yep I agree. Wasn't hummer first used for military purposes, like in wars etc? How it came to be associated as a status symbol is beyond me. No class.
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The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), colloquially known as the Humvee is a military tactical vehicle with the usual "bare bones" finish inside and out.
AM General had planned to sell a civilian version of the Humvee as far back as the late 1980s. Having the same structure and most mechanical components, the civilian Hummers were finished in automotive gloss paint, adding passenger car enhancements such as air conditioning, sound insulation, upgraded upholstery, stereo systems, wood trim, and convenience packages. The civilian model began in part because of the persistence of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who saw an Army convoy while filming a movie.
In 1989 or 1990 Kindergarten Cop starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was being filmed in Astoria, Oregon. The Oregon National Guard has a training facility a few miles south of Astoria where my unit was participating in a training exercise. Two of my fellow soldiers wearing their uniforms and driving a military Jeep were performing an errand. When they returned they told me that in Astoria they stopped next to a "shiney yellow Humvee". The driver was Arnold! They were quite impressed by his vehicle and both gave him a "thumbs-up". Arnold displayed a didgit in the vertical position but it was not his thumb. Shame on you Arnold![/quote]
haha, you mean we have Terminator to thank for this hideosity? Maybe, Mr Arnold got so carried away with all his roles that he thought real life ought be more like hollywood too. Right.
@ Sg:
Cool man! 30 years?! Wow! So, you were in the air force? Those guys are the best.
After driving planes, how boring (and frustrating) it must be to drive a car! Did you fly a war zone?
Not that cool. I was in Army Aviation. Not Air Force. My job was an ASS (Aerial Sensor Specialist in the Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, Military Intelligence Aerial Survellance) for my first six years. If you have seen Flight of the Intruder I would have been the bombadier navigator(BN) without the bombs. We used Optical cameras, infrared, and radar. My avitar is my last flight as an ASS in 1991. I did get quite a bit of actually flying the airplane. I did not fly in combat. I was fired upon a couple of times during counter drug missions. We monitored Russian trawlers off the Pacific coast. My most memorable missions were monitoring Mt. St. Helens. Before and after the eruption. The rest of my 30 years were rotary wing(helicopters): Infantry Aviation support, Air assualt, and Medivac. I returned to "fixed wing" Beech C-12 for my final few years as VIP transport. My only deployment to a combat zone was the former Yugoslavia Feb-Oct 2000 with Medivac. The obvious thing missing in this "Combat Zone" was combat! When friends asked me how dangerous it was I would answer: There were many times I could have spilled a hot capucino on myself. Don't laugh! It was F**king hot!!!
@ Sg:
Cool man! 30 years?! Wow! So, you were in the air force? Those guys are the best.
After driving planes, how boring (and frustrating) it must be to drive a car! Did you fly a war zone?
Not that cool. I was in Army Aviation. Not Air Force. My job was an ASS (Aerial Sensor Specialist in the Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, Military Intelligence Aerial Survellance) for my first six years. If you have seen Flight of the Intruder I would have been the bombadier navigator(BN) without the bombs. We used Optical cameras, infrared, and radar. My avitar is my last flight as an ASS in 1991. I did get quite a bit of actually flying the airplane. I did not fly in combat. I was fired upon a couple of times during counter drug missions. We monitored Russian trawlers off the Pacific coast. My most memorable missions were monitoring Mt. St. Helens. Before and after the eruption. The rest of my 30 years were rotary wing(helicopters): Infantry Aviation support, Air assualt, and Medivac. I returned to "fixed wing" Beech C-12 for my final few years as VIP transport. My only deployment to a combat zone was the former Yugoslavia Feb-Oct 2000 with Medivac. The obvious thing missing in this "Combat Zone" was combat! When friends asked me how dangerous it was I would answer: There were many times I could have spilled a hot capucino on myself. Don't laugh! It was F**king hot!!!
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haha still cool man! And exciting enough by my standards anyway. It sounds great. So you saw an actual volcanic eruption too? Must have been quite a sight? I'd prefer that any day to bullets fired in combat!
Most recent "bad driver". I was on the main thoroughfare (20mph speed zone) turning right into the small grocery store parking lot. A female driver of a minivan was oncoming signaling to turn left into the same parking lot. As I turned into the driveway a full size pickup began backing out of a parking space. I was forced to stop in the driveway. The pickup was turning to their left while backing which prevented me from pulling forward until they cleared the parking space and could pull forward. At this time the minivan driver decides to complete her turn stopping inches from my rear bumper and blocking the street. Of course she starts blowing her horn while I'm thinking "Lady! You could clearly see me blocking the driveway. You could clearly see the pickup blocking me. Why did you turn and what is blowing your f**cking horn going to change"? Of course as we park side by side I get the "dirty look"!
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