Re: Jay Leno doesn't have any tractors in his garage

Posted by Mark - IN. on March 03, 2014 at 15:56:36 from (98.215.76.204):

In Reply to: Re: Jay Leno doesn't have any tractors in his garage posted by oldtanker on March 03, 2014 at 05:58:46:

Speaking of M1s, I was stationed at Ft. Hood when they and the Bradley were just starting to replace the M60A3 and the M113 APC. At that same time, the Dodge M880s were being replaced by Chevy CUCV pickups, and Blazers were replacing the M151 Jeeps. Ft. Hood was broken down into dour zones, A, B, C, and D. Artillary used to either practice from firing live rounds from A to C, or B to D. I forget, and the other two zones were used for other things like radio communication shots, and whatever else. So another guy and myself decided to take one of the M151 Jeeps out and just trash it because it was just about to be retired and cutting torched into scrap. And besides, since they had four wheel independent suspension, it was rumored that if one lifted off the ground high enough, the tires would fold under it. OK, we wanted to find out about that too. So there we were like Rat Patrol out there on a range hitting the desert like racing the BAHA. I don't remember which of us was driving, but we were out in an active range with live artillary, but on the firing end, not recieving end. I remember looking to my left and right an had two M1s running parallel to us on both sides a hundred or so feet away, with their gun turrets trained right on us. We were looking down the barrels of I forget, 105mm? I'm sure they were bigger than 70mm. I think they 105s. Anyway, those M1s kept right up with us, and their turrets didn't move up or down much, and neither did their guns. They were just playing with us, and I'm certain were using us to do some testing of their chassis as well. They were brand new, and without knowing it, we unwittingly became their guinea pigs. We kept it up a little bit, hit the brakes, waved off and got out of there and limped back to garrison with something in the running gear broken, and no the tires didn't fold under it like we heard would happen because we got airborne a few times, which is how we broke whatever we broke. One less piece for a torch to cut in two. And there was the time when we did similar and had a Cobra doing similar, but just over the tree tops. In that case though, pictures got sent back to our Battalion Commnader that then worked their way down to us. We didn't get into any real trouble though. Our NCOIC pulled us off to the side and suggested that we cool it, so to speak.

Back in the good old days. Grin.

Mark

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