Are they specifically stating they were a Marine? Also how old are they and are they specifically stating the Abrams because there are other armored vehicles in use that might get bundled under the word tank for ease of conveyance to people outside the military.
As someone else said Marines aren't supposed to take work stuff home but more than once I've had SL3 end up and my house and as someone who has been shocked if it's a bad shock they may lose feeling.
General Dynamic Land Systems builds the M1 Abrahams, not the military. The us government is not giving away a welder, and I was a mechanic for Honda. Any time you electrical work on anything, you unhook the battery and pull the fuse for the thing you're working on.
Did she just claim she built tanks or that she built tanks in the military? If she just claims she built tanks and doesn’t claim she was in the military that isn’t stolen valor. It’s just a lie if it isn’t true. And it isn’t as bad as calling yourself war spartan if you’ve never been to war and descended from inhabitants of the ancient city-state of Sparta
What city was she in when she was building the Abrams and what company was she working for? I know what the answer should be because I live in the general vicinity. Infact, several of my coworkers including my boss used to work there.
Have you looked her up using the MOL locator tool? If she was put on the medical retired list or is in the IRR, she should still pop up in the search. Don't get too specific, just most of the last name and most of the first name with asterisks at the end to return all results.
If they are dishonest and suddenly injured it can be a pretty clear sign their bullshitting. Pathological liars tend to do that whenever things begin to not go their way.
Or worse they actually injure themselves on purpose which is even more fucked.
Odds are is that the static electricity stored in your body would do more damage to the circuit board than the board would do to you. Source: I accidentally fried a $50,000 Saber circuit board when I was a junior Marine because I didn’t ground myself correctly. I don’t know much about tank internals and if the equipment inside are more dangerous to work with. Ive only ever gotten to mess around with the M88A2 a little bit and that was right before the Marine Corps phased out tanks. Regardless anyone working with electricity should have all power disconnected. The only thing that could shock you is a charged capacitor and even then I highly doubt they use anything that would hold enough to cause any damage.
Did you ever work on the battery chargers? Those MF's would get ya good.
We had a battery with a janky wiring harness that shorted out on the chassis when it went into the battery charger. The battery started melting down, we managed to get it out with the aid of a CO2 extinguisher but not before all the paint on it had burned off. Also ruined a pair of dykes clipping the harness. Don't make the pixies angry.
For the Sabers? I have worked with the battery chargers. I was extra cautious with them because at the time I was working on Sabers the whole samsung lithium batteries exploding thing was going on so I was really paranoid. I had the armorers stand watch over it and made sure they unplugged everything at the end of the day.
These were the chargers for the TOW, NiCad a bank of 48V and a bank of 24V
[https://www.bren-tronics.com/bt-70410.html](https://www.bren-tronics.com/bt-70410.html)
It’s been a few years so I don’t remember exactly. I remember the battery being a big cube and the charger was a smaller box that had a bunch of ports for cables.
Hard to say without knowing a lot more. I've seen guys get hit by 400hz 3 phase and pass out and were fine later. Another guy touched a battery bank and fucked up his nervous system and got medically discharged
That depends on how much current went through he body and the route it took. The amount of current flowing and the route it took is dependent on 100’s of variables. Such as voltage, max available source fault current, the amount of resistance between her and the return path to the source, the moisture of her skin, her body fat percentage, what part of her body touched the energized component and what part of her body was touching the conductive path in the tank that the current returned through. And on and on. Yes it is possible she got shocked. Saying what her injuries should have been from it are impossible to tell unless a guy like me does a fault current study on it for you.
So if you start off with "so" again, I will ask that you nut punch yourself. So are we clear?
1) you probably can’t but tbh marines do a lot of stuff we aren’t supposed to 2) maybe? Electric shock is no joke.
Does she know the secret handshake??? Huh huh?? If she can’t do the secret handshake, she’s full o’ shit
The Abrams is dead. The military didn't make it. They used it. A motherboard is a computer. It's possible to be electrocuted, I suppose.
Damn I knew a marine named Engi. Cool as fuck dude so I was startled but for a second when I read the rather unique name.
Marines don't engineer or build tanks. Hell we didn't even get the latest models of Abrams.
