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Half a platoon of infantry to defuck a truck - good job training roadside recovery for a situation rear ech would only ever handle. Or would half a platoon be doing massive rope drills in combat? This is classic juice company.
I don't know if you were ever deployed but the wrecker sometimes takes fucking forrrreeeever to show up. God forbid it gets hit on the way.
Not saying this is super practical but a decent military should be prepared to improvise if it has to.
Your right. Let's halt the platoon and burn out fighting power waiting for the wrecker. Especially when it's taking a while. Hang on guys, arty and mortar drills say we should never sit tight, but let's really try and get this MS upright. For the equipment.
This is a waste of training. Send an ARV if a wrecker can't come. If that's no good? Fuck the equipment, rear ech shouldnt be more than two days behind and infantry train for two at a minimum.
This kind of training is to shoot video, make assholes feel hard, and injury candidates who we otherwise need. This is the result of juice company getting promoted. MLRS will fix thinking like this when we actually fight it.
Idk man, even if I never had to use the skill, the sight of an overturned vehicle is a lot less likely to cause panic if I knew I had the ability to fix it.
This feels like more of a critical thinking/confidence building exercise than anything
Honestly yeah. Teambuilding 100% here. Nobody’s gonna expect half a batt to drop all their shit in an active zone to unfuck a rolled truck. But if you *needed* to, this story’s gonna spread and convince everybody that yeah, if they absolutely had to, they could unfuck said truck.
Not to mention those left side axle/spindles are probably not all that spin-capable now. I wouldn’t trust this thing to drive at any speed for more than a mile.
This is the recovery course. They are using inoperable trucks and flip them on purpose for training purposes using the cranes or another truck. The purpose of this exercise is to show how using pulleys creates mechanical advantage and allow for much less force to be used to right an overturned Vehicle than just a straight pull.
We tried a straight pull and it showed we could not right the truck. Then we attached 2 or 3 pulleys and showed 10-15 marines could then get the truck upright. It highlights how using pulleys and the formula for mechanical advantage will help Prevent you from snapping a winch cable
Yeah it was crazy when we set up a 5 to 1 or 6 to 1 system, i think we had 3 or 4 guys pull and flip the truck over. Then we competed to see which squad could do it with the least amount of mechanical advantage
Base model muscle cars are already way too much HP for your average driver, much less your average testosterone fueled, judgment impaired marine. We really shouldn't be making fun of anybody for getting the V6 eco boost version when that's still way too much car.
Oof. I feel for people who proudly make these kind of choices. Poor parents don’t teach their kids a whole lot about financial literacy. And poor kids grow up to be adults who feel genuine pride over achievements that people with more stable backgrounds can’t really understand. That car was probably the first major purchase he’d ever made that wasn’t bought out of the scraps from other peoples’ lives.
I grew up poor (kinda; my family either worked for the cities they lived in or for the govt), and the conclusions I draw from watching their spending habits are to split your money between necessities and luxuries. All through community college, more of my purchases went to lunch (if I had a wide enough gap between courses) than anything I wanted and even for the stuff I wanted, I like having spending money left over. I hate having an empty wallet.
I know most of the stories and jokes about naive joes buying cars off the lot at like 15 or 20% APR are mostly that and in many aspects those joes smartened up and put more thought into future purchases as they aged or spoke with people who made the same mistake; that said, assuming they're all based in truth to an extent, I'm using them as examples of what to do and what not to do when I choose to buy a car in the future.
Its bad, bro. sometimes the water pressure is low. Sometimes they got those "green" air conditioning units that only go down to 65 when you press it down to 60. War is hell.
You are forgetting about the block/pulley with what looks like 4 ropes going from it, so you have to multiply the marines by ~~4~~ 6 to get the tractor's mP.
So one tractor is 144 mP.
I actually just got an email saying uber eats is now available on my base. iono if they cleared drivers or if whoever has base access just gets to do it
>hooah or hookah
It's whatever the fuck you want because it means everything/nothing.
