Ingeneous G.I.s open Mad Max in Kuwait to up armor Humvees

[RamboLiberal]

And while the Army let's Halliburton rip them off - they question these guys productivity.

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At the Mad Max shop on Camp Buehring, soldiers work through the night to prepare 2nd ID Humvees, Light Medium Tactical Vehicles, M923 trucks, M915 trucks and Heavy Equipment Transport Systems.

The shop got its name from the post-apocalyptic Mel Gibson film trilogy that features its own version of up-armored vehicles doing battle in the Australian outback. The workshop looks similar to a modern version of the sort of blacksmith’s yards that medieval knights probably went to to upgrade their armor before battle.

It is the brainchild of Chief Warrant Officer Randall Menough, 41, of Salem, Ohio, and Staff Sgt. Dennis Kenney, 36, from East Jordan, Mich., who have 40 years’ combined experience working with metal.

The pair, from the 699th Maintenance Company out of Fort Irwin, Calif., were assigned to force protection at Camp Buehring in April. But when soldiers asked them to up-armor vehicles not assigned commercial armor, they saw a demand they could meet.

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“We were going through 80 sheets(Hardox armor) every four days and they couldn’t believe we were going through that much,” he said. “They thought we were wasting metal, but then they came and saw our operations.”

[frylock]

1. big ups to these two guys..

who knows how many lives they may have saved with their fabrications. Can you provide the link?

[RamboLiberal]

2. Link - Stars and Stripes - thanks for catch my goof

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23928

Spent too much time here today - getting bleary eyed :evilgrin:

[frylock]

3. kick..

for Bubba Zenetti.

[Bosso 63]

4. D-Day then and now

After the Normandy invasion U.S. Sherman tanks were stalled by the thick French hedgerows. G.I.s in the field fabricated cutters and welded them to the hulls of tanks, which let allied forces breakout of the beaches.
Then and now, its the people on the ground that are the real backbone of our military, and I am afraid that these are the very kinds of people that will now leave the service as soon as they can. They deserve better leadership.