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Viewer warning, not all depicted humvees survive.
This was worth it just to hear the raucous laughter:
 
Why is this marked NA. I'm pretty sure those came from together from an airplane


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Technically they didn't come from together from an airplane. They came from an airplane. They then proceeded to come from together upon impact with the ground.
 
yep, it happens.
we lost a couple 2 1/2 ton trucks and a backhoe in my 3 yrs there.
 
Looks like a pretty high failure rate to me, our tax dollars at work and they say the military needs more money?
 
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No I didn't come up with this. Was posted as a comment on jalopnik.
 
Getonit said:
Looks like a pretty high failure rate to me, our tax dollars at work and they say the military needs more money?
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No kidding


Happy tax day!
 
It looks like they are all dropping in to the water, am I missing something?
 
Battalion commander has some Humvees that aren't supposed to be on his books. Tells the rigger he won't lose sleep if these 3 happen to meet an "untimely death." Problem solved.;)
 
Velocity173 said:
Battalion commander has some Humvees that aren't supposed to be on his books. Tells the rigger he won't lose sleep if these 3 happen to meet an "untimely death." Problem solved.;)
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Go to any government surplus auction site and there'll be lots of Hummers on the block for pennies of what they cost. The army is divesting itself of hummers and acquiring the replacement vehicle, whatever its called. I doubt three wrecked hummers will cause any big stink other than for the riggers who didn't do their job correctly. Heck, it might have been one team of riggers that made the same mistake(s) three times.
 
Sac Arrow said:
It looks like they are all dropping in to the water, am I missing something?
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The "splashes" you're seeing appear to be dust and presumably Humvee parts. Watch how they drift in the wind. I don't see any water; it looks like a dry grassy meadow.
 
What gets me is how gleeful the guy laughing on the video seems to be as tons of US tax dollars crash to the ground. Disgusting.
 
SkyDog58 said:
What gets me is how gleeful the guy laughing on the video seems to be as tons of US tax dollars crash to the ground. Disgusting.
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I'm pretty sure three humvees don't quite equate to "tons of US tax dollars" I'm sure the jetA they used to get them there cost much much more.
 
I chalk that laughter up to 'odd military humor'. Nobody got hurt, that's what counts. 3 less to sell at auction for $8k.
 
SkyDog58 said:
What gets me is how gleeful the guy laughing on the video seems to be as tons of US tax dollars crash to the ground. Disgusting.
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They are in the military...I am sure they are accustomed and numb to seeing tax dollars wasted every day.
 
SkyDog58 said:
What gets me is how gleeful the guy laughing on the video seems to be as tons of US tax dollars crash to the ground. Disgusting.
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I can assure you that it is more disbelief than the humor of it all. I've cracked up watching tank main gun rounds fly outside of the range limits and over a hill not because I thought it was funny but because I was thankful that it wasn't me and I knew the "suck" that we were all going to endure because of this mistake.
 
Yeah, that's the "I can't believe how much these idiots are screwing up" laugh.

Better to figure out who the screw ups are in training exercises now, than under fire, when you actually need the things being dropped, up on the line.

Or just to get to the line without humping all the gear for miles and miles when time is of the essence and enemy reinforcements or replacements are on the way.

Or figure out now if the supply chain got some bad gear or mis-packed chutes, before it kills somebody.

Still be a bunch of folks get un-sats in their jackets for that one.

In the real ****, mis-rigging something can be a death sentence for your buddies who didn't get to ride inside it and got to be exposed on foot.
 
Sumbody fuc up! :eek:

Boy you in a heap of trouble!
 
red4golf said:
I can assure you that it is more disbelief than the humor of it all. I've cracked up watching tank main gun rounds fly outside of the range limits and over a hill not because I thought it was funny but because I was thankful that it wasn't me and I knew the "suck" that we were all going to endure because of this mistake.
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Yeah, one time at NTC an Abrams got a sabot through the engine compartment during a live fire exercise. Thankfully the crew was okay.
 
Witmo said:
Go to any government surplus auction site and there'll be lots of Hummers on the block for pennies of what they cost. The army is divesting itself of hummers and acquiring the replacement vehicle, whatever its called. I doubt three wrecked hummers will cause any big stink other than for the riggers who didn't do their job correctly. Heck, it might have been one team of riggers that made the same mistake(s) three times.
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The new HMMWV is the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle or JLTV. It's anything but light, though...
 
Sac Arrow said:
Yeah, one time at NTC an Abrams got a sabot through the engine compartment during a live fire exercise. Thankfully the crew was okay.
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I believe it. 20 years on tanks and even though I cuss it from time to time it is still the best job I've ever had. Now they are forcing me off of the Abrams and on to a Stryker. Not happy....

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No one was hurt or died. The guy laughing didn't screw up, someone else did. The amount of tax dollars lost and its affect on unit readiness, isn't even worth bringing up.

We left so much crap in Iraq for the Iraqi military / civilians, makes this loss look like pennies. I just hope the Iraqi kid sleeping in my bunk right now put a healthy amount of Febreze on it!:D
 
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Soldier64 said:
On a more serious note somebody needs to call the PBO because everything I was missing on my shortage annex was in those trucks!
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Abso-freakin-lutely!

And most people would not believe how much stuff goes sideways in airborne ops (stuff lost and people hurt). I out on the DZ more than once looking for lost weapons, M16's and crew served. Sometimes they never get found. Its hard to find stuff that falls from 800+ ft into soft soil.
 
Soldier64 said:
On a more serious note somebody needs to call the PBO because everything I was missing on my shortage annex was in those trucks!
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No $**t. Returning from Desert Storm, our sister unit had two conexes disappear. Anything which came up missing for the next year was written off under them...you couldn't have stuffed all their shortages in ten conexes. It became comical.

Velocity173 said:
No one was hurt or died. The guy laughing didn't screw up, someone else did. The amount of tax dollars lost and its affect on unit readiness, isn't even worth bringing up.
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That was my exact reaction to the guy laughing so hard. It wasn't him to was going to have to answer...and he probably didn't have a HMMWV to ride in anyway. He found it funny someone else was going to have to travel via LPCs. I admit, I kinda gotta chuckle out of it. Much the same as my unit hooping and hollaring when we performed direct fire missions with 155mm howitzer on Gamma Goat "trucks". Blew them all to hell and we loved every second of it.
 
I, uhhh, might/might have been involved in a couple (a few. . .O.K., a bunch) of tactical airdrops in which a slight rigging mistake could have been the cause of some material losses by our brothers in the Army . . . there was a Gamma Goat that was somewhat compressed (about two feet tall), after hitting level, but at an "enhanced rate of descent". Maybe one or two (or three or four) other vehicles that were practical experiments in Newtonian physics, as well. And yeah, we laughed pretty hard, too, since we didn't do the rigging. . .

The LAPES malfunction wasn't nearly as funny. . .
 
I can't get that cerebral about it. If no one is hurt, it's funny as hell!
(its more in the realm of unintentional 'lets blow some s hit up!'
 
Sundancer said:
I, uhhh, might/might have been involved in a couple (a few. . .O.K., a bunch) of tactical airdrops in which a slight rigging mistake could have been the cause of some material losses by our brothers in the Army . . . there was a Gamma Goat that was somewhat compressed (about two feet tall), after hitting level, but at an "enhanced rate of descent". Maybe one or two (or three or four) other vehicles that were practical experiments in Newtonian physics, as well. And yeah, we laughed pretty hard, too, since we didn't do the rigging. . .

The LAPES malfunction wasn't nearly as funny. . .
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that CAPEX crash was a couple years before me. I knew some guys there though. what a cluster f&*). Freakin AF. I once saw 3 of them in the cockpit pointing this way and that with a Ft Bragg topo map trying to find the DZ. we were already 10-15 min past TOT. Now the DZ's on Bragg are huge. think 1km+ x 4km empty squares in the middle of solid pine forest. yet they still managed to not find them and even worse, drop guys on the wrong DZ.

Getting stuck rigging HMMVS and other Engineer equipment at green ramp usually sucked. But watching one burn in was amusing. We had a deuce and a half that ended up about 2-3 tall. The wheels turned horizontal. They hauled it to the demo range and we got to blow parts off of it. That was awesome fun. Metal cutting C4 on the frame, blowing the engine block around.

Good training....:D
 
The LAPES malfunction rate was really high back in the day - something like 25%, if I recall. It was fairly dangerous, and everyone took it seriously. But "normal" airdrop malfunctions (on the load, not the extraction!) were kinda routine. There was a cluster-f** in the 80's at a Gallant Eagle, when a bunch of paratroopers got hurt, with high winds on the DZ. The back story I heard was Army measured the winds in the lee of some hills, and was also anxious to have the drop come off, as they had elected VIPs watching. No idea if that's accurate, or not, but we felt pretty crappy seeing those kids in casts and such back at March AFB, after the fact.

It was an insane way to make a living, and that's why youngsters do those jobs, like jumping out, or flying at 300' AGL in a C-130.
 
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