Battle Damage

I know that posting pics of battle damage is verboten, but I figured that this would be OK. This cardboard HMMWV was the product of a combination of too much caffine and too little to do plus a bit of ADHD. Then my son got ahold of it and did some of his own expedient modifications.

Time to send it to G.L.!

Perhaps...but then it will require an EUC, take months to get back...and then years later you'll get a note saying how DoD wants it back to chop it up...

I believe it is against Steel Soldiers policy to show after-action pics showing the battle damage of US military vehicles. Please remove this thread, we wouldn't want terrorists to know how to destroy cardboard HMMWVs!!!

The good news is we now have photo proof of residential attacks by terrorists. I have also come accrossed several plastic HMMWV's and other military vehicles distroyed and damaged by simmular young "activeists" The public should be warned!!!

The best part of it is that whenever my son gets his hand on the Humvee is that my daughter (she is 4 years old) points at him and yells "Godzirra! Godzirra!" while shielding her forehead with the other hand!
That is some good old fashioned humor right there!


...at least I think it is funny. Her mom thinks that I am ruining the little ones with my tomfoolery!

Glad to see you using your son for the demil. Keep it in the family.

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ida34 said:

Glad to see you using your son for the demil. Keep it in the family.

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Yeah, that's what I said. Mom wanted to throw the thing away! Throw it away! Can you believe that woman!

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you don't have a "before deployment" picture do you, that is really trick! fortunately, a few days at depot and it should be back to 0 miles.

The "pre-deployment" pics are on my camera. My camera is on R&R right now. I'll try to get them up here in a day or two. The first iteration (the A1 model) had some huge, monster-truck style tires on it. That didn't look right, (plus the combination of tires/gearing put the engine out of range for it's duty cylce), so I sent it back to the motor pool for upgrade to A2, the proportional tires you see here. The A2 upgrade also included some actual springs in between the little cardboard A-arms.

You son did not demil the camera too did he? I had my kids demil several vital pieces of equipment over the years.

ida34 said:

You son did not demil the camera too did he? I had my kids demil several vital pieces of equipment over the years.

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Hah, no it wasn't my son this time, it was me. This is the 4th camera in under 12 months to die by droppage.

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bugei said:

you don't have a "before deployment" picture do you, that is really trick! fortunately, a few days at depot and it should be back to 0 miles.

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Finally got the "before deployment" pic: