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[rob love]

Originally Posted by Scott Bentley

IIRC, the 3 Way Dump(s) in TFA were setup for SNIC (Sander and High-speed Plough) which although useless in KAF, saved NATO's bacon by opening the snowed in Jalalabad pass east of Kabul on my 2005 Roto. No one else in Kabul thought it was prudent to have a Snowplough in their TO&E except Canada

I always wondered why we had a sanding attachment in KAF. That would be akin to sending ice making machines to the arctic. We had to inspect and service the thing every 6 months, and as far as I knew it remained in KAF until the end. It is possibly still there, as is several hundred sea containers of material still.

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by rob love

I always wondered why we had a sanding attachment in KAF. That would be akin to sending ice making machines to the arctic. We had to inspect and service the thing every 6 months, and as far as I knew it remained in KAF until the end. It is possibly still there, as is several hundred sea containers of material still.

Before Hesco Bastion became the flavour of the day in force protection, the sander was actually also very handy for filling sand bags. Not sure if some genious designed it that way or some enterprising field troopy realized it, but it sure saved your back when filling hundreds of bags. But yeah, in KAF, the 3 Way Dump would have been as useful as snowshoes