Numerically Challenged?

Stealhead · 06-14-14, 11:20 PM

What was always funny to me was the stuff just sitting around that obviously at some point just got forgotten about.

There was a hanger at Ramstein AB like this.My unit used it to store 6 ton aircraft jacks (For C-5s they are about 8 feet tall 6 or 7 feet around at the legs) they took up most of the hangar but there was still and good 40 or 45% space not used part of this was taken up by the seats that they can mount on the floors of KC-135 the rest was just boxes.

I got curious one day and wondered "what is in these boxes?" Tons of stuff was the answer.All manner of unused chem gear MOP suits,various filters even gas masks still in the plastic seals never opened.That was just the top layer of boxes. Mostly stuff stored up for the Fulda Gap battle I recon but never needed so it just sat.I am sure there are places like that all over Germany.A buddy in the Army told me that there where old bunkers all over the place filled with the same type equipment.All part of a bunker system started in the 70's that was never completed what was just became storage.In some places you can find sections that where prefab but never put into the ground they just took sections and placed them on the ground in the woods most of them are just on public German land now.

06-14-14, 11:20 PM	#11
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	What was always funny to me was the stuff just sitting around that obviously at some point just got forgotten about. There was a hanger at Ramstein AB like this.My unit used it to store 6 ton aircraft jacks (For C-5s they are about 8 feet tall 6 or 7 feet around at the legs) they took up most of the hangar but there was still and good 40 or 45% space not used part of this was taken up by the seats that they can mount on the floors of KC-135 the rest was just boxes. I got curious one day and wondered "what is in these boxes?" Tons of stuff was the answer.All manner of unused chem gear MOP suits,various filters even gas masks still in the plastic seals never opened.That was just the top layer of boxes. Mostly stuff stored up for the Fulda Gap battle I recon but never needed so it just sat.I am sure there are places like that all over Germany.A buddy in the Army told me that there where old bunkers all over the place filled with the same type equipment.All part of a bunker system started in the 70's that was never completed what was just became storage.In some places you can find sections that where prefab but never put into the ground they just took sections and placed them on the ground in the woods most of them are just on public German land now. Last edited by Stealhead; 06-14-14 at 11:31 PM.