It was a 4x4 V8 (4.6 I guess). The only thing good I can say about it is that it started right up at extreme negative temps, even when I forgot to plug in the block heater. It had a sunroof, but it was frozen shut. My main issue I had with it was how light the back of it was. This was more evident by how easy the backend would come out on ice with just a little throttle.

There are tons of Rams up there though, mostly diesels.

 

badass. Yea, I know what you're saying. My mom has a '98 Explorer 4.0L 4WD. Even in full time 4WD she still has a bit of trouble with sliding in MN winters.

 

Very cool maybe I will see him. I should find out if Im going up there by the end of this year. If he is going to elmendorf chances are good I'll see his truck...

I got a few pictures to add. The one of the river was from a melting glacier. It was the nicest shade of light blue. I never saw a flowing river like that with the shade of fake blue you always see on pictures of beaches in the caribbean. Anyhow the water was so pure you could drink it right out of the river with out thinking twice. I went up river to the glacier a few hours later and licked it. Tasted like a few million year old icecube.

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Here are some of the pics from the second work trip I took (just got back before Christmas). I was in the Marshall Islands on the Kwajalein Atoll for 2 weeks. I incuded an aerial picture I found on the internet of the island I was on most of the time (Kwajalein). I was working at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.

There was not a Dodge Ram in site by the way. Only vehicles I saw on any of the islands were Fords.
I did get to fish (Mahi Mahi in my right hand, Yellow Fin tuna in my left), and snorkel. Lots of great coral to see. Wish I could have scuba dive. There is lots of WWII ships and planes to dive on. It was warm and humid. Temps are 87 degrees F pretty much year round.


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Man, you get sent out to some very different extremes in temps! Great pics...how was Mahi?

 

Haven't eaten it yet. I gave most of it to a friend who was there, and he froze it and brought it home to Colorado. I still need to go over to his place and pick some up so I can grill it.

 

wow, nice trip! not a lot of places to see from the looks of the size of that island. I bet the snorkling was awesome though.

 

Sweet! I'd LOVE to scuba dive out there and check out the old WW2 wrecks. You probably saw some of that stuff even snorkeling didn't you?

 

No, that stuff is pretty far out into deep water. I snorkeled mostly near the shore on the lagoon side so I could see the coral.
Here are some pics from the Kwajalein Scuba Club website though.
http://www.kwajaleinscubaclub.com/ph...oi_planes.html

Also, there are a lot of sharks out there. When we were fishing, we lost several tuna that were eaten by sharks as we pulled them in. We even caught a oceanic white tip shark when it ate the entire tuna we had on the line. We brought it all the way to the boat before it bit through the line. It looked to be about 200+ lbs according to our captain.

Check out this yellow fin tuna head we pulled in after a shark bit the body right off in one bite. This was a big tuna too, maybe 50 or 60 lbs.





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speaking of rams vs exploders...

i ate one up with my stocker 5.9 heavy *** fatty the other day.. i was cruisin at the 3000 rpm.. i swear he was in the 10k range..... ok maybe not that high but probably 6000 puttin out all he could.. poor bastard..