{"id":548,"date":"2010-10-05T13:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?548"},"modified":"2010-10-05T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:44:06","slug":"former-army-officer-swaps-car-for-armoured-personnel-carrier-to-support-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/former-army-officer-swaps-car-for-armoured-personnel-carrier-to-support-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Former army officer swaps car for armoured personnel carrier to support armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former army officer has been raising money to support armed forces by using an armoured personnel carrier in place of his normal car.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Haynes of Leamington bought the vehicle with the aim of using it for parties and other events, but has also made it the focus of a fundraising effort for Help for Heroes, the Coventry Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haynes explained it was his son who suggested using the machine &ndash; which was made in 1966 &ndash; to generate cash for the charity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If I'm not taking it to events around the country, then I'm in Leamington hanging buckets off it [to collect money], letting people see inside and answering their endless questions,&quot; he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haynes, who served in the Royal Corps of Signals for 25 years, said he has to keep the AFV 432 model at a warehouse, as his neighbours &quot;would go mad&quot; due to its noise.<\/p>\n<p>Military vehicles have also been used in another fundraising effort by troops currently in Afghanistan, with the News &amp; Star reporting a 24-person team has pulled machines including 14-tonne Huskey around a course in Camp Bastion.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Samantha Thompson<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-800099258-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=800099258\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Haynes has been using his AFV 432 armoured personnel carrier to raise cash for Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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