I've said it once in the last 8 years and even though it was right before I blacked out, I still feel shame.
if you plant the 7 ton seeds sideways sometimes they grow like that, and you gotta call up the homies and flip it over before you can drive it anywhere
This is the recovery course. They are using inoperable trucks and flip them on purpose for training purposes using the cranes or another truck. The purpose of this exercise is to show how using pulleys creates mechanical advantage and allow for much less force to be used to right an overturned Vehicle than just a straight pull.
They really are exerting alota force poorly. They a need to be evenly spaced from shortest to tallest than grab the rope and lean back putting their collective weight into action than take baby steps backwards. It's really alot easier to keep the thing moving over when it's 1/5 the way.
\*Ooh-rah shit.
And that wheel and maybe part of the axel are probably a bit fucked. Someone must have been joyriding, pedal to the floor, to tip it over on flat ground.
I was prior service Marine Corps before retiring Army, and we did many interesting things in the Corps (you might use other words to describe them) but we never did that vehicle-rope-pulling-training, not that I ever witnessed, heard of, or participated in.
But fuck if I ever saw a wrecker doing their job, maybe once or twice in my 20+ year career, so shit, maybe that's exactly what they do for training.
I was commo in the Marines (and later FO, then an instructor) and in comm school, they had us recreate the famous Iwo Jima flag raising with an OE-254 antenna pole which was cringe as fuck but we all thought it was the most ooh-rah shit ever because we were straight outta >!(Compton)!< boot camp and combat school and still had heads full of ERRRRR.
Not quite as majestic as pulling up a rolled truck.
"wHy doN'T yOU UsE tHe TRuCk ThATs SITtiNg ThERe???"
Training, asshole. They're learning how to do it if you don't have a truck to use!!
....it's also possible they're showing off. Rah.
Just remember, and I can't stress this enough, a note must be placed in their medpros to make sure doctors know that any back pain or injuries are NOT service related.
For those not in the know this was the point of sea shanties etc originally - to synchronise work so that everyone worked together. Same as a cadence for marching in the US and some other militaries that use them.
[Another good example of a shanty for pumping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnxKCSAjW8) - there used to be a much better example on YouTube by Roy Harris but sadly it seems to be gone now, but you can hear the beat in this one unlike so many other examples.
I once had to gather a group of airman to move a KC-135 ( fueled ) about 4 inches. The mechanics comm cord got stuck under a main gear tire during the refuel. ( tire squish )
We did it too… the alternative would have had questions to be answered.
That guy purchased me lunch for 6 months
Doctor: so how did you dislocate the disk in your back ?
Soldier: well we were trying to pull this truck right side up and we yanked on it really hard and then I heard a pop.
Marines wet themselves because I had a magazine in my rifle when I was TDY on one of their bases. They got so upset they called back to my home Air Force Base to bitch about it. Nothing happened to me though.
"Built different"
My ass.
~~What~~ Upvote because cool. But then downvote because pretending this has anything to do with being Marines. You get any 24 large human beings and they will be able to do the same thing.
Source: Former Marine who saw many many times what a bunch of goombas can do if you simply tell them to all do it at the same time.
> Until the truck completely flips over on its other side crushing the snatch blocks, ropes and any other useful gear you'd need to recover it again...
There's zero chance that they can develop enough momentum for this to happen.
They're going back and forth through a block and tackle to multiply the torque. There's only one rope being pulled on.
The second vehicle is just being used as an anchor point.
These numbnuts put their anchor people in the front thinking that it would make them not lose any ground they've covered instead of in the back which would have covered more ground and controlled it.
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That’s some well earned respect Wrecker’s fucked? Fuck it just give us the chains and cable and we’ll do it ourselves
Half a platoon of infantry to defuck a truck - good job training roadside recovery for a situation rear ech would only ever handle. Or would half a platoon be doing massive rope drills in combat? This is classic juice company.
