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Fame at last
This morning the KFOG morning show admitted they had made a screw-up. They started a contest a week early. They then started asking Fogheads to call in with their work-related screw ups. I called in about the time I was in a track that we managed to sink in a swamp.
They played it, and I have now received three emails and one IM asking if that was, in fact me. It was, and no, I didn't win anything.
They played it, and I have now received three emails and one IM asking if that was, in fact me. It was, and no, I didn't win anything.
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Me, I got a Hummer Ambulance stuck frame-deep in Muskeg in Alska one time with an unauthorized shortcut. They tried to pull it with another HMMWV, a Duece-and-a-half, and finally got it out with a 5-ton wrecker using the winch off the back to lift it and then pull it.
I was seriously sweating it. Surprised as Hell when no one brought it up for a week. So, dumb as a rock, I asked my Platoon Sergeant.
He grins and pulls out a packet of photos from a desk drawer...
Turns out, about 2 weeks before I arrived (a month before I got stuck) the Troop was on FTX. At one point, they were lined up in a woodline looking at a wide, open field and were going to move across on line.
Halfway accross, it turned into Muskeg.
(For those of you who don't know... Muskeg is water-logged soil where the water is caught between the surface and the permafrost. Looks normal, maybe a bit greener...)
The entire Troop got stuck.
So, they called the engineers, brought the only dozer on post that was running.
And got the Dozer stuck!
Finally, they contracted two civilian Dozers, tied the other Dozer in with tow-cables and slowly extracted the Troop.
That was why I didn't get busted...
Then again, the Scout Hummer crew that missed the ford and submerged carrying a complete TOW set (Thermal sights and all) and probably a half-a-million dollars in electronics (PEW's, Radios, Laser Designator, Hand-held thermals, NBC Alarms, other NOD's...)did end up paying...
*smirk*
Then again, I won't mention the Howitzer crew that beat a live 155 round out of the tube with a flat-faced ramming staff...
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Then again, I won't mention the Howitzer crew that beat a live 155 round out of the tube with a flat-faced ramming staff...
That story got blown all out of proporation.
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Almost...
When they finally got the round out of the bore and realized it wasn't the Bell-Rammer and the fuze was practically mashed flat...
...The pucker factor was incredible.
Someday, whoever does the de-militarization of the NTC's gonna' find a mashed flat M732 PD Fuze in one place...
...and a fired, live 155mm HE round fitted with the shipping plug (AKA "Point-Detonating Ring Fuze...") in the fuze well buried 50-150 feet below the Mojave's surface somewhere else.
*smirk*