From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2006 - 11:40:20 PDT
I'm sorry I missed you Vinny, I wanted to meet Pat too but I didn't know how
Sonny
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> Okay Dave, here goes AAR #2 I don't know how you missed my first one. I
to do it without making a sign and hang it around my neck with my name on it
which I really didn't want to do thinking that people would think I was a
dope. Actually some on this list think I'm one of those without making a
sign but that is nothing more than being jealous. lol
From: "V SCHWARTZ" <vsaws@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Aberdeen after action reports?
> guess they do tend to be Drab. The weather was great. We only had one rain
> storm that came through early Friday morning. Every thing was cleared up
> by the time the doors opened for the public. Lots of great vehicles on
> display ( my 816 was there) Pat Lombardy was finally able to get his M114
> down to the Judging area this year. Last year they wouldn't let him drive
> on the paved lot and due to a water hazzard we were unable to circumventa
> parked POV to get it judged. Worked out well this year and He got Judges
> choice award for track armor and anothe first place for some thing that I
> can't remember. Parking sucked, they chased us all over with the trailers
> and then blocked us in when we needed to start loadiing out but they did
> their best to get us out. ( to their credit). Saw Sonny Heath's Rig there
> but he bailed out before I could catch up to him and say Hi. There seemed
> to be some empty vendor spaces, maybe the threat of rain caused some to
> cancel but I don't know for sure.There were a lot of Jeep Parts offered
> but not as much Duce parts as I would have liked to see. A couple of
> beautyful Hemets and some Humvees that were really great looking. ( in
> desert tan) there were sime reenactors camped out in the grass on the
> south side of the lot. I never got to ask them how the biviouac was with
> the rain, but they didn't look any the worse for wear. I spoke to a few
> guys that have five tons. both tractor trailers and other stuff. I picked
> up some more info on a problem that has been plaguing me for a couple of
> years. You would think that a man wo can change an air pac in a five ton
> in under an hour would be able to remember that the damn thing has in fact
> two bleeder valves on them we will bleed them again before the next show.
> Witch is this week up at the wheelswingsandtracks show in NY.I have had a
> suspicion all along that I was doing some thing stupid with these brakes.
> I hope that this is it. I heard a rummor that they are looking for some
> place else for next years show. ther is a lot of construction going on
> around Ripkin Statium this year. I don't know how much longer the site can
> support a show of this size. My wife and I bought a Jap Mule to ride
> around the show and it was a great help. guys borrowed it to shuffle stuf
> around the park and we used it for shopping also. Even with it, we still
> didn't see every thing and missed seeing some people that we wanted to
> chat with . I guess it is a lack of organization on my part We took our
> Grandson with us this year and we all had a great time. Well that's all
> I've got. sorry you missed a great show.hope you can get back in the swing
> of things Vinny----- Original Message -----
> From: <l51940@aol.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:46 AM
> Subject: [MV] Aberdeen after action reports?
>
>
>> Due to various issues, I was unable to attend this years Aberdeen and the
>> convoy. I was really looking forward to reading some good after action
>> reports. Other than some very nice convoy pics, there hasn't been much
>> about it. Maybe everybody is still bummed out about the loss of the H1.
>> Or is it all the rain? Or did it suck? Inquiring minds need to know.
>>
>> I picked up a very nice 50 cal replica last night from a local guy who
>> had a real one to model it from. He also has some really nice 30 cals
>> and a Thompson model (he didn't make the Tommy gun). If your interested
>> drop aline and I can hook you up. No other connection other than being a
>> satisfied customer.
>>
>> Dave McConnell
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