War Stories !!

[LaWMaN]

Hi Guys I would like to start a war stories thread for all you Drivers and current military personal or X servicemen. It would be great to sit and read your real life adventures.

Thanks LaWMaN :bounce:

[SUBS17]

ok, I'll kick this off with a funny one about a Strikemaster pilot that went the whole hog to nail one of Aussies brand new Hornets. A flight that was the last flight of that airframe.

Back in the 80s the Aussies got their new Hornets and decide to bring them over to New Zealand for an exercise. I've forgotten the whole scenario but basically the Strikemasters were to simulate enemy bombers for the Hornets to take out. At the time of this incident one particular Strikemaster pair were flying down a gully(about 30 or 40ft) and a pair of Hornets crossed over the top of this gully. Seeing his chance the lead pilot brought his nose up sharply and turnned with as much energy as he could. The airframe groaned but he kept the turn bringing his nose onto the unsuspecting Hornet. Linning up the old gun sight he fired. It was good a confirmed (simulated) kill. With that he flew home with his photo inside the gun camera(and people think a mig21 is bad). On arrival at the airbase he landed safely but the ground crew noticed that something wasn't right. Sure enough it turnned out he had exceeded the g limit for the Strikemaster and bent the wings from wingtips pointing up to wingtips level. After that the whole Strikemaster fleet was grounded due to cracks on the fuselage and the aircraft in particular never flew again. But it was a good kill though.

[LaWMaN]

Ok here is one. I was a driver of an MRV Medium range Recon Vehicle, with a 76mm gun, 50cal 30cal in the XLH Australian reserves. We were coming back from a live fire and engagement weekend, I was the third vehicle back, when the lead commander ordered his driver with a smack on the head from the radio antenna to pull off the dirt road to the right, which was strange at the time. The second vehicle was ordered to do the same, so with a smack on my head from my crew commander I was ordered to follow the vehicle in front, so as ordered right pivot and off we went. The lead vehicle was heading for an abandoned car (red mini) dumped at the side of the road. As the lead driver hit the car and started to crawl over the top the windows exploded out and half crushed the mini, next the second driver smashed into the wreck ripping the top off the car leaving a mangled chassis and engine. HA HA My turn as I hit the mangled car and lost sight of it over the hull of the MRV and came crashing down the other side we where all laughing and yahooing over the com's and continued driving back down the road still talking about crushing the little car. About 500m around a corner still going on about the destruction we left behind, the lead vehicle suddenly went deadly silent, next our crew was the only ones talk about the car then all eyes went off to the side of the dirt road and all was quiet.
There walking in the opposite direction was a little man waving excitedly at the 3 armored vehicle passing him by. In one hand he had a fuel jerrycan, if you could see the looks on our faces it was one of horror, we just crushed his car.

He did get a brandnew car in the end thanks to the Australian ARMY. :bigsmile:

[SUBS17]

LMAO, man talk about spur of the moment what were you guys driving M113s?

[LaWMaN]

LMAO, man talk about spur of the moment what were you guys driving M113s? :bigsmile: Your on the money SUBS17

[SUBS17]

Always fun running vehicles over cars in tracked vehicles, fire brigade once asked me to smash a couple of cars up with a CAT 920. You can imagine the fun of throwing cars all over the place.

[Furyan]

LOL Lawman. Your story reminds of the one I heard while I was stationed at Ft Polk LA ('89-90). To give a little background we used a training area called Peason Ridge of which was right on the edge of the Airforce training area. The Airforce training area was utilized by England airforce base (which is now a municiple airport) which at that time was the main A-10 (Flying Tigers) Base of the U.S. Ok story goes a couple of squads of of recon scouts using M113A2's parked and where out on a recon, A flight of A-10's where heading out to the gunnery range and spotted wht they thought were new targets on the range. Needles to say they lit those suckers up! (M113's) dont know how true this is but if it is :doh:

Now for my own personal story:

