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Where is it
« on: June 22, 2007, 02:37:18 PM »

Who knows where.

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2007, 08:10:01 PM »

Hi Don

In a river in Germany. Somewhere near Saltau.

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 01:39:07 PM »

Hi Jim, I think it's in the town of Hamlin (spelling)

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2007, 03:30:05 PM »

Hi Don

What year was that 65 or 66?

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2007, 03:44:30 PM »

Hi Jim, I say it was either 66 or 67.

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2007, 03:50:55 PM »

Hi Don

Thanx!!

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2007, 05:27:36 PM »

Quote from: Don Marche on December 15, 2007, 03:44:30 PM

Hi Jim, I say it was either 66 or 67.

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Yes Don, you are correct. The town of the Pied Piper, a story from Grimm's Fairy tales..Hameln, Germany. We used the town and river to swim our APC. I recall instructing what to do if the APC should sink, and that was do not inflate your Mae West using the bottle of oxygen until you leave the sunken APC. An officer asked me what to do if the oxygen bottle did not work? I said...take a deep breath and blow into the tube.


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Re: Where is it
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2007, 03:20:24 AM »

Good one John about blowing in the tube. That's the same river that the cammand post APC went down.

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2007, 05:27:45 AM »

Hey guys , I was there and remember it well . Mainly swam the pioneer platoon cargo career , which was a test in itself .

I was one of the guys put on night security for the tracks . They thought it was a punishment , but didn't know we had a stock of beer buried in a garbage can , with ice and all . Every night a sand barge would come in and I would party and eat with the crew , which sometimes was families ; great times . An all night party .

It didn't take to long to figure out there was something up when a couple of us volunteered to do the duty full time . The new punishment was that I wasn't allowed to stand security anymore and that others should have their turn .

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2007, 05:20:16 PM »

Quote from: Don Marche on December 19, 2007, 03:20:24 AM

That's the same river that the cammand post APC went down.

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Yes...now I remember, it did. And I recall Ken Reid, I think it was, chasing after one of his APCs as it entered the water.......the door on the ramp to the APC was still open.


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Re: Where is it
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2007, 05:30:04 PM »

I remember the story well, Ken (Crew Comd) took the carrier across and once there had to wait for a boat to go down so he went out the back door to wait, once the boat passed they got the word to re-enter so he climbed on the carrier from the front forgetting the back door. The rest like they say is history.

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2007, 06:52:48 PM »

Hi Don

Crew Commander wasn't a guy named Jack ?.

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2007, 03:24:59 AM »

Hi Jim, the crew Commander was Ken Reid I guess I didn't make myself very clear lol.

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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2007, 09:50:07 AM »

Hi Don

I apologize!! I read it wrong. What made me think that it was Jack, was the story about a carrier going down in the water. I couldn't think of his last name. Well I'll tell you something!! I woke up last night lolol and as soon as I was up lolol I kept on hearing lolol the voice of lolol, ........ Ken Read. He told me he sank a carrier. He said "you don't realize how bad you feel when your standing in the commanders hatch and you're sweating in your top half but your legs are cold lolololololol or words to that effect.

Now getting back to Jack. The same thing happened to Jack Ellis. lololololololol

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Re: Where is it
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2007, 07:51:30 AM »

Just realized...isn't 10B an A Coy carrier?

I was Tpt Sgt at the time. Wonder who is in the crew commander hatch?


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« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2007, 11:45:18 AM »

Buck McIntyre came back to London from 2 RCR in Germany in 1968. He told me about being in the back of a carrier that suddenly filled with water. He said the cam net that had been on the floor floated up and he became enmeshed in it. After a few long and difficult seconds he got loose and exited the carrier. He forgot that he was not supposed to inflate his Mae West until he got to the surface. He popped it and was really moving when he broke the surface like a bass after a bug and turned a somersault before splashing down. We did not know about PTS in those days but Buck McIntyre (RIP) was probably feeling it.
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