Driving a tank

[rboe]

I got play around on M41 tanks at the National Guard Amory. The guys there bragged how fast those things would go (and refuse to steer at top speed).

It was supposed to be air droppable, but I think it was a bit heavy for that. Sweet little tank.

[Gliderjohn]

Quote from charlie b:

Got to talking about how much uncle sam paid for us to have fun.

For a few years B-1 bombers were stationed at McConnell AFB in Wichita. A glider has priority over any other aircraft except a balloon. So one day the AF had to reroute a B-1 around me. I guessed that the reroute cost us taxpayers about $5,000 in extra fuel burn. But wow! As a taxpayer I have never had that feeling of power before.
GliderJohn

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Clearing 66$ a month as an E-4 ?  You must have had an allotment coming out before you got paid.
  As an E-1 in boot camp I got 72$ a month and only about 8 was withheld for taxes.  When I left boot camp it went up to 78$ a month.  I didn't get over a hundred until I made E-4.  Then with over two years service I was up to the big money at 124 a month.
  Shortly after that the whole military got a raise and I was shitting in tall cotton at more than 180 a month.  But some of that was overseas pay too.  We were paid in cash in those days.
 I was discharged in Jan. 65 and my job was hard labor in a steel mill and I was rich at 100 a week and only had to work 40 hours for it.

[Rough Edge racing]

  Clearing 66$ a month as an E-4 ?  You must have had an allotment coming out before you got paid.
  As an E-1 in boot camp I got 72$ a month and only about 8 was withheld for taxes.  When I left boot camp it went up to 78$ a month.  I didn't get over a hundred until I made E-4.  Then with over two years service I was up to the big money at 124 a month.
  Shortly after that the whole military got a raise and I was shitting in tall cotton at more than 180 a month.  But some of that was overseas pay too.  We were paid in cash in those days.
 I was discharged in Jan. 65 and my job was hard labor in a steel mill and I was rich at 100 a week and only had to work 40 hours for it.

 No allotment... I must be mistaken but that 66 bucks sticks in my head for some reason.. With just a few weeks left before separation I got into a argument with the platoon Sargent over stupid military procedure...We were friends but he got pissed and dragged me before the CO and got me an Article 15...fined 30 bucks and busted to E3......I met guys I would take a bullet for and met guys I push in front of the bullet...

[Chuck-D]

I was with 3d ACR from 2005-2009.  An Abrams has over 1500 hp, and will do 60 without the governor, but at some point above that, you'll drive right off your tracks.  70+ tons at 60mph. 

[dibble]

As a British Army Volunteer Reservist (TA) in the 90's I got £23.99 GBP per day paying us the extra 1p would have saved thousands of man hours accounting.