We once had a young troopy who was attached to support troop. Who was given the task of demonstrating the CET(Combat Engineer Tractor) firing its anchor to pull itself up a steep bank. At first he came up with the idea of having it swimming in the river Weser, but it was pointed out to him that even though the CET did swim army vehicle's were not allowed to swim. As we had a training ground not far from the camp where the whole of the squadron would be able to watch, it was decided that the anchor would be fired in the training area. As he talked through his demonstration, the crew of the CET carried out his instructions for fitting the rockets to the anchor and arming it. He got the crew to baton down the hatches for firing and with a countdown he proceed to fire the anchor. However in his need to impress the squadron O/C he had forgotten to tell the crew the most important part of firing the anchor, which is attaching it to the cable. To his surprise and the squadrons amusement the anchor cleared the training area and landed in the middle of the forest 3 miles away..
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