It's a big one, though, with all types of army words on its.
Posted on 10/25/2018 6:28:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Was it parachuted or was it “airmailed”?
I flew Hueys in Vietnam & did slingloads. Learned to follow rather than fight the load as it oscillated. Those who fought the load ended up “airmailing” it as the arc got wider and wider.
Aircraft structural bolts are supposed to be torqued & safety wired. Loose bolts & parts are securely stored lest they become FOD (foreign object damage), especially in hangars & on taxiways.
Anyway, somebody got a `bolt from the blue’.
Yep, a comma would have clarified that.
“A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely, over a neighborhood in Harnett County...”
Now that’s funny right there
No above ground pool was harmed.
[I have read that if a package gets delivered to you on your property, you get to keep it for free.]
Yep, wheel it into the garage and close the door. Stand outside and whistle.
When I was a kid, my parent’s property was near DeFuniak Springs and also the Eglin AFB reservation.
Sometimes roaming through their woods, I would see strips of aluminum foil like material. Sometimes it would be in clumps and sometimes single strands.
I knew even as a kid that it was chaff for anti radar or for testing how it worked.
“They don’t have ‘spare bolts’ on aircraft...........................”
A friend of mine who was in the Air Force told me about the Jesus Bolt that was on the top of some of the Helicopters. I asked him why they called it that and he told me that if you are up in one and that bolt comes off Jesus is the next person you will see.
Unfortunately.........................
A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely, over a neighborhood in Harnett County...”
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Dropped prematurely...
Hmmm...does Planned Parenthood know of this late-term abortion?
Since the prematurely dropped was full grown is that proof of life before birth?
How close were they to a full term drop??
The LIBs will get their panties in an uproar about this.
How can you afford a new humvee?
Hey, its as easy as falling off an airplane.
If the vehicle landed on private property, I think the property owner should get to keep the Humvee.
SMH
Oh, but I never said it should come out of the taxpayers’ hide.
Take the cost of the Humvee out the budget of whomever screwed up.
I think you found the problem—and solution. My Herk experience was in EC-130Es (ABCCC), so we weren’t part of the airlift community. However, a number of our pilots, navs and flight engineers had pulled tours in “trash haulers,” and they told me an air drop was one of the most demanding missions and having the nav to keep them on course and on time was a huge plus. Ditto for the FE, who could monitor systems and let the pilots focus on flying the aircraft.
So what happened? With GPS and advanced aircraft systems, the USAF determined the navigator and flight engineer were no longer needed on J model C-130s and the C-17. So on the Globemaster III, you now have a three-person crew doing tasks once assigned to five or more, on the flight deck and in the back end. Obviously, there are a lot of things that might have caused the air drop to go awry, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the crew got off course and behind schedule—even with GPS and all those automated systems—and the HUMVEE landed off the reservation and in someone’s back yard.
On a training mission in Grafenwoehr, Germany in the 60s, I was attached to an artillery battery of towed 155 Howitzers and during the night and day, there was constant firing into the target range.
There were some rare misses, both long and short and the results were GI injuries and some times, death.
When that happened, some junior officers, took it in the shorts.
I was a Medic {or as our former President called us, a Corpse-man} and we had to do the gruesome clean up. Ugly stuff, friendly fire is not friendly.
Accidents happen, but it makes the injury or death seem worse when it is GI on GI.
No, “Minuteman”...
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