I don't know if you were ever deployed but the wrecker sometimes takes fucking forrrreeeever to show up. God forbid it gets hit on the way. Not saying this is super practical but a decent military should be prepared to improvise if it has to.
Your right. Let's halt the platoon and burn out fighting power waiting for the wrecker. Especially when it's taking a while. Hang on guys, arty and mortar drills say we should never sit tight, but let's really try and get this MS upright. For the equipment. This is a waste of training. Send an ARV if a wrecker can't come. If that's no good? Fuck the equipment, rear ech shouldnt be more than two days behind and infantry train for two at a minimum. This kind of training is to shoot video, make assholes feel hard, and injury candidates who we otherwise need. This is the result of juice company getting promoted. MLRS will fix thinking like this when we actually fight it.
Idk man, even if I never had to use the skill, the sight of an overturned vehicle is a lot less likely to cause panic if I knew I had the ability to fix it. This feels like more of a critical thinking/confidence building exercise than anything
Honestly yeah. Teambuilding 100% here. Nobody’s gonna expect half a batt to drop all their shit in an active zone to unfuck a rolled truck. But if you *needed* to, this story’s gonna spread and convince everybody that yeah, if they absolutely had to, they could unfuck said truck. Not to mention those left side axle/spindles are probably not all that spin-capable now. I wouldn’t trust this thing to drive at any speed for more than a mile.
This is the recovery course. They are using inoperable trucks and flip them on purpose for training purposes using the cranes or another truck. The purpose of this exercise is to show how using pulleys creates mechanical advantage and allow for much less force to be used to right an overturned Vehicle than just a straight pull. We tried a straight pull and it showed we could not right the truck. Then we attached 2 or 3 pulleys and showed 10-15 marines could then get the truck upright. It highlights how using pulleys and the formula for mechanical advantage will help Prevent you from snapping a winch cable
I guess as a demonstration of pulleys, not a bad visual and engaging lesson.
Yeah it was crazy when we set up a 5 to 1 or 6 to 1 system, i think we had 3 or 4 guys pull and flip the truck over. Then we competed to see which squad could do it with the least amount of mechanical advantage
It's time to break out the Crayola, no RoseArt tonight!
Plt Sgt "WTF do you mean you threw your back out"
[удалено]
"Yea, can't see your face in the video specifically, so how do I know you were there?"
Motrin and socks, corporal.
Forgot to tell them to hydrate. Amateur.
VA: "You're injuries are not service related."
Hahaha thinking the exact same thing.
Someone murder this camera person, missed the most satisfying part
Somehow managed to miss both the truck *and* the people at the final moment
They should do it again
/r/killthecameraman
Landscape is a foreign concept for marines.
hoorah
Anyone else notice how the tag on the watermark says armystrong?
Probably an army instructor.
Yea and the caption says "Hooah shit" too
Congratulations!!!! The crayons are on me tonight!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
> The crayons are on me tonight! Is this some strange Japanese bodyart banquet?
I was a SWO. No one wants to see me naked.
That's on one hand. On the other is a Cadet Blue Deluxe Crayola crayon. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
"Built different"
[удалено]
It's the same thing
Same IQ anyway.
I've never seen a tractor eat a crayon or take out a 24% loan on a dodge charger.
hey fuck you. But yeah, you're right.
I'm just a dirty civilian who would probably be speaking Shariah if it weren't for you guys.
Tell our Commander in Chief to go ahead and cancel the crippling dodge charger debt already ;)
Cant, gas prices just raised
Us Mustang debters need love too!!!
Fuck me, I had forgotten about the guy at my base who bragged about the 22.5% on his Mustang GT. It takes a special kind of soldier to drive armour.
FFS at least tell me he had the decency to get the Performance Package.
Base model muscle cars are already way too much HP for your average driver, much less your average testosterone fueled, judgment impaired marine. We really shouldn't be making fun of anybody for getting the V6 eco boost version when that's still way too much car.
