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Comment by Wayne Dixon on November 27, 2009 at 4:07pm

Mike as far as the bilge pumps, I don't know if there was any or not. Butch said the seals leaked a little. Yes, there was a retriver there for safety purposes, never know when we might have to bring one up or
out

Comment by Mike Kultgen on November 26, 2009 at 11:52pm

Whew, the closest I came to water in a 114 was the time we had to drive one across a floating pontoon bridge during AIT at Fort Knox with a D.I. in the TC hatch. Wayne, I just looked at your pics. Not alot of freeboard when its in the water. I forget, did they have bilge pumps like the 113's and 551's did? I see in one pic the boom from an M-88 standing by on shore just in case.

Comment by Wayne Dixon on November 26, 2009 at 3:42pm

Butch, we must have floated just before I took off for the states. the photo are not to hot after 45 years. They were small, I had to go in an work on them a little.

Comment by G. "Butch" Mundy on November 26, 2009 at 3:09pm

Happy Thanksgiving to all . We used our M114s for a day or two in the winter of 64/65 be cause of a snow storm but they did not do much better then the M151s . We float our M114s ,could have been same time as your pictures Wayne ,all of them floated but we did have some seals leak on the drain plate.

Comment by Stephen (STEVE-O) Bowen on November 26, 2009 at 3:08pm

A'INT NO RAT,LIKE A BORDER RAT HAPPY THANKSGIVING BROTHER RATS!

Comment by Glenn Gutshall on November 26, 2009 at 2:55pm

Happy Thanksgiving you border rats!

Comment by Wayne Dixon on November 26, 2009 at 1:44pm

I have loaded 4 shots from floating the 113 & 114 to my float Album

Comment by Lonnie Holcomb on November 25, 2009 at 11:43pm

in 83, we took the m60a3's in side that range ,but only because the thermal tank sight allowed us to observe well past the border with the laser range finders ability to range a target. This was to enhance the GSR teams. And no, it wasn't kosher as we always bugged out before dawn, heaven forbid if we got caught in broad daylight.

Comment by Stephen (STEVE-O) Bowen on November 25, 2009 at 8:12pm

It was 1K for tanks 500 meters for APC's,we occasionally took the 113's as a back up for the Jeeps. Got followed by a gold Mercedes once,we stopped the Jeep in the road,busted out of the treeline behind him with the 113. Turned out to be a SMLLM,couldn't do anything.

Comment by Mike Kultgen on November 25, 2009 at 7:22pm

We took 113's on patrol when Regt. approved and had them at op's many times. Although one had to be careful not to point the .50 cal towards the border. Same thing went for a Sheridan, the main gun had to be oriented away from the border.

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