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Yes, those are Humvees falling to the ground. The idiot soldier who caused this to happen is getting his due. Stars and Stripes reported yesterday:
VICENZA, Italy — A sergeant with the 173rd Airborne Brigade has been charged in connection with the spectacular destruction of three Humvees that plummeted to the ground from a C-130 during a parachute drop in Germany last year.
Sgt. John Skipper was charged with destruction of government property and making a false official statement, brigade spokesman Maj. Juan Martinez said Tuesday.
Skipper, of the 1st Battalion, 91st Cavalry Regiment, was charged in May, Martinez said.
A recommendation on whether to proceed to court-martial following an Article 32 probable cause hearing later that month is pending.....
The charges suggest authorities believe that an equipment malfunction was not the reason the three vehicles slipped from their parachute harnesses.
The incident occurred on April 11, 2016, at the Hohenfels training area in Germany during the Saber Junction training exercise. C-130 Hercules transports dropped about 150 supply bundles, vehicles, communications equipment and weapons without incident during the exercise. But the three Humvees slipped from their rigging as their parachutes deployed and smashed into pieces after hitting the ground....
A Humvee can cost up to $220,000. The maximum penalty for destruction of government property is 10 years in prison, dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. Rest of article
4 comments:
As a former Infantry Soldier that's what I call real training! In that plane are officers, the SGT is not alone. Why didn't the parachute open and land the Humvees safely. It's more to the story!
Sabotage. Three HV's on three different planes? Sabotage. Seriously doubt it was negligence.
The parachutes opened. It's the rigging that's suspect.
Hit the link and go to the Stars and Stripes article. The comments are instructive.
I served in the Air Force and agree with the majority of commenters on the Stars and Stripes article page. The Loadmaster has final say on all equipment brought onto the aircraft. The only thing i find suspect is that the pallets were dropped from three different aircraft. That means three Loadmasters missed a rigging failure. That, in my opinion, i have to doubt. Without knowing all of what has come from the investigation I'd wager a theory that the E-5 that rigged these was on all three aircraft at some point before takeoff doing whatever he did to cause the malfunction.
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