Oops!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Gunner
Having had the dubious pleasure of commanding an M113 when it peeled out of its left track at speed, I can relate to the poor crew commander's predicament. I suspect he wasn't going too fast, especially if he was about to turn or had started the turn when the track broke.

I know what you mean! On a smaller scale, a friend of mine down in the States threw a track on his Universal Carrier at speed a few years ago, and without thinking calmly applied the brakes....

I have a picture of him grinning like a fool beside the carrier, which was about 45 degrees nose-down in the ditch beside the road. Oops! At least he was on a military reservation, so he got a local Engineer unit to haul him out. They helped him retrack the thing and he spent the rest of the day giving them all rides...