1.5 MILLION Russian winter uniforms are missing

[rjmt]

I just went out to put the geese up
a warm 27 deg F
but at least 1/4" of ice over the frozen mud
how does an Army fight in that, even our Kubota diesel tractor spins it's wheels
and a human falls on their butt, even with winter boots
I have ice cleats for my boots, but does the Russian Army?

 

[rjmt]

I just went out to put the geese up
a warm 27 deg F
but at least 1/4" of ice over the frozen mud
how does an Army fight in that, even our Kubota diesel tractor spins it's wheels
and a human falls on their butt, even with winter boots
I have ice cleats for my boots, but does the Russian Army?

now, I have a gravel road, but 1/4" of ice over gravel is still a skating rink
actually, the gravel looks beautiful under the ice, I know this since I fell on my butt and had a chance to look at it closely

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

Wussies…. in the freezing German winter nights we'd slap on our MOPP4 gear, wrap up in our ponchos, go find an exposed tree root to use as a pillow, and hug our M16A1's tightly until dawn.

Cold how about ice sickles in your APC when you wake up in the morning !

 

[rjmt]

Cold how about ice sickles in your APC when you wake up in the morning !

APC? how old are you?
even 3 years ago when I worked up at Ft Lewis, they had Stryker Brigades

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

APC? how old are you?
even 3 years ago when I worked up at Ft Lewis, they had Stryker Brigades

I was in M 113 A1's with bullet holes from Vietnam we still had gamma goats if that give you an idea .

 

[rjmt]

I was in M 113 A1's with bullet holes from Vietnam we still had gamma goats if that give you an idea .
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when I first move to the Lewis River Valley in 1997, there was a field up by Dike Access Road off I-5 filled with M113s
it appears Weyerhaeuser bought a bunch of them for logging up around Mt St Helens in 1980
the Mountain erupted before they could deploy them, so they sat down here in Woodland for decades
don't know where they eventually went

 

[Lazyfaire]

Maybe all the winter gear went to the 'got-aways' on the southern border.