O.T.-What is the most amazing thing you've ever seen in person?(Keep it clean!)

[srru86]

Only in the movies

No effing way they drop a crew loaded vehicle.

Saw that once while in ROTC Advanced camp at Fort Bragg. All us cadets were on the edge of one of the big landing zones to watch as the 82nd Airborne did a demonstration drop. Big transports fly overhead, drop a bunch of gear in packages, then sticks of paratroopers. The highlight was low altitude extraction of some Sheridan light tanks. The plane flys what appears to be ridiculously low with the big back doors open, a parachute deploys and drags the tank mounted on a sled like packaging platform that then bounces a few times and skids to a stop. The tankers that have parachuted separately run over unpack the thing and in relatively short time drive off. All very impressive.

 

[slyker]

In the mid 80's- during an RU football tailgate- on a cool October/November afternoon- in the area which has since become the yellow lot.... was amazed to come upon the sight and sounds of a stripper performing her act ! The hosts of this event had brought in 4 x 8 sheets of plywood as a dance floor and had a generator and giant sound system pumping out the dancers' favorite songs ( this was back when it was rare to have sound systems like this at tailgates) . They had also set up huge tarps around most of the area to block the wind and block the view from one side ?? The dancer eventually stripped down to a skimpy bikini and gave everyone a sampling of her best moves! A huge crowd had gathered as this event progressed and people were standing on cars to be able to catch a glimpse of what was going on. Quite a scene !! Not sure how long it was going on before I showed up, but about ten minutes after I arrived, the RU police showed up on horseback (yes.. .that is how some of the police patrolled the tailgate lots in those days) and broke it up. And many think the ATV's are intrusive.. they don't leave behind piles as these horses did on occasion. Someone wrapped the girl in a blanket and she took off out the back of the area as the cops arrived. Certainly have never seen anything like this again at a football game.

 

[stuw6]

I once took a massive bowlwinder of a dump and it landed in the exact shape of a soft pretzel. It was so incredible that I held off on wiping so my sister could come check it out. Dumb bitch flushed my amazing creation before I could snap a photo.

 

[m1ipabrams]

Saw that once while in ROTC Advanced camp at Fort Bragg. All us cadets were on the edge of one of the big landing zones to watch as the 82nd Airborne did a demonstration drop. Big transports fly overhead, drop a bunch of gear in packages, then sticks of paratroopers. The highlight was low altitude extraction of some Sheridan light tanks. The plane flys what appears to be ridiculously low with the big back doors open, a parachute deploys and drags the tank mounted on a sled like packaging platform that then bounces a few times and skids to a stop. The tankers that have parachuted separately run over unpack the thing and in relatively short time drive off. All very impressive.

What year did you do ROTC Advanced Camp? I was there in 1990.

 

[srru86]

What year did you do ROTC Advanced Camp? I was there in 1990.

1985.

 

[jmg75]

A shark attack. 1960 in Sea Girt near the south end of the Stockton Hotel. A number of years later the hotel burned down in one of the most spectacular fires I have ever seen.

 

[RedSpartan]

Yeah, the soldiers drop separately. You would have to be absolutely certifiably nuts to agree to jump inside a vehicle. They used to berm in a couple vehicles a year in training drops. I can't find it on google, but my cousin(from the 82nd) showed me a picture a while back of a Sheridan whose parachutes didn't deploy. It somehow landed right side up and if you only looked at the turret, you would think everything was okay. But then you realized that the turret was basically sitting on the pallet. The entire hull and suspension of the Sheridan had collapsed down to about 6 inches high. The turret of the Sheridan was steel but to save weight, the hull of the Sheridan was aluminum and just completely compressed down like a soda can......

Like I said you would have to be crazy to jump in one. I am pretty sure that some of the soviets used to jump in their BMDs(armored personnel carrier), these used a retrorocket system to slow the vehicle as it approached the ground. I can't imagine what the failure rate was for that....

Wait, what? You mean it's not like this?: