Posted on Oct 9, 2015
Flashback Friday ... What was the first military vehicle you were licensed to drive?
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M151 Jeep as a PV2 (E-2) in 1986 - (but I'm VERY envious of LCDR Joshua Gillespie ! ! !)
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MAJ Glenn Bergeron
However, I was a EPIC FAIL with a HMMWV as an LT in Oct 1992 while night driving at Ft Bragg!!!
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I dunno 1stSgt-this is what happens on occasion when a sailor tries to drive one of your vehicles: I SWEAR I thought that grass was only a few inches tall LOL!
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SGT Philip Roncari
Cpl Mischa Brady - Me too ,got my learners permit on 101/2 black combat boot actually drove in the jungle boot ,some other drivers in the area used the Ho Chi Minh sandals and they were a bitch on drive by shootings!
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SFC Wesley Arnold, Jr I have no recall of needing a license for my 3/4 ton Dodge truck, T-43, T&T Co, 101st Sig Bn, IX Corps, Korea in 1954. (w/a gasoline fired heater on the left front fender).
Nor do I remember any investigation by anyone after a tie rod on the front end came loose and caused the truck to veer into a 4' deep ditch.
What I do remember is having to scrape road dirt and assorted crud from the underside of that truck before I could 'turn it in' as IX Corps was being inactivated.
We had already scrounged used pine boards and old nails to double-size our tent floor for the coming winter before we were informed of the pending inactivation.
Nor do I remember any investigation by anyone after a tie rod on the front end came loose and caused the truck to veer into a 4' deep ditch.
What I do remember is having to scrape road dirt and assorted crud from the underside of that truck before I could 'turn it in' as IX Corps was being inactivated.
We had already scrounged used pine boards and old nails to double-size our tent floor for the coming winter before we were informed of the pending inactivation.
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For me it was the Gamma Goat.....watch the clip, we used to get the new guys with the bilge pump!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmkFCvvLXDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmkFCvvLXDo
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SFC Wesley Arnold, Jr
Awesome CSM Michael Uhlig ... if they could uparmor GG, make it a little more comfortable, and add a turret (gun platform) I think could make a comeback
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CSM Michael J. Uhlig
The first one I drove was with the windshield down wearing the dust & wind goggles and a patrol cap......it was a grey rainy day in Germany. Learned the M151 Jeep next and then the M35 Duece....I remember my first squad leader (Joel Chambers) helping me with the PMCS and encouraging me to document that the reverse lights were inop...the Motor SGT did not think it was funny....I was the new guy.
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CUT-V! And then a Deuce and a half... I was so little in the driver's seat. :)
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