military driving

had shots fired while hooking to a vehicle, no real threat. worse so far was RPG to my fuel tank, blew it clean off and rocked me over into a ditch. stood on top of the fuel pedal and managed to make it out the ditch into a field and onto a berm not 50m away before she choked on me. ended up getting a fuel can from one of the gun trucks and using hydraulic line as fuel line to make it back to base after winched another truck off the edge of a cliff a few km down the road.

 

LOL Thats some good stuff right there. I enjoyed the hell out of my last 4 years in the Corp. Its time for me to move on to better and not so dangerous things. I have tried my luck and I think it has about ran out. So onto drivin a big truck again. 10-4

 

Because it was a rental tractor from Ryder.

 

Hey a fellow H8.i love my M984R1A2.Hauls the piss out of anything,i completly destroyed my old M936A2 in Iraq,totally under powered.I had to haul on numerous occasions M931A2 tractors with M967 tankers full of fuel..let me say the wrecker reallllllly didnt move well,bu i had no other options,back in 03 is was ghetto style,no armor,our gun trucks were M818's with 50 cals..The 50's were splittin the cabs by the doors and they would randomly fly open...lol

 

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Speaking of getting pulled over...

I was in Ft.Carson and some yahoo stole a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer and drove out the front gate. (It looks like a tank to those who do not know them) The Colorado State patrol followed it down the interstate until it ran out of fuel. The news lady asked the lead patrol man. "Why didn't you stop him?" The trooper looked back at the big tracked vehicle with the giant cannon on it and said, "Are you kidding?!?!" That was the talk of the base for months.

 

What, do you want me to throw stop sticks at it? Shoot out its tires?

I am armed, but not with an RPG!

 

wow.

as far as going around the scales... yes any military vehicle is exempt from obeying state laws. any federal highway is good ole uncle sam's property, the local police are ALLOWED to patrol it. that being said, I've had a marine on my truck who has actually had a locked and ####ed m16 pointed at a trooper, safety off, finger on the trigger, while the hummers with 40s were ####ing theirs and getting into firing positions... lots of sensitive material on that load. actually, if my military law is correct, a trooper cannot even pull over a convoy as it would be interfering with a government operation, big no-no. at that point the convoy leader can actually take the offending party into custody and put him in the stockade at the destination.... there are other loads that cannot be stopped at a scale, FEMA loads come to mind. I've heard other events where a trooper was trying to have his way with a load escorted by the secret service (space shuttle parts) and he wound up handcuffed to his squad car in a desert somewhere... then the one in the trucker mag not too long ago. truck with gov't load, full of tomahawk missiles. cop bust the seals, opens the rig, then gets swarmed by a bunch of commandos with SAWs. lets face it, the one thing that these cops seem to forget is that there is always a bigger fish!

glad you guys made it back, thanks for defending my country. all my support.