Something very similar happened in Mannhiem, Germany back when I just got there. A fella in Armored got a Dear John letter from his girlfriend back in the states. So, he went on a rampage after taking an M60 tank from the motor pool. He tried to sign out a firing pin for its 105mm main gun. That alone should have set off some flags, but didn't. What got everyone's attention was when he plowed through the gates and headed towards downtown Mannheim. Gosh did he do some damage. He crushed everything in site. What screwed him up was the Polizei blocking the end of the bridge that he was on over the Rhein Neckar River in their Audis, as though they would have stopped him. So, he tried to spin the tank around on the bridge and go the other way, went through the concrete side rail, and over, drowning. To see that thing lifted out of the water was something else.
When I was at Ft. Hood, some fellas on manuvers forded the river there on base in an M60 and its snorkel wasn't fastened properly. They didn't know it until the turret went under water, filling quickly as the must have freaked out and didn't reverse, just kept moving forward, deeper. That's the first time I saw an M60 lifted out of the water, by an M88 tank recovery vehicle, the 3 man crew's bodies still inside.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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