The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, also known as the HMMWV or Humvee, boasts 37-inch tires, climbs up to a 40 percent grade and when properly outfitted can ford up to 60 inches of water. But in one instance this spring the rugged vehicle was no match for a Montana dirt road.
A HMMWV belonging to the United States Air Force security forces charged with patrolling Minuteman III missile sites near Grass Range was abandoned by its crew last week after it got stuck in a mudhole on Fairview Road.
The Air Force tried to remove the HMMWV three times in the last several days but the muddy conditions made the attempts unsuccessful. Crews will work to remove the vehicle again Tuesday with a tow truck, said Connie Hempel, public affairs chief at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
Hempel said the airmen in the HMMWV were driving either to or from the missile site on Fairview Road when they became stuck. They had to walk out of the area carrying their weapons and other equipment, leaving the vehicle in the mud. The stretch of road they were on was not a usual route, but it wasn’t an unauthorized area.
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