Oops!!
Pictures of vehicles (and thus crews) not having a good day.
| Thrown Track | Got cracking at NTC |
| Wire act. | Also at NTC |
| Cliff of Death! | Driving down the road at night, blinded by oncoming traffic, we ended up slightly off the road... |
| Other side | That could have really hurt. |
| Recovery | Two M-88s and a tank pulled it out, with the recovered tank also driving. |
| OK. Now what? | Later that day, I went and jammed the same tank in a
dry canal.
Was doing well 'till the right side sank in soft mud. Five-minute tow job to get out again though. |
| If you really get stuck | Call in a JCB/Cat. |
| But if that gets stuck | The JCB started sinking too, but it was able to claw
its way back out. Useful trick, that.
Driver gave up and left us to our own devices. |
| New definition for Hull Down | Gotta admit, it's neat, if annoying. |
| Our Hero | This is the M88 sent to rescue the above tank. |
| Start digging, lads! | Going to have to do it the hard way |
| It takes two | After a while, another showed up. |
| Nosedive! | For reasons best known to geologists, apparently stable ground can give way under heavy tanks. |
| Double-header | One tank couldn't pull it out on its own, we tied on as
well.
Note the shovel by the rear of the center tank, it was starting to sink too. |
| And we're out! | All three tanks straining together barely made it, but make it they did! |
| 155mm result | No fatalities, fortunately. M1114s weren't always this fortunate for us however. |
| The Hummer above | Just as well they were in an M1114 for this one.
You can see the armoured crew compartment is untouched. |
| Unamphibious Hummer | Actually, if my driver was on the ball, we could have probably made it. |
| Towing Accident | Owner of the Opel wasn't happy at the time, but the
refund he got was huge.
Tow cable slipped off coming around a corner |
| Barn door's Open | I guess the duct tape gave way |
| Torsion Bar | Broken torsion bars do not stand in the way of patrolling! Busta Nut in Mosul. |
| SuperHET | A HET collided with my tank. And won.
The trailer swung out as he went around the corner and went -though- a track block, the idler wheel, and pulled off the first three left hand skirts. And the driver didn't notice. |
| Stuck Stryker | We hadn't even gotten to Mosul yet! |
| My Periscope | Is it me, or does it look like someone missed me by about four inches? |
| Going... | When the tank's too heavy for the road... |
| Going... | Just hope that you're not next to a canal |
| Ah. | Oh well. |
| This is not good. | Took us a while to get that one out again. |
| Our Hero...again | Part of the reason for that was that this happened the M-88 |
| Chief of the Boat | The crew of USS Bulldog (U-13) were awarded the Submariner's Dolphins. |
| More towing problems | 3-1 caught fire while under tow. |
| Turret roof | This probably doesn't look good on the resume |
| Million-dollar interior | Not worth much now. |
| Roadwheels | The roadwheels of the above tank. (Made of aluminium) |