Right? Something ain't adding up here. Or Gen Dyn must used a GM bean counter "corporate axle" made from recycled pipe fittings from China that were made from recycled brake drums from China that were made from recycled,,,
It does make you wonder sometimes how many "major maintenance and production issues" with army equipment are real issues, vs. the troops fucking around and making up BS stories to cover their asses.
As above, I was in the Infantry. The answer is, "lots".
There's an old joke. Leave two Joes (slang for junior enlisted) in a locked room with three bowling balls. Come back in 15 minutes, one of the balls will be lost, one will be broken, and the last will be pregnant.
Also to add, on the flip side, if you're designing equipment to be used by enlisted men, maybe it really is under designed if it can't hold up to the kinds of shenanigans enlisted men are going to get up to. Or on the flipside, maybe the driver's course needs to include a section that says "DO NOT try to get air in your Stryker, you WILL break the fucker!"
Something I've noticed in my adult working life, is that a lot of the guys who come to work straight out of military service, usually have the social development of a highschooler/college frat boy.
Which makes sense if you think about it. You're sending a bunch of high school kids straight from school into an environment filled almost exclusively with other people who went straight from school to the military. Even the officers are mostly guys who went straight from college to the military.
I don't expect a whole lot of maturity and responsibility from what is the social equivalent of a bunch of high school kids being supervised by a fraternity pledge.
I'm sure the flip side of this is that it's much easier to build a sense of camaraderie and team between fresh highschool grads than it is to do so with 30 year olds jaded from the working world, and it's definitely easier to train 18 year olds to deal with the physical requirements than it is to turn a bunch of 30 year olds into physically fit soldiers, but it is something I've noticed, the average maturity of freshly discharged millitary guys is suprisingly low for their age.
I mean, if you give 4 highschoolers a machine gun, 4 rifles, and a humvee, you don't expect them NOT to get into trouble, right?
Basically the gist of my experience. Six months after graduating high school, somebody gave me a sack full of cheese charges and told me to throw it into a fire. I think I still see the afterimage.
You know they put explosive inside live dogs cause they knew Americans loved to pet dogs.. right? You knew that right?? So yeah an ied dog could do that
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u/Festivefire 8h ago
One hell of a dog to rip the diff out of a stryker, lol.