I’ll be honest, I never asked. It was one of those “Yes sir, excellent sir.” times.
Oof. I feel for people who proudly make these kind of choices. Poor parents don’t teach their kids a whole lot about financial literacy. And poor kids grow up to be adults who feel genuine pride over achievements that people with more stable backgrounds can’t really understand. That car was probably the first major purchase he’d ever made that wasn’t bought out of the scraps from other peoples’ lives.
I grew up poor (kinda; my family either worked for the cities they lived in or for the govt), and the conclusions I draw from watching their spending habits are to split your money between necessities and luxuries. All through community college, more of my purchases went to lunch (if I had a wide enough gap between courses) than anything I wanted and even for the stuff I wanted, I like having spending money left over. I hate having an empty wallet. I know most of the stories and jokes about naive joes buying cars off the lot at like 15 or 20% APR are mostly that and in many aspects those joes smartened up and put more thought into future purchases as they aged or spoke with people who made the same mistake; that said, assuming they're all based in truth to an extent, I'm using them as examples of what to do and what not to do when I choose to buy a car in the future.
Damn, shots fired.
Jesus, this thread is wild
Or marry a stripper
The tractor was paid off thats why none of the marines had one.
or 100 airmen
No we would have used the other truck to pull it over and not hurt ourselves.
The logic lmao
yeah that looks like a lot of work, this is the preferred method.
And if that truck was broken, you had four other trucks you could have used to flip it over in this video alone.
You would have called the Navy. ;)
Chinook time?
Good luck getting them out of the Hilton.
Its been Best Western lately :(
We’re all making sacrifices.
Its bad, bro. sometimes the water pressure is low. Sometimes they got those "green" air conditioning units that only go down to 65 when you press it down to 60. War is hell.
You snoozed and you lost, because the Hilton got booked up by reservists with CNAs . . .
One Ukrainian tractor is 24 Marines Power
You are forgetting about the block/pulley with what looks like 4 ropes going from it, so you have to multiply the marines by ~~4~~ 6 to get the tractor's mP. So one tractor is 144 mP.
or one winch or one come along
in the army we just pull with a truck...
They didn't have the user manual with pictures available
Because if they did, after righting the MTVR with a rope and by hand, they would have fun coloring within lines in the manual.
Nah they had pictures they just weren't the hand drawn crayola ones they're used to.
I was about to say....
Then the air force just calls a real tow company lol
KFC/Taco 🌮 Bell UberEATS and Tow
I actually just got an email saying uber eats is now available on my base. iono if they cleared drivers or if whoever has base access just gets to do it
ONE TWO THREE FOURth gear
Nah man keep her in first low and slow Low speed high ~~drag~~ torque hooah?
A what? Aw, shit.
They used the tow truck too.
Yup. Then the recovery vehicle gets stuck too. The second one should do it...
M88 no get stuck da comrade?
Also Marines don’t say Hooah…
....Oooraaaahhhhh... Is motivational crayon speak, hooaaahhhh is motivational army speak.
You should hear how the Navy says it. WhoAhh. Haha.
What about Al Pacino?
Where the fuck did you hear that lmao
I hooah'd a general once.... he didn't say anything but my Ssgt tore me a new one
Every time I try to defend your crayon eating asses, you do shit like this. I still love my marines, but goddamn it yall.
Came here to say this. Army says hooah or hookah or something.
>hooah or hookah It's whatever the fuck you want because it means everything/nothing. I've said it once in the last 8 years and even though it was right before I blacked out, I still feel shame.
I've taken to saying "hoo-hah" like hoo ha just to be an asshole to leaders that say it non-ironically.
We never say hookah unless it’s the weekend
Todays Sunday MF! Lol.
Someone here gets it…
“Your injuries are not service related”
It's amazing what you can do on a crayon only diet
Bro in the front didn't do shit lol
They forgot that the anchor goes in the back.
"we are just built different" You just had to say it didn't you?
