Pictures that make you groan

[Wolfdog91]

Ever just been looking though pictures and just come across one that make you go " o...yeah remember this ...uuuuuuughhhhhhhh " lol ? Yeah was flipping though my Google photos back up thingy and came across this.... Remember it well. 30+ hours no sleep just a bunch of specialists and PFCs who never rehooked track on anything by our selves bigger then a 113.....o fun fun fun
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[sparky45]

The ultimate flat tire change.:holysheep

[contender1]

While I was aviation, I was at Ft. Hood with the 1st Cav & the 2nd D. I saw a LOT of track vehicles,, and saw such stuff. I wince at your pain. Luckily,, I never had to endure such stuff like replacing a track.

[shell70634]

That's why I chose leg infantry vs mech infantry

[waksupi]

Should have called AAA!

[Winger Ed.]

Hmmm. And I'd thought hanging CH-46 rotor blades on the Flight Line by hand was hard.

Thanks for posting that. I feel much better now.:bigsmyl2:

[Dio]

Drooling biden and chlamydia harris make me groan

[1Hawkeye]

I have a re enacting friend who was retired army. Tim graduated from the citadel, then ranger school after his first tour as a green in country ranger didn't go so well (he had a run in with a actual tiger ) Tim decided to transfer to armor thinking a tiger can't get in a tank. Then after the vietnam war he was an instructor at west point for 15 years then retired from the pentagon after putting in his 30 years. But anyhow one of the few things Tim said about vietnam was "you haven't lived till youv'e replaced a track under fire" apparently his unit had one tank that every time the poop hit the fan would drop a track and they didn't have a heavy wrecker they did it with manpower and another tank.

[Electrod47]

Threw the track on my M60A1 in fairly decent weather while on border patrol Czechoslovakia in 67. My best buddy was the crew chief of the M88 ARV that came and helped. Later in the bitter winter of 67-68 in the same region we blew our pack. My buddy show's up again with a crated pack that we change it out in the field, at night, and in subzero weather. He said, " Quit callin me!! with your problems with Charlie 24."
Ahhh the good old days. Why do I miss it?.

[RKJ]

Yep. I remember those days. I spent 3 years at Knox with the 2nd/6th Cav (45R/45P Turret Mech) saw the tank crews change the tracks out a lot. Luckily being a REMF never had to do it. I saw the light and got out but decided to try the NAV 5 years later. had to do 2 boot camps and 3 ships but had a good career.

[Half Dog]

Yeah. Gas in the summer time.

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[WRideout]

My battalion from Santa Barbara CA went to Firex 88 at Dugway Utah; a corps level artillery exercise. I was the S4, a lieutenant at the time, responsible for all the logistical stuff. Somewhere in the orders for the exercise it said that all vehicles sent by rail car need to have keys to get them off and parked. When our tracked vehicles arrived without keys, the receiving crew simply cut the locks off with the master key. Upon our arrival, we found that someone had taken an M88 recovery vehicle for a joy ride, and thrown a track. We never got it fixed until it was time to go home. Live and learn.

Wayne

[starbits]

The M88 is a beast. Once saw one pulling an APC with frozen tracks down a dirt road at 30 mph.

[Finster101]

Oh lordy day! That ain't fun. Can't find my picture of an M-60 in my troop buried in the mud up to the top of the tracks. Took three M-88s and a lot of digging to break the suction and get it out. Good times indeed.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

It's worse if you have to do it in the snow.

DG

[Land Owner]

When texting and bad driving meet, a normal day on the highway turns into hell on Earth:

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[Finster101]

It's worse if you have to do it in the snow.

DG


Even worse than that is in a German field shortly after the "honey wagon".

[Rick Hodges]

My brother in law was a tank commander in the late 60's in W. Germany. He tells the tale of winter exercises in the field and "arranging" to throw a track on his M-60 near a village. Seems like they could skip a couple of miserable days in the field while repairing the track, meet up with his unit as hero's after fixing it themselves. While fixing the track they partook of the warm village restaurants and housing instead of freezing their collective butts off. I know nothing of tracked vehicles but he said you could throw a track almost at will.

[Bmi48219]

My brother drove tanks in SE Asia. Throwing a track was the best the best possible scenario after running over an unexploded US bomb that had been repurposed as an IED by VC. M-117s crews had it a lot worse.

[metricmonkeywrench]

that's an easy day, flat surface, everything in line no mud or rain in sight.... Trade you and yes this was a recovery variant as well

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