Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

Had a jump get scratched one night because a HMMV burned in, there wasn't much left when we got to it on the DZ. Pretty cool though.

 

I was pretty damn impressed with your Winnebago Phil!

 

Translation for us civilian folk??

 

Thanks Peter! Pretty sure that I was stuck in that picture tho...

Shortly thereafter...

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Don't listen to SWB Jeeper spotters...

Could have been worse.

 

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Now I'm thirsty

 

More skinny pedal

 

Picked up on that, which is why I threw out that "bypass/ different strokes" comment...

When you were helping me with valving advice, I did some peripheral research and determined that I "need" bypass shocks. Just for tuneability. There's no overlandy argument against them... Especially if I want my rig to ride like this:

 

I want to go to Jellystone park in that and film the scenery with my Brownie.

 

Went over to Stealth Customs to pick up a set of SR8's. Great to catch up with Vin and glad to see his business to doing well.
Even Riley had a good time checkin' it out

 

Right, sorry. We used to do Mass Tac jumps (about a battalion worth of people jumping - 1000 +/- people). We'd jump at night, like 1-3am and it'd be 1 bird after the other. C-130s hold 64 jumpers, C-17s hold about 100 jumpers. Before we jump they'd conduct heavy drops; HMMVS, Artillery pieces, Tractors, etc. Well they did heavy drop and a palletised HMMV had a complete malfunction on its chute (never opened) needless to say it fell about 1000 ft out of the sky and went kaboom on the dropzone. We came afterwards in our birds and the jump master saw the fire on the drop zone and scratched (canceled) the jump. I ended up getting put on heavy drop recovery (cleaning up the packing on the pallets and recovering the giant chutes the equipment uses) afterwards. Saw the HMMV, it was a pile of smoldering ash on a pallet. Was pretty cool.

 

Also I think you can find some videos online. The Russians experimented with their paratroopers; one they would do low passes over snow with the ramp down and jumpers would jump into the snow with no chutes, the other was trying to tailgate drop tanks with crewmembers in them. Needless to say both experiments did not end well and made me glad I was an American Paratrooper and not a commie!

 

Thanks for the explanation!

 

Touché, Jberé, touché.

 

Thank you all for your input!! Greatly appreciated. Def good call on the cheaper flights, nearly $150 less to fly outta OAK.

And I was digging Hanalei because it's where I went when I was a kid, never made it to the south part of the island... Is poipu better? The bigger swells on the north sound appealing

 

Anyone in Sonoma, Marin or SF have a soft topper they wouldn't mind showing to a friend of mine. He is in the market for one but wants to check it out in person before purchasing. I can vouch for him not being a murderer. 1 or 2 gen doesn't matter.

 

Just this year I was out at Hohenfels at JRTC rotation. There's a video of 3 Humvees "burning in" We saw the drops from a distance but didn't know what happened until later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGzojgbbhk

 

With all these mishaps, maybe they could mistakenly drop one into my driveway?

 

Can't wait to get into the house? So impatient.

Always wanting a hummer in the driveway...