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      A Former User last edited by A Former User

      It was pouring rain today,, we did what we were supposed to do and they let us go early. Nothing like cutting and putting connectors on fiber optic lines in the rain, its like human hair. Anyway here are some randoms. I found one Korean War M37 picture, it's getting really hard to find new ones.
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        ttyymmnn @Guest last edited by

        @415s30 Great shots. I wonder how many horrible injuries or deaths occurred before the Americans figured out that wire cutter on the front of the jeep. As I type this, I wonder, "Did we do the same thing to the Germans?"

        #Planelopnik all the things

        Yamaha YTR-8335
        Yamaha YTR-8445
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          LooseonExit @Guest last edited by

          @415s30

          Always fun to watch the ROV guys do that when they re-term umbilicals. Takes a lot of patience.

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          • Just Jeepin'
            Just Jeepin' @ttyymmnn last edited by

            @ttyymmnn said in Some Randoms:

            @415s30 Great shots. I wonder how many horrible injuries or deaths occurred before the Americans figured out that wire cutter on the front of the jeep. As I type this, I wonder, "Did we do the same thing to the Germans?"

            For anyone else baffled like I was…

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_catcher

            On walkabout. Back soonish.

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              A Former User @Just Jeepin' last edited by

              @just-jeepin Yeah nothing like running into wire across a road.

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                A Former User @ttyymmnn last edited by

                @ttyymmnn Pretty nasty lessons, I bet they learned pretty quickly but it was probably very bad at the start.

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                  Shop-Teacher @ttyymmnn last edited by

                  @ttyymmnn my grandfather was an officer under Patton in WWII. While he thought very highly of Patton, he gave the most credit for winning the war to, "The farm-boy mechanics who could build or fix anything from nothing."

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                    ttyymmnn @Shop-Teacher last edited by

                    @shop-teacher I believe him. Another great homemade solution was the hedgerow cutters they jury rigged on the Shermans in Normandy. Without these, we'd probably still be stuck in St. Lo.

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                    #Planelopnik all the things

                    Yamaha YTR-8335
                    Yamaha YTR-8445
                    Schilke P5-4

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                      Shop-Teacher @ttyymmnn last edited by

                      @ttyymmnn yep! Genius!

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