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Post by chulai00 on Sept 9, 2010 13:31:33 GMT -5
How many of us spent long long hours either baking or having water drip in on us from rain oh and freezing as the heaters never worked. No books, No radios. Just sit on hot Spot for 4 hours and look at mostly nothing. Of course then there there were no Cell phones, hand held games, MP3 or Nooks How on earth did we survive. As I was a non smoker if you wanted to smoke when on my crew you went outside rain or shine. Attachments:
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Post by George on Sept 11, 2010 19:38:42 GMT -5
Do you remember having "Ross Cam Lever Sterring" imbedded on your cheeks.
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Post by rick browning on Jan 18, 2011 17:35:48 GMT -5
Yep. I remember I was crew chief driving one to a emergency, New River or Quantico. Was going through a field, hit a small ditch, my turrent man already standing through the hatch. I hit the ditch and just glanced at my turrent man and his boots were all I saw. Nearly threw him out of the truck
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Post by mikeyb on Jan 19, 2011 13:12:54 GMT -5
God do I rememeber those American La France MB-5's. In Japan only the senior NCO's got the Oshkose MB1 and MB5. I usually got the La france crash 34 leaked like a sieve,cold and door always fell off when opened but I sure loved it.
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Post by Joe Post on Jan 19, 2011 20:36:53 GMT -5
How many of u remember the MB-2, 530A structual truck and the Biederman MB-1. These were some of our trucks in 1959.
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Post by Stretch on Jan 19, 2011 21:24:49 GMT -5
We still had a functioning MB-5 at K-Bay in '86. It was deadlined shortly thereafter, but I did sit a few hotspots in it.
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Post by mikeyb on Jan 22, 2011 23:35:28 GMT -5
I remember 530A,B and C. We had a 530B at Bogue Field was a good brush truck. Cherry Point had the Biederman MB-1 For back up that was a treasure. How about the O-6 Cardox? We had one a Wright Patt AFB when I first went there we used it at the gun range. Good times.
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Post by dad42boys on Feb 4, 2011 12:40:28 GMT -5
I remember that mb 5 in K-bay, I think I was the only one who drove it in the end. I remember sitting hotspot in Quantico, the river was frozen, big chunks of ice flowing southbound and four of us in the cab, wearing longjohns, cammies, field jackets and all of our bunker gear, hoods and all to stay warm. Even the driver was in bunker gear. Gunny Briles tried sneaking up on us to see if we were sleeping, All he could do was laugh.
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Post by Stretch on Feb 4, 2011 13:17:44 GMT -5
I remember that mb 5 in K-bay, I think I was the only one who drove it in the end. I think you're right. Rushton went to Quantico and Cozine went UA. That left you.
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Post by dad42boys on Feb 6, 2011 10:16:12 GMT -5
Cozine, what a goof! I could never understand why he went UA. I think it had something to do with his girl back home.
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Post by Stretch on Feb 6, 2011 14:21:55 GMT -5
She came out to visit him once, and they spent a couple days just hanging out in his room at 1633. Cheap-ass wouldn't take her out anywhere. The whole island of Oahu at his disposal (he had a car), and his idea of the perfect Hawaiian vacation with his sweetie was to hang out in a barracks room on base. I guess he was so happy to just be in her company, that he assumed she felt the same way. He did take her to the PX for lunch, though. He hadn't taken leave or anything, so he had to go to crash crew on his workday. He had planned to just leave the girlfriend holed-up in a motel somewhere while he was at work, but Mallard (Cozine's roommate at the time) loaded her up and drove her all over the island while Cozine was at crew. I'm not sure if Mallard being her tourguide was Cozine's idea or not. I don't remember. But as you can imagine, there was a nasty rumor floating around after that. I don't know if this is the same girl that he went UA over...
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Post by Stretch on Feb 6, 2011 16:33:30 GMT -5
Another Cozine / MB5 story...
It was one of those times when a lot of the P-19's were down all at once, so we were using the MB5 as a line truck. It was a Sunday, and the MB5 was on the roster for duty, which included the usual truck field day.
But lo and behold, the electrical cable to the starter was hanging off and the truck wouldn't start. Gunny Mercado was satisfied that it had happened accidentally (vibrated loose, etc.), so he declared the truck Out Of Service. The Truckmaster was off for the weekend and wouldn't come in since the airfield was closed anyhow, so the truck was officially 'down'. No field day on the MB5. Yay! That crew was split up and turned to helping out on other trucks.
But then Mercado went back out a few hours later and found that the cable had mysteriously re-attached itself and the missing nut re-installed. What was to follow was one of those times when good ol' Josè transmogrified into El Mercado Del Diablo. Dude went completely friggin' ballistic. Somebody had sabotaged the MB5 to get out of field-daying it, and then hid the evidence afterward.
The entire section was ordered to field-day the MB5 on our next day off (Tuesday), and we worked on that sumbitch all day long. We even waxed the undercarriage, just like old times. It was way after dark when Mercado was satisfied that we had:
A) Cleaned the truck to his satisfaction, and B) The guilty party had learned his lesson.
In a rare show of section unity, nobody ratted Cozine out. I think that pissed Mercado off even more, since Cozine had a habit of being a power-hungry fuck and Mercado was hoping one of the shitbird troops would give him up.
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Post by ARFF Marine on Feb 25, 2011 16:56:56 GMT -5
No books, No radios. Just sit on hot Spot for 4 hours and look at mostly nothing. Of course then there there were no Cell phones, hand held games, MP3 or Nooks How on earth did we survive. You do realize that books, radios, games, mp3's, etc are not allowed on today's USMC crash trucks, don't you?
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Post by dad42boys on Feb 28, 2011 16:19:35 GMT -5
I think what he's saying is that modern stuff is alot easier to hide, we did sneek paperbacks and magazines out once and a while, but the turret watch was looking out for "ambushes" from our section leaders and daywork minions. I remember coming in from hotspot and Sgt. Hogan standing there waiting to inspect us and the truck for contraband. Lord knows we didn't want to entertain ourselves out there.
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Post by apipawoheto on May 19, 2019 22:05:14 GMT -5
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