Just curious,what 50 ton vehicle were you driving through sand?And how did that give you blood clots?
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10 ton HEMMTT, towing a 40 ton PATRIOT radar. I was the Radar Crew Chief of the only PATRIOT radar to ever get hit by an anti-radiation missile. E-5/52 ADA. First 24 hours we musta got stuck about 30 times, not counting the ones I was able to bounce us out of - picture the front 4 tires bouncing about a foot off the ground. Low transfer, inter-axle differential lock on, low gear, we're 8x8, foot flat on the floor, doing 22 kph MAX. That sucker'd hit a deep patch of soft sand and slow to about 2kph, then start bouncing. If the pocket wasn't too long, I could bounce the truck through it. Did lose one hub cap, though. Had to cut an MRE package lengthwise down the sides, hundred mile an hour tape it to the bottom of the hub sticking out, fill it with axle grease, then close it like a clamshell over the top of the hub and hundred mile an hour tape it again. Lasted 3 weeks like that.
In 1999, I had an 80 pound table fall on my left calf in training, which left me with 2 blood clots. One in the popliteal vein, one in the deep femoral vein/artery, whatever it is. After they determined I had no predisposition to clotting, they took me off the coumadin after a year and let me stay in with a permanent profile against running and jumping (either can kill me). When we got the call to go ramp up in Kuwait, I #### sure wasn't letting my soldiers go without me. I skated throught the med screening without a problem because the unit medics knew me. The first four days of the invasion were what got me. We only got out of the trucks to pull security, PMCS, take a leak or wait for a battle to finish up ahead. We were at the tail end of the 3rd ID's 3rd Bde. Combat Team. Four days straight in the truck and/or all the bouncing I did with it caused my 3rd clot & ended my career. I did make it to the end of the PATRIOT mission before I couldn't hardly walk anymore, though. My soldiers finally talked me into going to the medics. The docs at the CSH about went ape*%^, "What are you doing here with blood clots in your leg!?!!?" It also kept me from going to work for Raytheon as a PATRIOT rep, driving a truck or going into LE or corrections (all the stuff I wanted to do). #### the luck. Suck it up & drive on. -
I was there from sep 05-06.We did alot of 915 and PLS missions.Until KBR took most of our trucks lol.We always pulled our own loads and did our own guntruck security from day one.After they took most of our trucks we were pretty much an escort company then.I am still new to trucking,but I have seen idle air before.I dont uppose if I brought a lap top with me I could get internet off that??
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I was in B 1-7 ada the hemmet I had road like a buck board with the radar on back. Owell Ya know I miss working on the radar. But sure don't miss playing in the sand box. I run my laptop of idelair all the time. Great service on there network
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Iraqvet- Our ethernet costs 2.95 per visit for gold members and 4.00 per visit for silver members. A visit is whatever amount of time you have the basic services turned on - could be an hour, could be 10 days (that would be kind of expensive, though). The basic service is 2.18 per hour plus tax for silver members and 1.85 per hour plus tax for gold members, and includes 20 channels of satelite TV, heat/AC, local/800/911/incoming phone service, 4 inside and 2 outside 120 vac outlets and touchscreen internet. A gold membership costs $10 for a six month membership. The crap ya'll had to deal with during the occupation has been a lot worse than what we had to deal with in the opening days/months.
Sandman- Was B 1-7 one of the 3 that went into Iraq? I know ours (E-5/52) and A-5/52 went into Iraq, and I think the other one that went in was supporting a marine expeditionary force. The wife of one of my soldiers was an E-6 in that battery. His name was Malcolm, but I think hers might have been different, I don't remember for sure. -
Yeah,the bases look like those of back home lol.Its pretty garreson on the bases.The only thing that isnt easier is the missions for us 88M's.No one even knew what an IED was till they started usin them like 4 months in.I would have rather been on the first push.I will take a gun fight over and IED any day lol.When I was there IEDs' were the number 1 killer.We pretty much got hit every convoy...Thank god EOD came along the last few months we were there.
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When the invasion started, there weren't many bases that looked anything like garrison, although they all had MWR tents w/ gyms and AAFES trailers. I wouldn't have wanted to see any of those IEDs. Hell, where I was at, behind the entire 3rd ID's 3rd BCT, we didn't even see any dead bodies - they had them all cleaned up before we got that far. We could see the lights ahead & hear and feel the artillery & other big rounds, but that was it.
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