Home in the LAV

[Tegyrius]

http://www.dvidshub.net/news/67460/m...into-life-road

Relevance should be obvious.

- C.

[perardua]

Wish I had some photos of the inside of my Vector (horrible vehicle, but roomy for a four man crew). We had posters up on the interior walls, a portable DVD player rigged up to run from the vehicle power, stacks of water coolers and an ipod in the front with speakers hanging round the interior of the wagon.

[dragoon500ly]

The old M-60 was great for hauling all kinds of "extras", on a REFORGER, we would line a rear sponson box with foil and have an instant cooler for sodas. The oddment cage in between the radio and ammo racks served as a holder for just about everything from radios to a small fridge.

But there was a National Guard outfit that came to Fort Knox for gunnery. They would pull instructors from the tank courses to ride the AI chair and score the gunnery....

Had to admire the priorities of the crew I was scoring...when I got up on their M-48, they had a setup. They had installed a small box on the bustle rack, filled it with ice and had a keg of beer cooling.

[perardua]

I have noticed it's often the reservists who are best at creating the creature comforts - I think a lot of it is down to the fact that many of the ones I have encountered have been mechanics, electricians, carpenters, builders and the like in their civilian lives. The DVD set up I mentioned was rigged by a guy who in civvy street was a vehicle mechanic/electrician, and we also had an awesome gym (with showers) on our mortar line built using material liberated from various building sites around the camp, again using the skills of attached reservists.

[HorseSoldier]

Way back in the day once saw a straight-from-the-living-room recliner hauled around in the back of a 113. Crew would prop the rear ramp up with a couple ammo cans and take turns relaxing.

[dragoon500ly]

We had a light colonel one time that was death on the "unauthorized gear that the damn tankers drag along with them."

One FTX he and his driver were late coming back into the encampment, and all they had to eat was a couple of cans of C-rat crackers.

Then they pulled into my platoon's position.

And them damn tankers had a couple of grills set up and were enjoying steaks...

"Pull on up colonel! You like your meat burnt or bloody?"

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

Way back in the day once saw a straight-from-the-living-room recliner hauled around in the back of a 113. Crew would prop the rear ramp up with a couple ammo cans and take turns relaxing.

Heh. The 3ID was notorious for looting.. err... scavenging items back during the invasion. We (3ACR) was being relieved from Fallujah (Before it went to shit) by them, and I kid you not, between the 3 577's was strapped two whole leather sectional sofa's they "found", as well as a ton of other furniture.

Me on the other hand, during a FTX during the Superbowl weekend (And wasn't we happy about that) got tactically sneaky: I figured out where we was going to be roughly during the big game, figured out in what direction and inclination I would have point a Direct TV dish to get signal, a nice large blackout tent, and a cheap small TV, with enough cable to run all the above from the APU. 1200 bucks got you a seat for the game, the 1SG got it for free (No dummy I - and besides, the CO had an "appointment" in the rear that night).