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Parachute Fails on HMMWV
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ARYankee
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Just another demil/scrap alternative. 
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That's just "flat" out wrong.
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Ran just before delivery, some forklift damage
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To me it looks like it was deliberately crushed. Where is the body?
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Lost that on the second or third bounce...
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This same thing happened when my brother first joined the 82nd AB. He was a new 2nd LT and was being "schooled" by some Staff Sergeant about the way they do it in the 82nd (I believe my brother told me that he said "stand back, LT, and watch how its done in the 82nd!"). Well, they watched a road grader get dropped out of a C130 (not sure of the plane right now) and the parachute failed to deploy. He told me that you only heard a faint whistling sound and then a loud crash as the loader hit the deck. When they drove over to it, my brother told me the grader had embedded itself in the ground so far that he could literally look over the a** end of it.
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I posted the same on g503, but I'm pretty sure the HMMWV separated from the platform. I think in that picture the HMMWV is actually upside down. the lack of body work tells me that. If they had sand filled crates in there to represent ammo, I would not be surprised if gravity started tugging on that instead.
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I'm guesstimating that it landed upside down, and the body was impaled into the ground. Then they threw the chassis back on the platform to transport it.
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You mean that this is not one of those new flat-pack HMMWVs from Ikea? Some assembly required?
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I wonder if the engine dug itself a hole to China? I bet it gets there one way or another....lol.
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EUC still required
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I guy up the road from me buys alot of military surplus.He has a hmmwv that the chute did not open on.It looks similiar.
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If your 'chute doesn't open, you will likely never need one again.
nf6x
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Who would have guessed that the minimum reducible height is about 18 inches?
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Slap a coat of paint on it and drive it! LOL! What would be more impressive (or hurtfull) would be video of it? I'm off to check Youtube....
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I think that's one of the HMMWVs being sold by Government Liquidation!
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This is one of these new inflatable HMMWV's. It is deflated while in transport then re-inflated once it reach's it's destination.
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This could be one of those experimental dehydrated HMMWV's, just add water and fluids and it comes back to life.
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This could be one of those experimental dehydrated HMMWV's, just add water and fluids and it comes back to life.
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"Fluids drained"