Posted on Aug 16, 2016
What is the dumbest load you have pulled/hauled in the military?
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Technically I nor my unit did not pull the load, but we did escort and provide security in a combat zone, though known IED laden roads, with a penchant for direct fire attacks as well.
The load we risked our lives for???? Stuffed toys ..we delivered two HEMETT trailers full of conex inserts filled with stuffed toys to two starving Iraqi villages.
I was not told what the load was, I assumed it was relief supplies as we had moved before, food, water, medicine. I was embarrassed when the load was dropped, the village elders opened the inserts and there was no food... I was literally asked the iraqi equivalent of "What the fuck is this, we can't eat this " My Terp was scared to tell me what they were saying thinking I was going to Kill them all and go home.......he saw me getting more and more pissed and mistook it for being mad at the villagers, when i was really pissed at the Pokemon errr, Polar Bear Battalion leadership that sent this crap. As we drove away, we watched a large bonfire consume the containers of toys.
My unit lost an entire shipment of sustainment rations that week as well... and had to be re ordered from the BN that we were tasked to. I dont think we ever figured out what happened to the HEMTT load of food ,,it was on the patrol base one day, and missing the next. Strange....
The load we risked our lives for???? Stuffed toys ..we delivered two HEMETT trailers full of conex inserts filled with stuffed toys to two starving Iraqi villages.
I was not told what the load was, I assumed it was relief supplies as we had moved before, food, water, medicine. I was embarrassed when the load was dropped, the village elders opened the inserts and there was no food... I was literally asked the iraqi equivalent of "What the fuck is this, we can't eat this " My Terp was scared to tell me what they were saying thinking I was going to Kill them all and go home.......he saw me getting more and more pissed and mistook it for being mad at the villagers, when i was really pissed at the Pokemon errr, Polar Bear Battalion leadership that sent this crap. As we drove away, we watched a large bonfire consume the containers of toys.
My unit lost an entire shipment of sustainment rations that week as well... and had to be re ordered from the BN that we were tasked to. I dont think we ever figured out what happened to the HEMTT load of food ,,it was on the patrol base one day, and missing the next. Strange....
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SGT Robert Cupp roger that, you know the saying, YOU CALL, WE HAUL, I have pulled all kind of Waco loads, I guess its part of being a Trucker. M931 tractor pulling a MKT (CHOW-LOAD), wow it was A LOAD ON STERIODS.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Samantha S. Maj Marty Hogan SGT (Join to see) SGT Philip Roncari SPC Margaret Higgins SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SP5 Michael Rathbun CW5 Jack CardwellCOL Mikel J. Burroughs CPL Dave Hoover SFC Shirley Whitfield LTC Stephen F. SSG William Jones 1SG Carl McAndrews Lt Col Charlie Brown PO1 Tony Holland SGT Jim Arnold MSG Danny Mathers
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(3) 5 ton truck loads of horse crap for our BN. And yes i was the lucky one to unload it by hand and spread it out.
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How about that piece of crap M16 that I carried from TUY HOA to Kotum province RVN in 1966 -67 talk about a dumb load!
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Haul a friggin thumb stick, from FOB Caldwell to FOB Anaconda in 2005..Really 24pax 6vic. Information couldn't have been that important, must have been something real sensetive like porn pics or something.
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2010 Fob shank wardack vally logar province afghanistan. 7200 ft. Up in the mountains we had to haul loads of field stone rocks to make rock paths around the fob on a mountain of what else ROCK. But hey i guess it made it more colorfull
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I had to fill 55 gal drums with crude oil. In Somalia. So they can spread it on the dirt road to keep dust down. Try to get that off the underside of a 5ton. Ya and the pump nozzle didn't have a switch to turn it off when you went to fill the other drums
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
Cpl Cory James Korea, 1954, I scraped similar crud off the undercarriage of "T-43" so it could be turned in when our unit closed down, I had zip for tools and used a screwdriver and a putty knife. It was a Dodge 3/4 ton pickup, on the left fender was a gasoline fed heater for the winter.
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