Veterans On the Board

JoeSBP said
No truer words. This movie came out the year I joined the Army.. The Pentagon Wars (TV Movie 1998) - IMDb

Personally I rolled in a beautiful M88A1 that was built the same year I was born.
Her name was Fairuza Bulk.
In the day time her cadillac soft suspension carried me around the training areas of Ft Hood, recovering and pulling pack on wayward Bradleys, M113s, M577s, LMTVs, FMTVs, HEMTTs, and the occasional Abrams. At night I drifted off to sleep, cuddled up to her big warm hydraulic fluid filled belly.

Eventually dealing with mouthbreather operators turned me bitter and I left the motorpool to pursue my career as a crunchy in special operations.
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That is awesome. I spent most of my time in an 818 5t 6x6 recovery truck. I later upgraded to the 10t 8x8 MAN recovery truck in Germany. (I don't remember the designation, 1002?)
I wasn't dealing well with the transition of old army to the new army. Steel pots weren't the only thing from the Viet Nam era they were dumping, if you know what I mean. So I turned down a bonus for reupping and cross training at Ft. Huachuca, did some time in the reserves and called it a day.