Yeah... sometimes you have no choice, but... man. That blows having to do it there.


Then again, you could be a smartass, not that I was, there is no witnesses saying I was at any rate, and pull the track pins on both sides of a brad's track just past the #1 road wheel...


Heheh...

I don’t think we had to. That’s the problem. We just did it the hard way for no good reason.

I forgot where the sprocket wheel on an M2 is, so I had to go find an image. I see there are sprockets on the forward set. I can’t find an image that gives me a good look at the rear to see if there is a sprocket wheel back there, too. Not likely, I guess. Given that the forward sprocket wheel can drive the track, did the driver of the vehicle roll forward until the loose end went over the return rollers and came off the sprocket wheel, flopping to the ground in front of the #1 road wheel and leaving twin strips of track lying forlornly behind an IFV no longer capable of moving itself? If so, that’s just messed up.

Youuuuuuu rat bastard....

Hey! They deserved it! Even the 1SG said as much - saying when he was looking right at *me* that the perps would be punished hard - and then never could find the perp in question.


A few weeks before, on the day before an IG inspection, the crew of said Brad decided that the 66 Track would be better off stuffed to the gills with styrofoam peanuts - applied stealthily the previous weekend. You have no idea how hard, and how many hours spent over the day and night before the inspection it took to get the tank strac again.


If they did this the following weekend? OK, funny, minor gag in retaliation. *Just* before an IG inspection? Nuclear Retaliation Alpha Strike.

You and your crew were terrible people. I have NEVER done such a deplorable thing to my fellow soldiers... *Looks around innocently*:rolleyes:

That sounds a bit like the perils of owning your own dragon. It's a beast of war so awesomely destructive that it will even sometimes accidentally kill its owner, and not even require it's breath weapon main armament to do it. It just mis-stepped, critically chipped a toe claw and the ricochet decapitated it's rider.

Last time I broke track on a 577, it was because we had to change all the track pads on both sides for the whole TAC. Just a long, labor-intensive activity...we started with an air gun for the track pad bolts, but it gave up and had a meltdown before we finished the first track...after that, it was the misery of tightening bolts with breaker bars on a hot day and an activity that stretched well into the night...the TAC had four 577s and two 113s...:(

Ironically enough, my current character I'm playing with (well...just started) was a team leader on one of the combat service support teams sent forward to cannibalize equipment and bring parts back. His team got jumped, he got separated...