Army Recovery Mechanics do their stuff overseas

[RonMcGr]

This one nearly swam. It's probably Iraq.
No damage to the vehicle :)
http://memweb.newsguy.com/~mcgrice/callsign_victor_burrito_0.jpg
http://memweb.newsguy.com/~mcgrice/callsign_victor_burrito_1.jpg
http://memweb.newsguy.com/~mcgrice/callsign_victor_burrito_2.jpg

Cheers

[UncleHo]

:oops2:

[DeeJay]

Well there is no question our guys are fearless.
There is no way I would stand where they both are:o

[Defender=1st]

haha i wonder how they managed to do that.

[DeeJay]

haha i wonder how they managed to do that.

Road collapse, those things are pretty heavy.

[Blknight.aus]

nope thats what happens when you tell an armour corps driver, angle park it over there....


rumour control has it it was stopped and the verge failed out from under it.

[Landy110]

That's serious recovery. I wonder how the snatch strap would have gone???
As DEEJAY said though, very "brave" standing there during a recovery.

[mrapocalypse]

LEFT LEFT LEFT!!!!!!

Doh!

Helloo.... NRMA..... Yes hello....Green ASLAV, Angle parked in Pakistan. It's rather urgent. I have my card

Yes I'll hold.

[Hymie]

Not how I would have run the task!!!
Blokes standing in the bight of the rope.
Check out the chain and snatch block dragging through that sandy crap,
I can't tell if the Boggo in the Burrito 2 pic is standing over a live rope or not as I can't make out if it has passed through the block.
As an Instructor that job would constitute a FAIL on a 226 course

[Blknight.aus]

having seen the rest of the pics.....(I shoulda waited for them all to load weve only got pic 1 at work)

1+2 are with whinches turing

3 is not live, you can see the guys with their feet on the snatch blocks (cant work out why unless they were providing just enough resistance to allow for respooling of the winches in prep for the next set of pulls) and the lead lines to the pullies are disconnected.

ID guess that the 2 ropes that look live are going to static anchor points... I wouldnt want to be working near them but well sometimes circumstance dont let us do what we want when we want to.

with 20/20 hindsite (and not knowing what anchorages they had to use) Id have done a similar thing but used the snatch blocks to pull it up closer to the edge then pulled forwards or backwards at an angle using a tow vehicle to "climb" the victim on its wheels up over the edge.

[Roverray]

Would have been interesting upside down in the water.

With all the anti RPG mesh - look a bit like a mobile crab pot...

[Phoenix]

ust be some soft edges on some of their roads, i've seen some similar photos of US vehicles which have come close, or actually gone in at very similar locations. hell, one was an abrams, imagine towing that out of the ditch!!

[mittadisco]

ust be some soft edges on some of their roads, i've seen some similar photos of US vehicles which have come close, or actually gone in at very similar locations. hell, one was an abrams, imagine towing that out of the ditch!!
http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/wp-content/abrams_in_water.jpg

[dlatn]

I would like to bring attention to what is written on the gun barrel.

[Quarks]

Hey dlatn,

'gone bush' is a bit different to 'gone swimming'!!
:p

[mittadisco]

I would like to bring attention to what is written on the gun barrel.

I bet some of those blokes would like to shove him up the barrel...... ;)

[dlatn]

does anyone konw if its phtoshopped on? makes for a good metaphor.