Re: Abrams hit by a roadside bomb [TANKS]

["Keith Wade" <wadegang-at-hotmail.com>]

Hey everyone,

these pictures have cast a very dark mood over this hobby for too long, and 
it was probably a mistake to post them in the first place. I'm not blaming 
anyone, but I thought I might lighten the mood a little with this 
'interesting' clip.

www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/stuckinmud

Just so you know who those boys are, their uniform appears to be Aussie , 
maybe SAS, on a training exercise. Considering I'm in sydney, this really 
worries me, whats defending australia again?

Friends tell me that the boatman purposefully dropped them into that mud.
Trust me its almost impossible to walk through mud like that, and these boys 
went head first. (had to walk a kilometre through a swamp with knee deep mud 
on a scout hike when our raft broke, poor knots probably. I didn't tie 
them.)

Hope all of you out there are well, and I love that tank Marc, your son must 
be real happy with his new toy. I showed my sisters and now they want one :<

James (hope you find it funny) Wade

P.S. I'd just like to clear something up.
I'm actually a kiwi imigrant with permentant resident status living in 
sydney, and I'm not Keith, I'm his son James, this is a family account and 
we all use it.
Cleaning out the spam is an absoulte nightmare,
Deleting junk mail for five people is very time consuming(sigh).


>From: John Bruder <hobbydad-at-adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>CC: Sigi <sigismund.koster-at-hetnet.nl>
>Subject: Re: Abrams hit by a roadside bomb [TANKS]
>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:47:52 -0600
>
>Generally, they use 4 or 5 152mm HE rounds set off with Det cord.  They 
>just kept increasing the size of the charge until one worked.  Most of them 
>are 1 or 2 152 rounds set off with a stand-off detonater.
>
>John
>
>
>---- Sigi <sigismund.koster-at-hetnet.nl> wrote:
>
>=============
>these are very intense pictures!
>all this mangled metal,i dont want to think, what this did to the crew.
>the blood of the driver is still visible on one of the pictures...
>i never expected that a roadbomb was able to destroy a Abrahams tank!!!
>that must have been an extremely heavy bomb!!
>i have no further comments.....
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Derek Engelhaupt
>   To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:12 PM
>   Subject: RE: Abrams hit by a roadside bomb [TANKS]
>
>
>   Well, I didn't want to start anything that's why I didn't make any 
>political comments about it.  It is tank related, but I will refrain from 
>posting anything like this again.
>
>   Derek
>
>   Kevin <ka1201-at-houston.rr.com> wrote:
>     Wait. Did I make the wrong point? Posting off topic things doesn't 
>boil my
>     blood; it is that these insurgents are killing the soldiers that are 
>in Iraq
>     building schools that their kids will go to. I'm not going to wax 
>political
>     and talk about why we are there or whether we should be there but I'd 
>bet we
>     are doing more helping than harming and we are being spat upon for it.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com 
>[mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On
>     Behalf Of WJ
>     Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:19 AM
>     To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>     Subject: RE: Abrams hit by a roadside bomb [TANKS]
>
>     I agree with you that this type of thing should be kept outside of the
>     mailinglist.
>
>
>
>
>     > I am glad that steadier hands than mine are at the controls of our 
>nuclear
>     > arsenals. Flame me if you will but that stuff boils my blood.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > _____
>     >
>     > From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com 
>[mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com]
>     > On
>     > Behalf Of Derek Engelhaupt
>     > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:51 AM
>     > To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>     > Subject: Abrams hit by a roadside bomb [TANKS]
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I normally don't post this kind of stuff, but this is just too 
>disturbing
>     > what those folks are doing with IEDs over there in Iraq. This came 
>to me
>     > from the Abrams list.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dmon722000/detail?.dir=/402bre2
>     >
>     > jpg&.src=ph> &.dnm=1c8cre2.jpg&.src=ph
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Derek (formerly SPC) Engelhaupt
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > _____
>     >
>     > Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo!
>     >
>     > Small Business.
>     >
>     >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

_________________________________________________________________
Read the latest Hollywood gossip  -at-  http://xtramsn.co.nz/entertainment