I'm kind of embarrassed to ask, but...

[Jessie]

There's a guy who works for a friend of mine who is unique, to say the least.
He told me that when he was in the Army, he was a truck driver.
Ok, no biggy.
It gets big when he said that he rode his Duce and a half out of the back of a C-130 while strapped into the seat of the truck,
This would be a skid drop.
Now, has anyone who had anything to do with a skid drop ever heard of launching a vehicle with the driver strapped on board in the seat?
I'm calling a big BS on this, but I don't know this for sure.
Has anyone ever heard of something like that happening?
It was not in a war scenario either. Maybe the late 80s.
I've seen vehicles dropped and skidded, but none with the driver on board.

 

[Bajadoc]

I was in the 82nd Airborne and never saw a heavy drop with people inside. The thought of it is ridiculous. I think you are on firm ground calling BS on that war story.

 

[Bkreutz]

Maybe, maybe, maybe in a combat drop, crazy things happen when you're doing it "for real". In a peacetime or training scenario, never. No one would want to take the responsibility. I've seen a number of LAPES packages cartwheel instead of sliding.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've seen C-130 JATO and C-123 rolling skid drops all without drivers on board. Doesn't mean it didn't happen at white horse units or hot lz's elsewhere.

Then again, at DaNang, I spent most of my time at the "Rocket City 33 Bar and pro station. I tried to stay out of Loadmaster politics as they were piraticle about their winged frigates.

Who knows what nutso things happen in the Bush under bizarre circumstances. I've learned that nothing is impossible.

 

[Rastoff]

Total BS. In fact, the driver wouldn't even be on the same plane let alone in the vehicle.

 

[rwsmith]

I BELIEVE....

I'll have to check it out, but I think the Sovs used to do skid drops with a manned TANK.

I did find this and it's more recent. Look at all those parachutes, especially when they cut loose. They make a pretty pattern.

 

[steveno]

I don't think that a deuce and a half will even fit in the back of a C-130. maybe it will but it would be a tight fit

 

[vonn]

Only thing I know for sure is that it would not be me in the truck!

 

[DWalt]

Definitely calls for blowing the BS whistle.

 

[OS-Wiz]

My bovine excrement meter is max'ed out.

 

[Jessie]

The replies are pretty much what I figured.
This also wasn't a one time event, but every time he and his truck were "delivered".
I think I'll have some fun with said individual in the future.

 

[Retired LTC USAR]

Can you imagine what the jolt would be if you were strapped into a seat of a vehicle that hit the ground going at that speed!

Don't believe the body could handle that force.

 

[handejector]

I know the answer, but as a Navy Seal and former Green Beanie, I'm sworn to secrecy.

Sorry.

 

[zzzippper]

It doesn't pass the sniff test. Someone would still have to disconnect the truck from the skid/pallet so what would be the benefit?

 

[JSR III]

I used to do that all the time when I was in the big war, unfortunately, the last time when the truck landed badly, I was killed....

 

[handejector]

I used to do that all the time when I was in the big war, unfortunately, the last time when the truck landed badly, I was killed....

My condolences!

 

[eddie68]

Double bs, or he was 6'8 when entered army and came out 4'6".
Eddie

 

[THE PILGRIM]

A friend of mine got a bad back compression in a F-4 crash down in Tampa.
Another guy I know got the same thing in a helocopter crash in Laos.
But they were both in the Air Force, not the Army.

 

[LostintheOzone]

I don't think that a deuce and a half will even fit in the back of a C-130. maybe it will but it would be a tight fit

I saw a motor coach in a C-130. Probably belonged to a Wing Commander. Not sure how that would compare to a 2.5 but it was a big vehicle. The driver wasn't in it.

 

[GRU_ 7_ mech]

Pretty much same answer of BS as if someone told me they say the Admirals barge dropped of the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson into Hong Kong harbor........ with the coxswain in it.