Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire You ex-mounted pukes, what is your favorite Combat Vehicle

Here is mine, I spent 10 years on them.

Bradley Live Fire

I worked on both the Bradley and the Abrams programs, and will take an M1A1 over the Bradley. The last seven years I worked, I was doing the factory build for the Abrams in Egypt. So, I'm partial to the Abrams Tank.

Don

Have to admit the rides I got in the Abrams were outstanding, kind of like riding in a cadillac with a big gun on it.

While I wait for the Bradley to load.....

BTW: I didn't know that the Bradley was classified as a tank. Is the Bradley a lite tank?

I liked the M113 armoured command vehicle. Not because it it was a great combat vehicle but because I live in cold/snow country and it had a nice heater. All buttoned up with the heater going nice and toasty warm.

I like the Huey because it covered a lot of ground in a short time and I like to fly.

But my all time favorite was the Jeep especially the Willis Jeep. The things one could with the Jeep was amazing. Tow a 1/4 ton fully load trailer 50/55 miles an hour on paved roads a little less over terrain. Mount a Fifty on the back, a lite Thirty (M60 in my time) for the shotgun. Carry all the supplies one needed for about a 30 day patrol and all this with a little 4-cylinder engine that sounded like a thrashing machine and a rig rated for a 1/4 of a ton load capacity. Oh ya, least I forget with a submersible kit drive it under water.

You can have your bullet magnets, I'll stay with my parachute and boots.

My wife has a bad habit of referring to my Bradley as a Baby Tank. I really hate it when she does that. Les

Ah thats cheating, you never get shot at there. And remember every time 300 sailors go out, 150 couples come back.

LPC's all the way. But now everyone is mounted one way or the other. God loves the Infantry.

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Such cute little toy's y'all had, except Bart's but his don't run in the desert!

Here's something with a bit more range than most.

The infantry may pray to God but they call for arty.

Only when we are bored................................

Hell we loved the infantry, somebody had to walk out there and find us targets

Damn Gun Bunnies! Only because your JAFO's can't do it without bodygaurds.

Not just the FO's, we had infantry security and Anti-air to guard our precious little selves.
BTW calling an FDC (Freaking Donuts and Coffee) type a gunbunny is a grevious insult sir.
Lifting 95 lb. arty rounds is for the, umm, less intelligent types.

Arty don't reach where I'm headed.

You were one of those firecontrol guys, no wonder your a Dune freak too.

UH-1D with a free sixty and a blooper, and a case of Willie Peter rounds to go with Mr. M-79!

This was my ride for my first two years in the Army:



This was my ride for the third and last year in the service: