For a bit of fun just go straight to 9:24 and watch the end it is a really funny test that even the Marines copping it have a fair bit of trouble keeping a straight face it is just a bit of mirth no offence intended but it is very funny. The world needs a bit of laughter at times.
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First clip...... EVERY tankie just KNOWS that if you drive along a slope, one of two things will happen. You throw a track or even worse, you throw TWO tracks trying to prevent the first coming off. Or it will topple over. REAL bastxxx to recover tanks side on with thrown tracks . Hot empty cases down your shirt. Used to happen all the time in Malaya where we only wore loose shirts or no shirts
Last edited by Peter Laidler; 11-17-2017 at 01:10 PM.
Done a couple of recoveries on M113's on their lids, makes me wonder how they can be so stupid.
But saying that, I guess those recoveries were much easier than the submerged APC'S, hard to tell those young blokes they are not submarines.
Which reminds me of one young bloke I had on a M113A1 driving course, we called him Kamikazi, he only new one speed....flat out.
We used to follow nose to tail on the bush tracks, a few turns and dips, the odd knife edge........anyway, back to this bloke.
He would lag back until he could get up a bit of pace to catch up, one track was down a slight slope, with a slight kink in the track around a large stump, well Kamikazi wound her up down this slope, realized he couldn't make the turn, overcorrected and found himself perfectly balanced on this great bloody stump.
Tracks sagging and flogging fresh air six inches off the ground, you could push the APC around in circles with one hand.......well that's the closest I've ever been to wetting myself outside of combat situations........not with fear, but bloody laughter.
It only took a nudge with another track to get it off again, poor bugger, I still give him curry at every old boys gathering and reunion.
That's priceless Muffer........ Had me shrieking with laughter. Where was it, Pukka...? Funny how long the 113's and 432's have lasted. Do you still have them
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