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Old 11-22-2019, 10:31 PM   #14 (permalink)
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We had tow bars in the Army. We would see Infantrymen running around carrying them (three Soldiers per tow bar). When I, a fueler, ran out of fuel in Afghanistan (It wasn't my fault!), we didn't have any tow bars. They decided to save space and weight in our gun trucks by providing telescoping tow bars, which immediately broke, so we dropped my trailer, another truck picked it up, and they used a short tow cable to tow my truck.

Apparently nobody told them that you are supposed to use your brakes to slow down the tow vehicle. Allegedly they repeatedly bounced off the back.

I was quite blessed that nothing happened to me in Afghanistan.
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