Military Vehicles on Train Near Santa Cruz
January 21st, 2012Definitely the most tanks you’ll see on a train today.
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Definitely the most tanks you’ll see on a train today.
Via: YouTube:
Almost makes me physically sick. All of this incredible expense to the taxpayer poured into weapons for killing rather than rebuilding schools, roads, towns.
Definitely don’t look at this:
The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
That’s only as of 1998.
Curses! You made me look!!
Total actual and estimated expenditures through 1996 were $5,481.1 billion.
Wait just a minute..isn’t that like…$5.5 Trillion?!
Where did I hide that tequila?
BTW…is there a reason this site is clocking London time?
The reason for GMT is because I couldn’t decide which timezone was the most appropriate for it when I installed WordPress. I just set it to GST temporarily—back in 2006…
And our very rural California school district, in which many children ride the bus for 30-60 minutes each way on steep, twisty mountain roads radiating in four directions from town, has just had it’s transportation budget for schoolbusses CUT ENTIRELY for next semester.
I am long past asking myself, “what kind of society are we?” because I know the answer. But ever so often the question reflexively pops up
So now, more traffic, including teenage drivers in a hurry on slick roads, more gas consumption, more wear and tear on cars and roads, more productive time lost in pointless driving back and forth. . .
Can anybody identify the type of vehicle? I noticed there were two types. At 1:20 there’s a few of a different type. They look like transports to me, maybe fuel trucks?
@ Lyke…
These potential clues appear in the appended comments, nestled among a steaming pile of mental compost:
“These are stocked piles of older Bradley from the cold war inventory. As you can see on the? tank @ the 2:07 mark there is a sprayed on “DL” which is code for the DRMO depot for final disposition and destruction. It is a awesome sight to behold to see how much military hardware we as tax payers have bought and ultimately just destroy. Sad really.”
“If the weapon packages were in the troop compartments, they wouldn’t be on a train. At that point, they would be on a C-17 for shipment. Tanks, IFVs, and APCs are only shipped by train without the weapon packages,? meaning they were either recently refurbished or fresh off the line, and are en route to a depot for armament and deployment via C-17. I’ve been on military bases for all but 6 years of my life, and am very familiar with their SOP…”
“…those are A2 Bradleys, not even the A2ODS variant. They were the oldest ones in the active army fleet. To convert them to the latest A3 model takes months and? requires an army depot facility. They get stripped down to the hull and turret shells and then get rebuilt with all the modifications and digital electronics. It’s kind of like converting a stock Chevy Nova into a top fuel dragster.”
“Actually they are the older A2 version of the Bradley coming from Korea… Korea just got the A3 version late last year. These are on their way to an army depot, probably in Alabama, to get rebuilt into A3s. I was involved in the fielding in Korea last year and its? kind ‘a funny reading some peoples comments. It’s also kind ‘a neat seeing them on You Tube. I actually helped load them on the train to Pusan last November in Korea.”