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  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in central North Carolina.
Posted by disastermaster on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 11:32 PM

This kind of information definitely illustrates what a moment in time (even with todays equipment) is about.

Sweet...............

Thanks.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b232/gluetank/Animated/th_1-Animated-Disastermaster.gif?t=1296616998


 https://i.imgur.com/LjRRaV1.png

 

 

 
  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:19 AM

beav

We're a just fielded battalion, the theory is that all our vehicles and equipment are either new or reclaimed.  Obviously this one was missed.

Your unit is going to get what other units at your location have that is excess to them. If I am authorized 10 water buffaloes and have 11 on hand and a new unit stands up, then the higher HQ (normally division) property book office will direct my unit to laterally transfer the extra water buffalo to your unit. Now if I have 11 and have to get rid of one, which one do you think I get rid of? I figure out which ones are best and give you the worst one I own.

Units carry excess equipment due to changes in the MTOE (like when infantry battions lost their anti-tank companies) or fielding new equipment (like when FMTVs replaced 5 tons & dueces) or a piece of equipment is damaged so heavily that it is coded out and a new piece is sent to replace it. The Army leaves a lot of the excess in place because the owning unit has to maintain and account for it, but if it was turned into an installation's excess site, it becomes subject to midnight requisitions and cannibilization for parts.

  • Member since
    March 2010
Posted by shoot&scoot on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 AM

Compared to the stuff we have here at the paper mill that thing looks factorty new!  My boss would say it's just getting broken in.

                                                                                        Pat.

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Carmel, CA
Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:13 PM

Someone did some serious masking on that Potable Water stencil

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 9:49 PM

Looks like it was reclaimed from another unit Wink

 

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  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Ft. Sill, OK
Posted by beav on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 9:28 PM

We're a just fielded battalion, the theory is that all our vehicles and equipment are either new or reclaimed.  Obviously this one was missed.

"First to Fire!"

Steven

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Central Wisconsin
Posted by Spamicus on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 9:18 PM

That's not so bad. When we got back from Desert Storm our buff was missing just about every piece of sheet metal as well as the fender outriggers. She had about thirty different coats of paint showing through and the tung was bent. Our supply guys were hard on her.

Steve

  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Ft. Sill, OK
Messed Up Water Buffalo
Posted by beav on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 7:04 PM

 Hey all, I was leaving work today; and I saw this random water buffalo sitting with in a convoy that has been drawn up to go out to the range tomorrow.  This is the most messed up/jacked up piece of equipment that I have ever seen in service, so I took some pics!  I guess the extreme weatherers aren't so off base all the time.  Good news is that one of the side reflectors works.

Looks like someone used the hairspray technique on this wheel.

 

"First to Fire!"

Steven

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