Does the transportation Corp still use LCUs.

I found them quite cool and sharp as an army brat.

Yes , The Army still has lcu's

enjoyed driving them.. at the time I thought they were super cool. And as an adult they are still tops.

Pa was the top LCU skipper in the Trans Corp.

Thoue he never made a big deal about it. After his passing found out alot of award and achment that he did while at the T-school and other LCU type stuff.

What the hell is an lcu???

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Originally posted by FuelPig:
What the hell is an lcu???

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

I once had an interesting night out with a female 88K. Didn't know til then that the Army had it's own navy.

Thank you.

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Originally posted by Mad_Matt:

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Originally posted by FuelPig:
What the hell is an lcu???

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

Man they have change since I was a Army Brat.. Love them LCUs.. They were tops when I was a kid.

That looks familiar. I see those everytime I drive to the parts warehouse here at Eustis. During battalion runs they sound off with their deep loud fog horns.

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Originally posted by OldGuy54:
I once had an interesting night out with a female 88K. Didn't know til then that the Army had it's own navy.

You got to be kidding me.. right???

The Army has more boats than the Navy (a destroyer or air craft carrier is not a boat).

boat Audio Help /boʊt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[boht] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
2. a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat.
3. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation.
4. a ship.
5. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.
6. a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat.
7. Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.
–verb (used without object) 8. to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames.
–verb (used with object) 9. to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay.
10. to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8).
—Idioms11. in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat.
12. miss the boat, Informal. a. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college.
b. to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation.

13. rock the boat. rock2 (def. 15).

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Originally posted by networkpro:
The Army has more boats than the Navy (a destroyer or air craft carrier is not a boat).

No they don't. The army has more "watercraft" than the navy has "ships". That's because the services use differing definitions of the words. If you use the normal definition of the word "boat", navy has army beat by a long shot.

I think this topic went Deep Six.

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Originally posted by RWLucas:

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Originally posted by networkpro:
The Army has more boats than the Navy (a destroyer or air craft carrier is not a boat).

No they don't. The army has more "watercraft" than the navy has "ships". That's because the services use differing definitions of the words. If you use the normal definition of the word "boat", navy has army beat by a long shot.

Sorry to dredge-up this topic, but...

From what I've been told (by squids), "boats" can be carried by ships (submarines excluded). Ships are technically not "boats".

FWIW...

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

That's like saying the only truck on an Army post is at the top of the flagpole.

Completely false by the way: Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical TRUCK