mjw4669
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How's it going my fellow soldiers??
I signed up a few days ago and after a little poking around I like what I see and have decided I'm here to stay!
A little about myself
My name is Matt Williams, I'm a 25 year old SSG in the Army National Guard. I hold the MOS of 91B - wheeled vehicle mechanic and 91L- Construction equipment repairer. My "civilian job" is a federal technician at the local FMS (field maintenance shop) I basically get to play army every day and still live in my home town. Couldn't ask for a better job. I have some experience with CUCV's, M35's and 800 series trucks, but most of them were already on the way out around the time I got in. A few are still lingering around, but not too many. The more modern trucks like 900 series, HEMTT's, FMTV's, 916's and all types of engineer equipment are my babies. We work on those daily back home.
I am currently in the middle of a deployment to Afghanistan with an engineer unit. This will be the LAST time I deploy with an engineer unit! Their motto is HEAVY JUNK. and that is 100% true! All of the equipment over here is used and abused every single day. When I go out on convoys for projects I have the honor of driving and sometimes living in a 1987 M944... aka bat wing/ battle cat/ bat mobile. Pretty neat truck... if it was 20 years newer. It's a little shady to be driving around in a 23 year old 5 ton with a light armor kit on it when half the other people have brand new MRAP'S and A4 HEMTTS. oh well. she hasn't let me down yet! I have some experience working on MRAPS over here. Most are still under warranty and are repaired by the civilian's over here making 150K+ a year ( yeah im not bitter about that at all
). The only time we get to mess with them is when they break down outside the wire or on the smaller FOB's
I drive a lifted 02 wrangler with just over 25k miles on it. Rolling on 35 inch rubber. Rubicon D44 with air locker up front and a Ford 8.8 with locker in the rear. 1/4 inch rock armor all over, custom tube fenders, and plenty of dings dents and scratches to show it's not just a mall crawler. I also own a 04 Infinity G35 coupe and a 05 Ninja 636. Won't go into much detail about those... figure MV guys wont care.
Once I get out of this dump of a country I plan on getting a Bobbed deuce, so the next few months i'll be learning as much as I can whenever i have internet access! Any questions/comments feel free to post away
I signed up a few days ago and after a little poking around I like what I see and have decided I'm here to stay!
A little about myself
My name is Matt Williams, I'm a 25 year old SSG in the Army National Guard. I hold the MOS of 91B - wheeled vehicle mechanic and 91L- Construction equipment repairer. My "civilian job" is a federal technician at the local FMS (field maintenance shop) I basically get to play army every day and still live in my home town. Couldn't ask for a better job. I have some experience with CUCV's, M35's and 800 series trucks, but most of them were already on the way out around the time I got in. A few are still lingering around, but not too many. The more modern trucks like 900 series, HEMTT's, FMTV's, 916's and all types of engineer equipment are my babies. We work on those daily back home.
I am currently in the middle of a deployment to Afghanistan with an engineer unit. This will be the LAST time I deploy with an engineer unit! Their motto is HEAVY JUNK. and that is 100% true! All of the equipment over here is used and abused every single day. When I go out on convoys for projects I have the honor of driving and sometimes living in a 1987 M944... aka bat wing/ battle cat/ bat mobile. Pretty neat truck... if it was 20 years newer. It's a little shady to be driving around in a 23 year old 5 ton with a light armor kit on it when half the other people have brand new MRAP'S and A4 HEMTTS. oh well. she hasn't let me down yet! I have some experience working on MRAPS over here. Most are still under warranty and are repaired by the civilian's over here making 150K+ a year ( yeah im not bitter about that at all
). The only time we get to mess with them is when they break down outside the wire or on the smaller FOB'sI drive a lifted 02 wrangler with just over 25k miles on it. Rolling on 35 inch rubber. Rubicon D44 with air locker up front and a Ford 8.8 with locker in the rear. 1/4 inch rock armor all over, custom tube fenders, and plenty of dings dents and scratches to show it's not just a mall crawler. I also own a 04 Infinity G35 coupe and a 05 Ninja 636. Won't go into much detail about those... figure MV guys wont care.
Once I get out of this dump of a country I plan on getting a Bobbed deuce, so the next few months i'll be learning as much as I can whenever i have internet access! Any questions/comments feel free to post away
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