And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I got my dozer blade stuck in the mud cleaning out a ditch. The suction was so strong I had to remove the blade and pull it out after I got on flat ground.
Real Life. And really "FUN" to recover from even from a secure area.
ReplyDeleteThe long pipe on the right of the turret is an engine snorkel; uninstalled. Not doing any good there.
ReplyDeleteRespectfully the snorkel idea would never help in a bog like this tank ended up in.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem when you weigh 60+ tons
ReplyDeleteProving pit traps work, even on tanks
ReplyDeleteThe entire NATO Ukraine mission in one photo.
ReplyDeleteThe entire Russian invasion of Ukraine in one photo.
DeleteI got my dozer blade stuck in the mud cleaning out a ditch. The suction was so strong I had to remove the blade and pull it out after I got on flat ground.
ReplyDeleteThat kid who ate paste in the Third Grade, is now a tank driver.
ReplyDeleteI heard the Hansen Brothers (the hockey players) had volunteered for the Ukie tank corps.
DeleteWell, apparently the mud hole at the tracks also. Obviously a shell hole.
ReplyDeleteit appears the engine is not immersed, so pull it out and hose it out?
ReplyDelete"Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl."
ReplyDeleteseen tanks in mud holes at polk back in the day...would take 2 88's to pull out a m60
ReplyDeleteSaw this at Stewart with M1s. Putting two heavy armored brigades in a Georgia swamp is US Army logic at its finest.
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