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Raining Humvees in Germany

andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
edited April 2016 in General Discussion
I don't know who screwed up, Army or Air Force, but it was raining humvees in Germany when several did NOT come down slowly by parachute.[:D] They took the express route to the ground. The Army observers videoing the event actually did seem to be pretty amused. [:D][:D] There's not much left when a humvee augers in at terminal velocity. [;)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmpL2XJ6qM
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    WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    Don't know if I was more PO'd that a few $100k in tax dollars went down the toilet or that the soldiers thought it was funny.
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    fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    That story is WEEKS old man..
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    andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just read about it tonight on military.com. Didn't see it on the other news sites. Still, an interesting report. I did see an M551 Sheridan that took the big nose dive once. It would have taken a whole roll of duct tape and a case of Rustoleum to fix that baby. [:D]
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    dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,543 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Soldiers like anything that can break the mundane day to day life.
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    DPHMINDPHMIN Member Posts: 908 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't they have a better way to deliver Humvees than by parachutes? That method seems to be asking for trouble.
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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,064 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ya know if they charged the person that chained it down to the carrier for the cost of the Humvee there would be less of that happening.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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    wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,204 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Military intelligence. At it again.[:o)]
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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,064 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wpage
    Military intelligence. At it again.[:o)]


    Is that part of the Department of Redundancy Department?
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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    v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They've been dropping big stuff from airplanes even almost at ground level, probably since WW2.
    There's no excuse for this crap.
    Someone needs to be court martialed at the decision making level' not the indians who are just following orders.
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    medic07medic07 Member Posts: 5,222 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Parachute Riggers did their jobs. Drogue chute deploys fine and then the three mains deploy and quickly fill.

    I would say the Logistics guys who palletized them and the Loadmasters who safety check them before loading and prior to green light screwed the pooch. I find it hard to imagine they did not see some movement of the chains and binders while they were enroute to the drop zone.
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    TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,560 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Someone should be looking for a new job and his paycheck will be short for years
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    guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well we may have bought the rigging from China.
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