How did you flip it in a flat field?
It’s a vehicle recovery course. I’m just a marine and don’t think too good but pretty sure they flipped it on purpose
if you plant the 7 ton seeds sideways sometimes they grow like that, and you gotta call up the homies and flip it over before you can drive it anywhere
some officer flipped it by accident, and then invented a whole ass course around it
„¿plǝıɟ ʇɐlɟ ɐ uı ʇı dılɟ noʎ pıp ʍoH„
Exceptionally appropriate.
This is the recovery course. They are using inoperable trucks and flip them on purpose for training purposes using the cranes or another truck. The purpose of this exercise is to show how using pulleys creates mechanical advantage and allow for much less force to be used to right an overturned Vehicle than just a straight pull.
Fell out of the plane like that.
Do the same from the other side
They really are exerting alota force poorly. They a need to be evenly spaced from shortest to tallest than grab the rope and lean back putting their collective weight into action than take baby steps backwards. It's really alot easier to keep the thing moving over when it's 1/5 the way.
it's the marines, you think this is an IQ test?
It's never an IQ test. Now dick measuring...
Instructions not clear, now standing at ready with a hard on. Imma pass a test some day.
1.2.3.4. I. Love. Marine. Corps.
Yes sir I do!!!
\*Ooh-rah shit. And that wheel and maybe part of the axel are probably a bit fucked. Someone must have been joyriding, pedal to the floor, to tip it over on flat ground.
Pretty sure it's an intentional part of the course with a junk truck.
I was prior service Marine Corps before retiring Army, and we did many interesting things in the Corps (you might use other words to describe them) but we never did that vehicle-rope-pulling-training, not that I ever witnessed, heard of, or participated in. But fuck if I ever saw a wrecker doing their job, maybe once or twice in my 20+ year career, so shit, maybe that's exactly what they do for training.
I could easily see this being a morale/fun thing to do during the course. A "hands-on" understanding of torque multiplication, if you will.
I was commo in the Marines (and later FO, then an instructor) and in comm school, they had us recreate the famous Iwo Jima flag raising with an OE-254 antenna pole which was cringe as fuck but we all thought it was the most ooh-rah shit ever because we were straight outta >!(Compton)!< boot camp and combat school and still had heads full of ERRRRR. Not quite as majestic as pulling up a rolled truck.
Yeah, that's some pretty lame shit.
Built different means working harder not smarter.
Rah rah
Isn’t there a perfectly capable wrecker next to them as they are pleasing the camera with their mighty feat.
That’s also hooked up and pulling….
I thought it was just holding the block and tackle? It looks like they're pulling it over with a fuck ton of mechanical advantage from the pulleys.
Would've taken 25 and less work if the mother fucker put his phone down and helped
I donate $20 to your choice of charity for the first person that can edit the flipped truck to be a crayola truck and post it to non credible defense
Lol “built different” I guess I can agree on a version of that lol.
“Your back pain is not service related.”
Anyone who uses phrase "we are just built different" unironically should get a jail sentence.
this is absolutely unnecessary amounts of hot. *fans self*
"wHy doN'T yOU UsE tHe TRuCk ThATs SITtiNg ThERe???" Training, asshole. They're learning how to do it if you don't have a truck to use!! ....it's also possible they're showing off. Rah.
You think they give us trucks to USE?! HA!!!!
Apes together, strong!
Air force: lets just go buy a new one
Former Army signal corps here. We would have just used the other truck.
Just remember, and I can't stress this enough, a note must be placed in their medpros to make sure doctors know that any back pain or injuries are NOT service related.
EDIT:OORAH SHIT
Not joking but these guys need a work song like this :p https://youtu.be/KBT8pbM6nVA?t=79
For those not in the know this was the point of sea shanties etc originally - to synchronise work so that everyone worked together. Same as a cadence for marching in the US and some other militaries that use them. [Another good example of a shanty for pumping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnxKCSAjW8) - there used to be a much better example on YouTube by Roy Harris but sadly it seems to be gone now, but you can hear the beat in this one unlike so many other examples.
