Tiber(TiberakaTybur on the sky)

WoW player, PC game player, and former SPI board game and D&D player

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A while back I noticed twitter has been not-fun for a while. So I began posting some of my goofy ancient Army stories. Hopefully, they give people a little break from the doom, and gloom. Fair warning, this is all out of my memory, and any actual facts are purely coincidental.

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@VesamoraAIE Happy Birthday!

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@Excella 🤞🤞

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...these trips he noticed the trailer was passing him on the right! The weight of the load had pulled the entire bumper off of the truck. 😂

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John told me a story once, about how he used the Chevy Luv in his building demolition work.

He was hauling cinder blocks from a demo site. He hooked a trailer up to the Luv, and loaded blocks on the back of the trailer, until the back of the truck came off the ground.

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Then he loaded blocks on the front of the trailer, until the truck's wheels were touching the ground again.

Next, he'd go chugging down the local 2 lane highway, at around 30, or 35 mph. With his wife following in another vehicle, with the emergency flasher on.

On one of...

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...former ride in the work parking lot, in greater, and greater stages of disrepair.

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For a few years while I was working at the Guard hangar, I drove a little white Chevy Luv truck.

Isuzu made them, and Chevy put their name on them, and imported them to the US. Chevy Luvs were hand inexpensive transportation, but they shared a major problem with most...

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...truck bed to make a trailer. Instead he did a bunch of troubleshooting, and found out the reason the Luv wouldn't run, was that the fusebox was no longer connected to any of the truck's metal.

So for the next few years, I got the uncomfortable experience of seeing my...

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@dstev98141 That sounds plenty challenging to me.

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The helicopter that fell on me:

It was just before closing time, on a winter's day, when the Cobra helicopter in question landed. Because... Pilots!

At the full time Guard hangar, we had the luxury of parking all our helicopters indoors. This is REALLY nice, especially in...

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...remember John ever having his windshield smashed in.

Interestingly, once John got a nicer car, he just didn't seem to ever run into deer after that.

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The Deerslayer:

John drove a horrible diesel VW rabbit, for quite a long time. I believe there was a 5, or 6 year period, when that car killed more deer than almost any deer rifle.

His was painted more brown than this one, but otherwise they could be the same car.

We had a...

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...running joke in the shop, that John had accidentally hit a deer... 200 yards off the road, in the middle of a farmer's field.

It seems pretty gutsy hitting deer with such a small car. Maybe John had a technique to clip the legs, so they went over the top. I don't...

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...monetary value to his labor. I feel certain he could have worked a part-time job, and made the materials to build his home, a lot sooner.

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I said the other day, that John, the senior armament tech at my Guard hangar was an "odd duck." One aspect of that, was how frugal he was. Like there is frugal, then there is cheap, then there is whatever John is.

He once bragged to us that he completed all his Christmas...

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...building. He had a small lot, with a barn, and the foundation of a burned home. He spent a lot of his free time tearing down unwanted outbuildings in the area, for the materials he could salvage.

I think this only seemed like a good deal, because he didn't assign any...

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Am I the only one wondering why the pilot abandoned a flyable plane?

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@dstev98141 Yeah, my favorite was trying to work upside down, and backwards, with a mirror.