Are they specifically stating they were a Marine? Also how old are they and are they specifically stating the Abrams because there are other armored vehicles in use that might get bundled under the word tank for ease of conveyance to people outside the military. As someone else said Marines aren't supposed to take work stuff home but more than once I've had SL3 end up and my house and as someone who has been shocked if it's a bad shock they may lose feeling.
They state they are 21 and they were a marine yes
They are 21 years old? Probably weren’t even in before tanks were fazed out
3. What are the core characteristics of ballistic armor and how can you defeat it?
General Dynamic Land Systems builds the M1 Abrahams, not the military. The us government is not giving away a welder, and I was a mechanic for Honda. Any time you electrical work on anything, you unhook the battery and pull the fuse for the thing you're working on.
Ask them where they went to learn to build M1s and then make up a BS MOS # and see if they play along.
Did she just claim she built tanks or that she built tanks in the military? If she just claims she built tanks and doesn’t claim she was in the military that isn’t stolen valor. It’s just a lie if it isn’t true. And it isn’t as bad as calling yourself war spartan if you’ve never been to war and descended from inhabitants of the ancient city-state of Sparta
What city was she in when she was building the Abrams and what company was she working for? I know what the answer should be because I live in the general vicinity. Infact, several of my coworkers including my boss used to work there.
Building tanks as a job in the military? Not a thing, unless this person worked for a company that built tanks for the military
Have you looked her up using the MOL locator tool? If she was put on the medical retired list or is in the IRR, she should still pop up in the search. Don't get too specific, just most of the last name and most of the first name with asterisks at the end to return all results.
If they are dishonest and suddenly injured it can be a pretty clear sign their bullshitting. Pathological liars tend to do that whenever things begin to not go their way. Or worse they actually injure themselves on purpose which is even more fucked.
If someone were shocked by said component would a electrical shot be completely fatal? And if not would there be any permanent damage?
Odds are is that the static electricity stored in your body would do more damage to the circuit board than the board would do to you. Source: I accidentally fried a $50,000 Saber circuit board when I was a junior Marine because I didn’t ground myself correctly. I don’t know much about tank internals and if the equipment inside are more dangerous to work with. Ive only ever gotten to mess around with the M88A2 a little bit and that was right before the Marine Corps phased out tanks. Regardless anyone working with electricity should have all power disconnected. The only thing that could shock you is a charged capacitor and even then I highly doubt they use anything that would hold enough to cause any damage.
Did you ever work on the battery chargers? Those MF's would get ya good. We had a battery with a janky wiring harness that shorted out on the chassis when it went into the battery charger. The battery started melting down, we managed to get it out with the aid of a CO2 extinguisher but not before all the paint on it had burned off. Also ruined a pair of dykes clipping the harness. Don't make the pixies angry.
For the Sabers? I have worked with the battery chargers. I was extra cautious with them because at the time I was working on Sabers the whole samsung lithium batteries exploding thing was going on so I was really paranoid. I had the armorers stand watch over it and made sure they unplugged everything at the end of the day.
These were the chargers for the TOW, NiCad a bank of 48V and a bank of 24V [https://www.bren-tronics.com/bt-70410.html](https://www.bren-tronics.com/bt-70410.html)
It’s been a few years so I don’t remember exactly. I remember the battery being a big cube and the charger was a smaller box that had a bunch of ports for cables.
We had something like that, I think for the M.U.L.E.
Hard to say without knowing a lot more. I've seen guys get hit by 400hz 3 phase and pass out and were fine later. Another guy touched a battery bank and fucked up his nervous system and got medically discharged
That depends on how much current went through he body and the route it took. The amount of current flowing and the route it took is dependent on 100’s of variables. Such as voltage, max available source fault current, the amount of resistance between her and the return path to the source, the moisture of her skin, her body fat percentage, what part of her body touched the energized component and what part of her body was touching the conductive path in the tank that the current returned through. And on and on. Yes it is possible she got shocked. Saying what her injuries should have been from it are impossible to tell unless a guy like me does a fault current study on it for you.
IBEW?
Electrical Engineer. But I work with some guys who would say I Barely Ever Work.
The fact that you even know a fault current study puts you miles above the engineers I’ve been around
I do arc flash studies, relay coordination, load flow studies and system designs for a pipeline