OT - Humvee stuck - insult to injury!

[Ysabel Kid]

From military.com:

Humvee in Deep...Stuff
Getting your vehicle bogged down on a combat patrol is bad. Getting it bogged down in an open sewer trench is insult to injury.

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos. ... =army-a.nl

[horsesoldier03]

Hope he didnt do that in the summer time when water was being restricted! Those UPARMOR Hummv's are very heavy and will get stuck very easily. I am sure he will be hearing about it from those in his unit for a long time.

[Jaguarundi]

A Memorable event to be mentioned at Unit Reunions years down the road! Like "What did grandad do during the war".

[morgan in nm]

I have seen that happen before when I had a new TC think that if a tank can make it surely a humvee can. Wish I would have had a camera that time.

[Sixgun]

Oh man! Get out the pressure washer.----stinky-----------Sixgun

[awp101]

There's a joke about a certain type of "detail" here but it'd be too easy...

[Cliff]

This is a bit different. Back in the early 1960's while stationed in West Germany it was common at certain times of the year for some farmer to pull his honey wagon out in front of a military convoy. This I believe was sometimes intentional. A lot of the farmers had old wooden tank honey wagons loaded with liquid manue for their fields. It was common to "T" bone these dang things and get covered in some of the stinkiest and foulest manure. This was bad, seemed no matter how one tried to wash the vehicle, the smell would always come back in warm weather even a new paint job would not help. Of course the farmer would get a brand new metal honey wagon from Uncle Sam so they never really seemed upset at losing the old ones. Just a bit different. I know an M-113 could smell for a long time. ATB

[brucew44guns]

A lot of people think that 4 wheel drive will go anywhere---no problem. That can be the case many times, but not everytime. That vehicle was in bad shape off down in that trench, and I bet that slime was awful slick, imagine the stench in that street after all that stirring up.

[Sixgun]

A lot of people think that 4 wheel drive will anywhere---no problem. That can be the case many times, but not everytime. That vehicle was in bad shape off down in that trench, and I bet that slime was awful slick, imagine the stench in that street after all that stirring up.

Bruce, you hit it on the head with "a lot of people think that a 4 wheel drive will go anywhere". We get these yuppies around here with their brand new $40,000 Land Rovers smashed up in a ditch during a snow storm because they think they have something invincible. ----Sixgun

[WCF3030]

I drove a hummer for 6 years in the service,(when I was not on a "hike") they will get stuck. Mostly high centered. The motor is a pooch and the gearing is to high.
They should have just refitted the Power Wagons!!
Sitting here watching the video I can almost smell the stuff on that vehicle, or may be its me?

[RSY]

One of my Marines in my TOW section in Gitmo flipped one onto its roof taking a hard turn too fast on a coral road one morning. OUCH!

As pointed out above, they are by no means indestructible.

scott

[Modoc ED]

Uh Oh!!

[Charles]

When that happens, the men learn a lesson about "chain of command". The poor soldier who can't give orders to anybody ends up with the duty.

[JReed]

I drove a hummer for 6 years in the service,(when I was not on a "hike") they will get stuck. Mostly high centered. The motor is a pooch and the gearing is to high.
They should have just refitted the Power Wagons!!
Sitting here watching the video I can almost smell the stuff on that vehicle, or may be its me?

On the new trucks they have a better motor and trany. But with all that armor they weigh more then the proverbial Sh&* ton. The only good thing is that the doors are sealed fairly well most of the stuff should of stayed on the outside.

[awp101]

What was the old Bill Cosby line? First you say it then you do it?

[Gun Smith]

I've been driving 4X4's of several vintages for 35 years. The first things I learned were the difference between 2 wheel drive and 4 wheel drive is with a 4X4 you get stuck deeper, further. And second, when the going looks like it's getting worse, you BACK UP out of trouble.