix.
I was a US Army photojournalists in the mud and muck of Ft. Stewart, GA, also known as “20 square miles of the Okeefenokee Swamp avoided by anyone with sense.” How swampy was it? On one exercise I photographed a 53-ton M60A3 tank sunk to the turret in the muck. A second tank was sent to tow it out, and promptly sank next to it. So a tank wrecker was sent in – and sank. Cooler heads then prevailed and put a stop to things before an entire battalion was down there. They ended up waiting until spring ended and the mud dried up some to dig all those tanks out.
5 comments:
There's stuck.
Then there's Army stuck.
Then there's Russian Army stuck.
There's stuck.
Then there's Army stuck.
Then there's Russian Army stuck.
And finally there's Ukrainian Army stuck.
:P
My thoughts exactly Aesop.
“There is stuck and then there is Army stuck”
My former USMC son tells the story of driving a Humvee in Iraq into quicksand. They drove a 7 ton truck in to get his Humvee out and got stuck. Then a Abrams tank drove in to get the 7 ton truck out and got stuck. Then they went and got a tank retriever which has a crane that can lift an Abrams out without getting in the muck. This process took a day or three to fix.
I was a US Army photojournalists in the mud and muck of Ft. Stewart, GA, also known as “20 square miles of the Okeefenokee Swamp avoided by anyone with sense.” How swampy was it? On one exercise I photographed a 53-ton M60A3 tank sunk to the turret in the muck. A second tank was sent to tow it out, and promptly sank next to it. So a tank wrecker was sent in – and sank. Cooler heads then prevailed and put a stop to things before an entire battalion was down there. They ended up waiting until spring ended and the mud dried up some to dig all those tanks out.
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