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Here's a post from the Guntruck site:
Larry, CAMO Crew, donated a 1945 USMC Trench Machine to the Marines.
Mark, Troy and Tony started prepping the trencher for it's C17 flight to Camp Pendleton, California from Lawson Army Airfield at Fort Benning, Georgia.
It will be moved out to the airfield on Ft. Benning tomorrow afternoon and the air movement folks will take it from there. Should fly out the weekend of the 26th!!
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UPDATE: Trencher delivered to airfield. After Action Report by Mark:
ALCON:
Mission went like clock work today. Larry's team loaded the excavator without incident after a final steam cleaning and conducted a uneventful march to Lawson Airfield, Fort Benning GA, where they were met by Mr. Mike Roberts and his team from the ADAG (Arrival and Departure Airfield Control Group).
Mike and his team had rolling/parking shoring and 2-463L Aircraft Pallets spotted and on an Air Force K-Loader with a front end loader and chains standing by to extract the excavator from Larry's truck. That operation was flawless with Larry's team (Troy and Tony) doing some quick modification to the truck ramp with 4x4 beams to match heights on the K-Loader ramp. Needless to say, pulling the excavator onto the pallets and K-Loader took all of 5 minutes. It was the proverbial thing of beauty.
After some minor adjustments of the trenchers business end (Excavator Buckets) the trencher was chained into place on the pallets and is ready to load onto the C17 Aircraft per the load-out instruction put together by the team from Wright Patterson Air Base. Outstanding team work and an exceptional level of experience from both Mike and Larry's folks made the mission a pleasure to watch.
Agree with LTC Turley in every respect .. lots of folks here drinking from that same canteen.. Just an observation, all of the folks on 1SG Larry Board, USA (Ret) team are Army Vets. 1SG Mike Roberts USA (Ret) and his team are all vets too. Its a privilege to be associated with such a "August" group of folks.
One final Kudo; I am more than impressed with Bob's successful efforts in putting this airlift together. The folks at both the ADAG and the Log-Toad (Logistics Office) were blown away by the fact that this Air Force C-17 was coming into Benning to pick up a USMC Excavator. Gotta admit that 1SG Board and I had huge sh*t eating grins as we conducted our coordination meetings to put things in motion here. I'm sure these gents are still trying to figure out what kind of suck we have to make this happen!
Larry, CAMO Crew, donated a 1945 USMC Trench Machine to the Marines.
Mark, Troy and Tony started prepping the trencher for it's C17 flight to Camp Pendleton, California from Lawson Army Airfield at Fort Benning, Georgia.
It will be moved out to the airfield on Ft. Benning tomorrow afternoon and the air movement folks will take it from there. Should fly out the weekend of the 26th!!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
UPDATE: Trencher delivered to airfield. After Action Report by Mark:
ALCON:
Mission went like clock work today. Larry's team loaded the excavator without incident after a final steam cleaning and conducted a uneventful march to Lawson Airfield, Fort Benning GA, where they were met by Mr. Mike Roberts and his team from the ADAG (Arrival and Departure Airfield Control Group).
Mike and his team had rolling/parking shoring and 2-463L Aircraft Pallets spotted and on an Air Force K-Loader with a front end loader and chains standing by to extract the excavator from Larry's truck. That operation was flawless with Larry's team (Troy and Tony) doing some quick modification to the truck ramp with 4x4 beams to match heights on the K-Loader ramp. Needless to say, pulling the excavator onto the pallets and K-Loader took all of 5 minutes. It was the proverbial thing of beauty.
After some minor adjustments of the trenchers business end (Excavator Buckets) the trencher was chained into place on the pallets and is ready to load onto the C17 Aircraft per the load-out instruction put together by the team from Wright Patterson Air Base. Outstanding team work and an exceptional level of experience from both Mike and Larry's folks made the mission a pleasure to watch.
Agree with LTC Turley in every respect .. lots of folks here drinking from that same canteen.. Just an observation, all of the folks on 1SG Larry Board, USA (Ret) team are Army Vets. 1SG Mike Roberts USA (Ret) and his team are all vets too. Its a privilege to be associated with such a "August" group of folks.
One final Kudo; I am more than impressed with Bob's successful efforts in putting this airlift together. The folks at both the ADAG and the Log-Toad (Logistics Office) were blown away by the fact that this Air Force C-17 was coming into Benning to pick up a USMC Excavator. Gotta admit that 1SG Board and I had huge sh*t eating grins as we conducted our coordination meetings to put things in motion here. I'm sure these gents are still trying to figure out what kind of suck we have to make this happen!
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