Driving In The Military

At Fort Campbell 5th Special Forces Group leases trucks and our Group Support Battalion 88 Mikes do some driving, hauling SF Teams gear and vehicles to places like Fort Bliss Texas, NTC in California and down to JTC in Louisiana. But most 88M do very little driving compared to the gentleman that post on here. We had one 88M that his job was the Colonel’s driver and the only thing he drove was a 15 passenger van and a sedan.

 

As a member of a family that has proudly served for generations, and continues to serve, my response is; How sad that your only interest is in what you can get. Members of the armed forces serve our country and their fellow citizens and are willing to put their lives on the line to protect our way of life. The benefits they receive are earned from a grateful nation and cannot begin to repay the sacrifices each and every man and woman in the military make every single day.

 

Well sir, you are not going to drive a pimped out 389 in the military. You will learn how to drive trucks with no creature comforts. If you can drive their trucks, well you will be set to drive most anything.

 

Friends don't let friends go intel.

 

@TPDoverTN - I guess you're from Dover, Tennessee. I used to deliver to some grocery store there, but can't remember the name of it. I'm from Robertson County.

 

Ask around, check the "want ads", check with temp services that hire drivers.
Places like Lowes, Home Depot, household goods movers; check them all.

 

I was a Navy hashmark E-3; does that count as intel?

 

One Uncle ran trucks in the Red Ball in France during WW2 and had the honor of a one time commendation being able to load with twice the permitted amount of gasoline jerry cans in time of battle. Being strafed and shot at a few times.

Years later he was to survive a run out after the brakes quit on him on Big Savage Grade (7 miles into Cumberland area) Quit by telegraph (50's) and took the next train home. That's the story anyway. This was with a all up 18 wheeler gasoline tanker in those days.

I might have said this once or twice. The military has done good things with trucks in some cases (No petes here...)and they are pretty capable. In the end, it's not the same as OTR work in America as a civilian. No where near it.

It's tough on one hand to have dreams and ambition as to what you want in life at 18 or wherever, but also on the other hand, it's easier to try and teach you what you don't yet know. This is not a attack or tease, there are many things I did not know at that age except one. I would be a long haul trucker. And I have been one long enough to die as one even though I cannot find a 5 dollar bill to fold between medical billing incurred by such a life. I am still happy I did it.

That in the end matters. You do what you want to do with a glad heart and a whole motivation to do it right. Or not at all.

 

"The military has done good things with trucks in some cases"

Gun Trucks
Some good stories on this site.