While on deployment to the 91 Gulf War (deployed from Germany 317th Engr Bn Camp Eschborn), I was assigned on call to pick up mess hall supplies for my company. The Mess hall Sargeant lets say wasnt all there upstairs half the time, there where a couple of times we almost strayed into Iraq BEFORE the ground war started. To make long story short we drove one morning for about 3 hours looking for a supply point with other 5 tons from my platoon. We finally found it so we all pulled in line. The mess hall Sargeant proceeded to get out of the cab of my truck when is M16 got stuck on the frame. He proceed to pull violently to get this thing unstuck and finally it unjammed itself and he went flying! If any of you now, A 5 ton Dump is pretty high up when standing on the step. Needless to say he got up was covered in dust precisely half of his body down the middle with his glasses half hanging off. He regained his composure dusted himself off I asked if he was ok , he said yaa and walked off. As he left the AO I looked down and could see in the other 3 5 tons in the cabs the other guys damn near dying of laughter, thats when I lost it myself.

I got a plethora of stories to tell (2 reserve 8 active US Army, 12B) of the time I was in. I would be writing for days. :thumb:

[LaWMaN]

LOL man that would of been so funny. :bounce:

[Dirty Dawg]

Lawman, What year were you driving the "Beast".. was Quartermaine a C/Comd then?
I was in 10light ponies from 87til 92 did my DNS Cse in 90 before then just a Veggie then went to MP's got out in 03.. Probably know who you are... :bigsmile:
Nige

[LaWMaN]

Lawman, What year were you driving the "Beast".. was Quartermaine a C/Comd then?
I was in 10light ponies from 87til 92 did my DNS Cse in 90 before then just a Veggie then went to MP's got out in 03.. Probably know who you are... :bigsmile:
NigeHey Dirty Dawg Quartermaine rings a bell I think he was a trooper, did you meet Srg-Berry in you time :smile: now he had some good ones to tell.

[Dirty Dawg]

:thumb: Yeah Mate I know Sgt Berry and those poxy bin ads he did..lol
lotta history with that unit and I got my name on some unit trophies which go back nearly to the begining of XLH.Had a good time at that unit especially my DNS CSE. Although some of the B.U.F.F Sgt's used to piss me off out bush lazy farkers at the best of times.....drop me a pm and let me know who you really are..probably know you.

[ruprecht]

OK this is more of a military urban legend than anything, but a mate of mine was leading a convoy of land rovers and unimogs when one of the drivers, a certain Pte Grover, let his vehicle wander into a ditch and rolled it. My mate got on the radio to report to HQ - the radio call?
"Private Grover's rolled the Rover over, over."
:tongue:

[Afterburner]

"Private Grover's rolled the Rover over, over."
:tongue: HaHaHaHa........ :orange:

[LaWMaN]

Ok here's a new story.
I was on my DNS " M113 Drivers course " Way north of Perth Western Australia in some little swampy low land area. One of the other drivers had the biggest grin you have ever seen, you know the one with too big front teeth that just stand out in the dark when they smile. Well We where carrying out training on emergency stops, in other words driving flat out and then pulling as hard as you can on the pivots to bring the steel beast to a halt, well thats all good on firm ground, but doing it in some mud pit now that is not an easy task but hell we gave it our best and paid for it. Being the driver of an M113 you sit way in front on the left, so when the bossman barks an order to jump you say how high, now as we all know the bossman is not always right but when you tell bossman "Sir arrrrr if I do that" you never do get to end your sentence before getting a smack on the noagen.. (your head) from the commanders whacking stick (a branch pulled off some poor tree) so as time gose on and six more smack on the head you give up trying to help the man. Well I was going flatout and waiting for the order to stop.... 25m's to the front was a very wet looking patch of ground and somehow I knew the bossman was waiting for me to hit that mark, so I planted my foot flat to the plate and stood up waiting for the order to halt but it never came ..... We hit the muddy ground with the single Detroit diesel giving all she had to give, then OMG a huge black watery curtain 6m high came over the front of the APC , the poor Guys in the back had the top hatch open and did not see what was coming their way. We came to a slow halt, water half way up the sides of the M113. I looked behind me to the crew Commander and pissed myself laughing, he looked like a bog monster from head to waist covered in mud. We played in the mud for 2 more hours before heading back to base, as I looked over at the other driver in the M113 he looked back and smiled and all I could see was too big white teeth under a mud caked face.
LaWMaN out :bigsmile: