wow....just wow....that reminds me I better check my blinker fluid

When I was in AIT at FT Gordon, GA, I had finished my soldering test early and was just burining time and solder. The instructor sent me out to find a set of BA-1100/ns. I went out looking for these batteries (the Army lists it's battery numbers as BA-something). I got a lil confused, but got the balloons that he was asking for.

I was then asked to find an ST-1. I wondered around that school house for like an hour. I got so confused and turned around that I went to sit down in the classroom. That was for lecture. Had nothing to do with soldering. AND I still had that ST-ONE...STONE in my hand.

I was 18 at the time.

lol... that sucks

rofl... wow.

get me a can of A.I.R. next time you go to the store and also make sure you guys change the air in your tires from summer air to winter air!!!! cuz winter is soon approaching

On the ship you send the new guys to get a bosun punch. My favorite is the left handed crecent wrench or a bottle of propwash.

box of grid squares, chemlight batteries, ID-10t, PRC-E7 (said out loud, Prick E-7 or mean Sergeant First Class), BA-1100/ns, ST-1, blinker fluid...

The Army used to do Prop Wash until one smart private decided to go to the nearest Air Force base to pick up a 5 galloon tub of cleaning solution for the blades of a C-130, ironically enough.

I've told one of my Soldiers to get an exhaust sample of the HMMWV and the LMTV. Shoulda seen them out there tryin to trap exhaust fumes in a tiny lil sample collection bottle. It was great.

Problem with all these jokes, though, is that sometimes the Soldier wont take your guidance seriously. I told another one of my Joes that he had to drain the air tanks of the FMTV vehicles to prevent freezing water from bursting the tanks, lines, and fittings. He thought I was kidding. Until I had his silly self out there in the motor pool in the middle of a winter wind storm replacing lines and fittings. Guess he wont make that mistake again.

That's a classic!

When I first hit the sand of Saudi back in 90' as a E-1 right out of basic, they had some of us looking for soft spots under the tanks with hammers...it was hilarious, and something about a transverse key too..

LOL, almost forgot the Armor Hardness Check. THAT right there is a CLASSIC.

what do those mean??? i know some of them but i dont know box of grid squares and others

Box of grid squares: meant as a box of maps. the north/south and east west lines on a map is known as a grid square. In the Army, it's NORMALLY a 1 square kilometer picture of the earth per grid square. Depending on scale of map.

How do you think those crazy chemists get those glowsticks to glow? Why with batteries, of course.

ID-10t. remove the hyphen. ID10t. Now capitalize the final letter. ID10T. now change the one to an I and the zero to an O. IDIOT.

The letters PRC mean Personal Radio Communications. we have a number of different radios, so when you tell a new Soldier to find a PRC-whatever, he's assuming that you're telling him to find, essentially, a walkie-talkie. BTW: ARC is Aircraft Radio Communications.

BA-1100/ns is described above, as is ST-1. Blinker fluid is popular in the Army as well, but it's becoming played out.

For simple terms in the Navy a bosun is a deckhand so if you go to the locker and ask for a bosun punch. Well your not gonna get a tool you'll get...

i didnt know about the map thing, ID-10t was obvious but what does HMMWV and LMTV stand for?

HMMWV is the military designation for the Hummer H1. The term Humvee came from HMMWV.

High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle

Light Medium Tactical Vehicle

Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles

and some that I havent mentioned, but you may have heard else where:

MTV: Medium Tactical Vehicle

HEMMT: High Mobility Expandable Tactical Truck (Hem-it)

PATRIOT: Phased Array Tracking to Intercept Of Target

The Hummvee was indeed the precursor to the H1, and was being called the Hummer before GM released the greatest off-road pick-up ever to the civilian market. The Hummer H1 that yall know of is pretty much the same thing as the Hummvee, except the H1 is much prettier, safer, comfort-minded, and quiet than the military version ever hoped to be.

Another tidbit of info most dont know: Chrysler, Ford, GM, and AMC all cooperated in the development of the Hummvee. Ford had the original frame, GM had the power train, Chrysler had the interior layout and wire routing, AMC had the body. AM General ended up getting the rights to all portions of the Hummvee and is now the sole owner of the Hummvee fame.

my dad told me when he was in the Navy, they used to call a mop bucket a cadillac... the officer would ask the crew "who here wants to drive a cadillac?"... the new guys on the ship would raise their hands... needless to say, they got to drive the cadillacs all over the deck of the ship while mopping haha...

I knew what a Patriot was, but I had no idea it actually stood for something...lol

Interesting fact about the Humvee, Richard. I would love to own an H1 (other than the MPG, anyway) but the H2 and H3 need to be taken off the roads and used for target practice or something...

Oh, and has anyone had any experience getting any FNG forms? I haven't, but it's one that I've heard about on a number of occasions...don't know if it's used in the military or not.

lol, gonna hafta use that. FNG isnt really used that much anymore in the Army. lol, where'd that Private run off to? hehe...

Surplus H1s can be found on ebay for about 30k. Comfortable they are not but diesel powered go anywhere FTW.

And AM General was bought out by GM.

Plus civilian H1s are no longer produced. Only military versions are.

H2 is a blended frame suburban rear tahoe front.

I wouldn't mind an H3. Better suited for off road duty then it's bigger brother the H2.

But neither of them look as good with a .50 on top.

I wish I had one of the surplus, but I dunno if it'd fit in the garage.

I guess I could park it in the backyard, but I wouldn't want to spend the $100 to get to work and back home everyday. It'd be a purely recreational vehicle.

If I was to get an H1 thats all it would be used for. plain fun.

What I wanna do one day is go to DRMO and pick up a used M998 or one of the heavy variants without the shop on the back and use THAT as a fun truck. With some of these things being modified from the 6.0L to the 7.5L TT I/C, there is no END to the heights I could climb.

BTW: the 6L Hummvee engine is said to make 150 whp, BUT something like 300-400 whl torque.

haha that guy at autozone must have had a good laugh when he asked for elbow grease. Imagine that..."Hi I was wondering where I can find elbow grease?" "Uhmm hmmm (trying not to laugh) check Aisle Five it should be right next to the blinker fluid."

At my first job (working at a book & literature distribution center) I had a job packing orders. One order came through and I packed the box full, with several items to spare that would not fit. My supervisor told me instead of sending another box, to simply find the "box stretcher" tool and expand the box enough to fit the extra items.

Needless to say, I wandered all over the complex asking various people if they had seen the box stretcher!

I got owned for sure, but it was hilarious!!