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Re: Christmas is over- Blondie goes back to work--


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Posted by Mel in SW Iowa on December 29, 2011 at 06:58:46 from (75.105.35.249):

In Reply to: Christmas is over- Blondie goes back to work-- posted by donjr on December 28, 2011 at 21:00:31:

I've got news for you, some men aren't much better.
I was a Tracked Vehicle Familiarization instructor
in the Army at Fort Sill, OK in 1968. We quickly learned when we had a new class to ask where they
were from. Many from larger cities had O driving
or motorized equipment experience. Some of these
students might start out ok, but would freeze up
in the first stressful situation they encountered.
We started them out with a lecture in the bleachers, then 10 instructors took them to their M109, a 155mm howitzer that looks like a tank, but only weighs 31 ton and was powered with a 405hp 8V71T Detroit that would allow a 45mph top speed (IIRC). That first day of actual
driving with these inexperienced students in a 40
acre sized flat field was an experience that you
won't soon forget. Some would freeze up and not steer, not look at their instructor, slow down, or stop once they were moving. If we could get them past the basics the first day, it wasn't so bad, but you learned to never let go of the instructors fuel shut off that was added to each of our tracked vehicles used for this class. There were no women in these classes, but there
are a lot of similarities to the driving described
in this post.


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