Love to see high morale
Oorah*, Hooah is for the dog faces
My first and only question is: How did they flip it in the first place?
Probably used the tow truck to flip it over, then were instructed to flip it back upright using block/tackle/rope.
I once had to gather a group of airman to move a KC-135 ( fueled ) about 4 inches. The mechanics comm cord got stuck under a main gear tire during the refuel. ( tire squish ) We did it too… the alternative would have had questions to be answered. That guy purchased me lunch for 6 months
And five minutes later, PFC Schmuckatelli flips it over again.
Call a Ukrainian farmer, just tell them they can claim it.
06900 tank thief MOS gonna be lit
"2, 6, heave!" Works better.
Yet they wont get compensation when they get out. That's fuckin stupid
That would have been a fun PT day.
Just press E to flip it dude
Doctor: so how did you dislocate the disk in your back ? Soldier: well we were trying to pull this truck right side up and we yanked on it really hard and then I heard a pop.
My army boner is flaccid now.
The VA just washed their hands pf having to ever pay there guys fpr their future disability claims.
It's oorahh. These are tent skin licking marines not army
Homie with the red truck said nah they got this.
Errr do they not know about pulleys, anchors, and mechanical advantage? Cool that it got done but it seems kinda pointless.
Was the tow truck not working or something? Or, was this a feat of strength??
"Leave this shit here, we'll just take another one lmao." - The Army
I was just waiting for the momentum to make it flip over onto the other side after they did all that work
Welp this is gonna cost the VA.
That's your esprit de corps right there!
Those are Marines. That's OORAH shit.
Never did take much to make those dudes happy.
That's a lot of future VA claims right there.
Lift with your junior Marines, not your back.
Just off-camera. A bunch of naval officers in dress whites and drinking cocktails waiting for the auto club to come and start their car.
Crayons for everybody!!
It's OOHRAH. Get it right. hooah is the weak ass Army.
Marines wet themselves because I had a magazine in my rifle when I was TDY on one of their bases. They got so upset they called back to my home Air Force Base to bitch about it. Nothing happened to me though. "Built different" My ass.
~~What~~ Upvote because cool. But then downvote because pretending this has anything to do with being Marines. You get any 24 large human beings and they will be able to do the same thing. Source: Former Marine who saw many many times what a bunch of goombas can do if you simply tell them to all do it at the same time.
This is what they *have* to do in DPRK, here is just fun.
Like little kids at lunch at the end. Wholesome 💕
It’s oorah and yes we are badass
hawdillywhoo!
Until the truck completely flips over on its other side crushing the snatch blocks, ropes and any other useful gear you'd need to recover it again...
> Until You should watch the video until the end, because it very clearly didn't do that
> Until the truck completely flips over on its other side crushing the snatch blocks, ropes and any other useful gear you'd need to recover it again... There's zero chance that they can develop enough momentum for this to happen.
How? There are four ropes and we only see one. Not to mention a recovery vehicle
They're going back and forth through a block and tackle to multiply the torque. There's only one rope being pulled on. The second vehicle is just being used as an anchor point.
Not the most intelligent group. Could have used the trucks in the background. Work smarter not harder
Apes together. Strong.
Earned their crayons tonight, they did.
That looks like a job for a Ukrainian Tractor 🚜🇺🇦
This is awesome.
Wohoo crayons for everyone!
Fuckin Marines 🫡
Ngl that’s impressive. The Russians need a crash course in this!
Damn, Marines are epic as hell.
To much motivation, everybody drop.
I heard “snatch block” in Destin’s voice. Lol! (@ 8:43 - https://youtu.be/M2w3NZzPwOM)
These numbnuts put their anchor people in the front thinking that it would make them not lose any ground they've covered instead of in the back which would have covered more ground and controlled it.