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Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by master_crab on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:05PM (#30909952)
Your biggest issue was choosing to be a light wheel mechanic in an airborne unit. If you think survival rates for combat dropping troopers are bad, I'd hate to show you the actual percentage of HMMWVs that drive away from a drop zone.

YMMV, but I was Army too. And everyone I dealt with was an adult.

Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by UncleEntity on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:42AM (#30915368)
Oh, fun story time…

At the absolute end of the Cold War we were on the ground crew for a demonstration jump for some Soviet generals. The wind was too high for a safe jump but, Soviets, so they jumped anyways.

Two arty cannons and a Sheridan tank burned in because they got swaying enough to collapse their shoots. Plus three chalks ended up in the trees also due to the high winds.

They (luckily I wasn’t on the hook and ladder crew) spent the rest of the day recovering the parachutes from the trees while we just tried to not draw attention to ourselves so we didn’t have to help with the recovery operation.

Only time I ever saw heavy drops go wrong and I was on ground crew many a time — there were a couple times we did have to scatter because one was landing right where we were standing but those things are easy to see even on a night jump.

Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by felipemnoa on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:40PM (#30914320)
HMMWVs

What does this acronym stand for?

Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by tapvt on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:06PM (#30914528)
To directly answer the question: “High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle” [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee

Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by HWR_14 on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:49PM (#30914375)
It's the military term for Humvee - the huge vehicle that was popular for a while when gas was cheap. Or rather "hum vee" is how it is pronounced and the civilians spelled it phonetically.
Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by froh on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:41AM (#30915980)
"Hummer" was the brand name of the consumer version:

https://youtu.be/GEMRkQmh9WI

Re:Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends... by HWR_14 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:38AM (#30916641)
I originally wrote hummer, but I thought that was a slang term. Thanks