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(33,643 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)a kennedy
(29,673 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Much less food...
Aristus
(66,388 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)But in a normal world....
Aristus
(66,388 posts)I confess there is a certain beauty in tanks that non-tankers might never understand.
For me, it's the fact that, in a tank's design, form always follows function. Always. There's a kind of beauty in that.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Holding a handgun is a strange and powerful moment. To me anyway.
Lots of liberals own guns. Pukes just need to fight non-issues.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Once you've fired a 120mm smoothbore Rheinmetall tank gun, nothing else satisfies...
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)and what's a nice Army guy like you doing showing us all these Marine Corps hummers? (How do we know? I never saw an Army hummer with a deepwater fording kit on it, and it's standard on Marine hummers.)
Aristus
(66,388 posts)It didn't occur to me to observe Army pride. I just needed a pic of eight Hummers, or two pics of four Hummers. And I needed them fast. My old Army buddies would be pissed if they knew...
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)BTW how many Hummers does an armor company have? Serious question.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)One each for the CO and the XO. There may have been a third one for headquarters platoon, but I can't remember.
An armored company has fourteen tanks. Three platoons of four tanks each, and the two headquarters tanks (The CO and the XO again.) Tanks, I know...
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)And for a while, I was the only guy who could drive it.
I kept getting tagged for taking the deuce-and-a-half back to the motor pool, or out to fetch something with it, because I had '2 1/2 ton' on my military driver's license. After a while, I thought: "Does nobody have a license for this but me?"
Nobody else would admit it they were licensed, too; tankers are bastards...
Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Well only quarantine ever...But its good one!!!
sarge43
(28,941 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)We dont have crows here. But we do have two kinds of vultures and giant grackles that act like crows.