Re: OT 1:1 scale vehicle transport and Tracked Road Kill

At 5:56 PM -0700 5/19/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Yup.  Him, his driver, my platoon leader, my platoon
>sergeant.

[snip]

>3 times.

Wow...You aren't in the dog house with your PL and PSG now are you?

>  > >Nope.  First, it was the M728, second it's out of
>>  the
>>  >inventory.  Actually I drive an M60A1 AVLB.
>>
>>  Hmm. Have you played with the new (or is it still
>>  prototype) M1Abrams
>>  based AVLB or Grizzly?
>
>Grizzly is DOA.  Wolverine is only in service with
>588th, but our Batallion Commander swears we are
>getting them in December.  :)
>

Damn. The Grizzly looked like a pretty choice piece of hardware for 
executing breaches of obstacles and minefields. I've always thought 
the russian and German	armored EV's with the remote digging 
equipment were pretty useful.
>
>
>Yeah.	It was, until 1996, a seperate MOS (12F) but
>they got merged as a "cost saving" measure.

If all the needed cross training is getting done then it's probably 
not too bad. I'd worry that some of the imporant knowledge isn't 
getting across.
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