Here is an article about my driving an M60 last week

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:35 pm

http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/Arti ... 20#postbox

That had to be the coolest thing I have ever done in my life. I know that for those of you who are in the military it might seem quite mundane but for a guy like me who never had a chance in hell, it is literally a dream come true.

I already had a strong respect for the military life but this past week has helped me put into perspective just how much of a workload it is.

WOW is pretty much the only word I can muster about it all.

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:05 pm

Good for you bud... awesome footage as seen Saturday.

Ttaskmaster · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:06 pm

Good for you I say, Martin.
Good for you!!!

Hell, I've been involved in several different units over the years and I never got the chance to drive a single thing. Same goes for quite a few service personnel. It's a bit of a specialty unless you work in a mechanised unit/the motorpool. I'm insanely jealous, dude

The big grin you have says it all, really!! :mrgreen:

SSgt Burton · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:34 am

Well done Mart! Once in a lifetime thing for a civilian eh? :mrgreen:

Kevin

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:45 am

You bet your BDU's it was

Funny thing is Jon, the pro who was teaching me how to operate the tanks, is a big Aliens Fan. So when I told him about our little group here, we started quoting the movie all the time

Nothing like a guy in the back of the M60 screaming real loud "Yeah but it's a dry heat" to take the edge off the stress

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Jon pop up on these boards at some point, he would certainly fit in perfectly with the people here, very generous and good humoured gentleman.

He and everyone else involved in the filming of that show made last week the best in my life, without a doubt.

punkmarine · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:27 pm

Excellent, how cool and fun was that, congrats.

Tarim-rex · **Location:** Columbia, MD

you should have made a run for the border and tried to get the "PIG" back :mrgreen:

Cpl.B/0311 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:44 pm

Cool isn't it! I got to be a loader for a week. Which was fun as I was in arty.

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:57 pm

What can I play for you, Cpl Burkett?

- ANYTHING, JUST PLAY IT LOUD OK?

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:26 pm

LOL I'm not certain I get the PIG joke.

As for the loading I was looking at the gun assembly inside and the first thing made evident to me was how friggin dangerous for your fingers that contraption is.

Airborne Mike · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:49 pm

Quote:

As for the loading I was looking at the gun assembly inside and the first thing made evident to me was how friggin dangerous for your fingers that contraption is.

It is. I gunned Leopard C1 in '82-83 and it was common for the senior NCO's to have missing fingers from the 105 mm. My SSM (Squadron Sargent Major) had half his right thumb missing, but the surgeon made the stump look like a penis. He had lots of fun with that.
By the way, my humble opinion is all tanks are death traps. (Sorry Dom)

Great to see you had fun on the M60

Mike

SSgt Burton · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:20 pm

Wookiemart wrote:

LOL I'm not certain I get the PIG joke.

It's all here Mart- not a fun story.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6898

Kevin

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:35 pm

WOW

See that's why I don't like crossing the border, 4 times out of 5 I get that sort of treatment. Nothing to THAT extent though, not since that trip down to Boston in the early 90's

.

Man I'm so sorry for you

Imagine what they would do if I decided to cross the border with the power loader and the (soon to be built) APC

sheeesh.

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:03 am

Airborne Mike wrote:

all tanks are death traps. (Sorry Dom)

Then sign me the fcuk out... I didn't sign up to die! :mrgreen:

Snake Eyes · **Location:** Toronto, Canada, Eh!

That was cool - congrats dude

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:18 pm

The official web page for the show is up on Discovery : http://www.discoverychannel.ca/showpage.aspx?sid=24790

I was supposed to be on episode 11 but for some weird tv reasons I wound up being on the show opener.

I have no clue how it turned out but I hope it will be as fun to watch as it was to film

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:34 am

Can't wait to see it... bravo.

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:17 pm

New promo video for the show : http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/clip271893#clip271893

Of course they leave all the swearing to me :roll:

SSgt Burton · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:48 pm

Okay I'm stupid... When I first read the article I must have skimmed over that this was being done for a tv show. :oops:

So this just upped the cool factor by about a 1000! :mrgreen:

So how did you end up getting picked for this show Mart?

Kevin

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:05 pm

Very simply, I saw their promo casting call and just sent in my application, one interview and a slew of documents signing my soul away later I was sitting in the M60

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:47 pm

Woot.

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:30 pm

One last reminder...

This coming Wednesday at 20:00hrs on the Discovery Chanel will be the premiere of "I Could Do That" where you can see the M60 in pretty cool action. and me sitting behind the T-bar

Just before that, Daily Planet will air an interview they did on our shoot location to promo the show. That will be sometime between 19:00hrs and 20:00hrs.

For those who can't catch the show on tv the Discovery.ca website will have the episode on for streaming one week after the original air date. Hopefully international viewers will be able to see it also, if not then maybe some alternate options can be figured out.

Hope the show will be to your satisfaction, I certainly enjoyed myself participating in it

Martin

Sgt Baldwin · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:44 pm

Can't wait to see this...

SSgt Burton · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:17 pm

I'll have to tape it, but you can bet I'll be watching it later!

Kevin

Wookiemart · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:48 pm

Here is the clip Daily Planet did about the show, you can skip ahead to 5:15

Enjoy

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/featur ... clip280856