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Posted: 4/21/2016 11:55:42 AM EDT

Botched Airdrop Sends Humvees Plummeting To Their Doom

Somebody screwed up at the United States Army Garrison (USAG) in Hohenfels, Germany the other day because I am relatively sure that an airdropped Humvee is not supposed to move towards the ground quite that quickly. Someone in the 173rd Airborne Brigade probably has some explaining to do.

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Hohenfels, Germany probably drunk..

Posted: 4/21/2016 11:56:22 AM EDT

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This thread has new and exciting information.

Posted: 4/21/2016 11:59:21 AM EDT

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Some radio station in Cincinnati did something like this with turkeys

Posted: 4/21/2016 11:59:59 AM EDT

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Link to facebook vid

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:00:33 PM EDT

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I'm going to go with improper rigging for $500, Alex

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:00:43 PM EDT

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Best bit in all of television history.

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:01:21 PM EDT

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Clean one owner up for bid on govliquidations... No demil required!

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:02:32 PM EDT

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Riggers got some splainin to do

At the end there's a fire .... "Do we gotta call that up"??

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:03:10 PM EDT

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laughing his ass off

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:06:25 PM EDT

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I could maybe see losing one hummer in a drop... but three ?!?! DAMN .

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:07:19 PM EDT

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Some officer is gonna make those guys try to drive them, too.

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:07:38 PM EDT

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Lost it when the third one lawn darted. You can tell who is responsible, they'll be the ones walking around without an ass.

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:07:43 PM EDT

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Lol

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:07:56 PM EDT

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Yup. Its a dupe.

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:15:00 PM EDT

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Meh, not all of us are online all the time, y'know.
Some of us missed the other 6 or 7 threads about it.

Thanks, OP!

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:19:06 PM EDT

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We still do that in Arkansas, every year, at Turkey Trot.

We use a Cessna, though.

Posted: 4/21/2016 12:59:58 PM EDT

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Some radio station in Cincinnati did something like this with turkeys

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/24500/Dropping-Turkeys-from-a-Helicopter--24654.jpg

Best bit in all of television history.

Gordon Jump told me that, at the time, they knew it was going to be funny. They didn't realize just how iconic it was going to be. He was a friend of my father's, and a very nice man off the set. He and my brother must have played several hours of backgammon when he came to a holiday dinner with our family.

A buddy emailed me the failed airdrop video. My response: "It's like watching an allegory of my pre-marriage dating life."

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Posted: 4/21/2016 1:19:41 PM EDT

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Occasionally happens. Devices like these are used to prevent the load from being blown over by the wind after landing. Personally witnesses 101A2 stuck 6 feet in desert by barrel (gun was base piece). Didn't hurt accuracy. Saw Gamma Goat 2 feet tall. In my battery we tried to drop old M151A2's to get new jeep. Never happened to old ones, almost always happened to brand new ones. Not a darn thing good after it happened. They use a hydraulic release system now. In the mid 70's charges we used to blow off the chute when the load hit the ground. Under certain atmospheric conditions the chute after it opens caused the load to go off the rigging. Just like when the load lands, bingo no more chute. Watch out below........

Posted: 4/21/2016 1:28:16 PM EDT

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My money is on those three HMMWVs having been the maintenance nightmares for that unit, and someone slipped the riggers a case of beer to make sure they didn't have to dick around with them, anymore.

One of the funnier moments I had as a platoon sergeant was having to tell the "new guy" squad leader I had working for me that, no, this isn't 18th Airborne Corps, and no, we can't just "burn these POS trucks in on the next jump...". The forlorn look on his face, as he realized that a.) he wasn't Airborne anymore, b.) he was in a unit with no budget, c.) the rest of the Army didn't have the ability to write off equipment instead of fixing it, and that d.) he was likely to spend more time on police call than actually training, due to the aforementioned facts.

It was always kinda sad, when getting in guys from units that actually had budgets for training. Once they realized we were essentially paupers, and that the post headquarters thought we were there mostly to fill their manning rosters for post support missions... Yeah. Half our drinking problems in the mid-grade NCO world started there.

Posted: 4/21/2016 1:28:33 PM EDT

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http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1860407_3_Humvees_For_Sale___New_Paint__New_Tires__Low_Miles__Only_Dropped_Once.html

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1860407_3_Humvees_For_Sale___New_Paint__New_Tires__Low_Miles__Only_Dropped_Once.html

Posted: 4/21/2016 1:30:29 PM EDT

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I was driving down a dirt county road with my daughter last month and a turkey was running away from us down the side of the road. She asked why he didn't just go the other way and I explained that the fence was in his way and he couldn't fly...so the mother clucker flew over the fence and ran the other way.

Posted: 4/21/2016 1:35:57 PM EDT

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a20474/botched-airdrop-destroys-humvees/

Botched Airdrop Sends Humvees Plummeting To Their Doom

Somebody screwed up at the United States Army Garrison (USAG) in Hohenfels, Germany the other day because I am relatively sure that an airdropped Humvee is not supposed to move towards the ground quite that quickly. Someone in the 173rd Airborne Brigade probably has some explaining to do.

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Hohenfels, Germany probably drunk..

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I'm gonna guess the AF loadmaster is in deep shit.