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4/73 ARMOR
2-70 ARMOR E TRP 2/3 ACR ALL BEFORE 1983 |
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Co C, 1st Bn 803d Armor WAARNG, Bremerton, WA 1976 to 1986 M-Day and AGR.
I also went to the M60A1/A3 Master Gunner Course in the fall of 78 with a guy from 4/73 Armor. Then in 1982 we did part of our annual training at Panzer Kaserne. After 4-5 days we then road marched down to that little LTA/gunnery training range down south. But I can't remember the name of it.???.. Panzer Kaserne was a wonderful little post, very rich in history. And southern Germany was a great place to road march through. This message has been edited. Last edited by: IC2SS19Z50C5, |
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1/37 Armor, 1st Bde, 1st AD
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Basic Training, Ft. Knox, 1980 (M60A3)
3/68th Armor, 8th Inf., Germany, 1980-83 (M60A1 & M60A3) 1/63rd Armor, 1st Inf., Ft. Riley, 1983-84 (M60A1) 1/72nd Armor, 2nd Inf., Korea, 1984-85 (M48A5 & M60A3) 1/34th Armor, 1st Inf., Ft. Riley, 1985-86 (M60A1) I also served in the New Jersey Guard later on M1s, but the M60 was my first love!!!! After serving almost 28 years, 13 active and 15 reserve, I really missed being on them... Trust me, life as a Tanker was hard, but good... I didn't realize it till I changed my MOS!!! |
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I could have not said it any better myself... And it SURE beat walking!!!! |
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"Three Bongos" 3-B HHC/CSC and Bravo Co. 3D Bn 33d Armor, Ayers Kasern, Kirk Geons/Butzbach, 1971-3.
M-60A1 Dozer Tank Hard and COLD!! (Graf) Wandering and Wondering |
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B Co 2/32 AR Ayers Kaserne Kirchgoens Germany '84 - 86. Transitioned to M1 just as I was leaving
HHC Commo Section 4/64 AR "Tuskers" Ft Sewart GA 86 - 87. They switched to the M1 after I got there but since I was assigned to Commo section so never got to use an M1 but worked on them. |
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B 5/32 Ft. Stewart 86-88 Driver B-65. The only time that piece of junk blade worked was when we turned the tanks over to TAACOM. I was lucky enough to see the 60a3 all the way to M1A2 in 3/8 CAV at Ft. Hood. I did enjoy those old taks!
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M60A3s from '91 to '97. They always ran.
When you took 14 to the range, 14 went down range. That was nice. No service in, but alot of time hanging out in and working on my dad's M48A5 when I was kid. Smooth smooth must remove, rough and smooth in the groove, rough and rough, not enough. (In an M1, the recuperator is fed from a transparent plastic tank. You can actually see how much fluid you have left.) You might have seen one of my Battalion's tanks on World's Greatest Police Chases.  In 2003, Years after we'd transitioned to Abrams, we were dismounted and assigned security force duty out at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. One day, a bunch of us climbed into two Humvees and went exploring (4x4ing is what we actually doing) Miles away from anything we came across this little pass in the mountains next to a dry lake. There was a shack, and all sorts of old armored vehicles. There were six or seven old M60A3s. They'd obviously been there a while. Most had their loaders' seats ripped out. A couple of us old guys climbed in and they started right up! Well hell, no one was watching (we thought) so we took two for a short spin. This old civilian guy comes running out of the shack very "curious" as to what the **** we thought we were doing. We explained and apologized, told him we missed the old gals, and pretty soon we were good friends with an invite to come work on, drive his tanks whenever we wanted. They were target tanks set aside for Air Force weapons tests. So we could break 'em, we just couldn't take 'em too far. They had a bunch of SGT Yorks out there too. |
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M60A1 R P 1986 to 1991 USMC
M1A1 1991 to 1992 USMC M60A3 1992 to 1993 USAR M1IP 1993 to 1995 USAR |
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Hey, Great story about the M60A3s at Dugway… Sure wished I could have been along with you guys for that spin around the block. Here at Work the WADOT brings one of their M60A3s down range occasionally for firing and training of the DOT newbies who use them for avalanche control... It always brings back great memories to hear them drive past heading down range. Sad that those DOT POUGs don't know half of what the tank can do. All they care about is planting a HEP round into a mountain side...  |
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Most of DWPG is contaminated with just about everything the Army has ever tested, except (maybe) radiation. Hope you don't end up with two-headed kids - -    Oh by the way 11D40/11E40 Deutchland 71-73, M-60A1 Dozer Tank 3d/33d Armor "Pickles" Wandering and Wondering |
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And the smell. Different from an M1, it smells like "tank".
DPG is spooky. Entire little towns that seem to have been picked up and moved away leaving nothing but the streets and sidewalks. My kids were all born so no worries. My unit just transitioned to Bradleys so I bought a civilian book about them and in the first pages they run through it's predecessors. One of them was an M114 with a 20mm cannon. Were you the poster that put a pic of one of those up? |
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Did you know Mike Dixon? He was in 1st or 3rd, I can't remember, at Khafje. Pennsylvania...I knew two guys. Herb Viola (basic) and Bob Balasz (2/185thAR) Interesting dudes. I often wonder how they're doing. |
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M1Lase_n_Blaze, Did you deploy to Iraq with 81st HBCT on their first "In the Box deployment" in 04???..
Yeppers, a M60A3 always, always sounds and smells like a real tank. |
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No. I was in 2/185th AR then. A bunch of us got put in the mix to deploy as fill-ins for the 1/185th, but after SRP a mission (Dugway) came down the pipe for 2/185th and our BC pulled us back. I know a few of the guys that went with 81st though. And I listen to LT Suits everynight on KFIam 640.LT Bryan Suits KFI I spent 2004-2006 doing this Full Battle Rattle (You gotta watch the trailer) After that mission, about a third of 1/221st Cav volunteered to deploy and augment another Guard unit in Iraq from 2006-2007. It was theater convoy escort, so they took our tanks and gave us armored cars. |
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The only picture I have of "Three Bongos" (Grafenwohr '72) but she was new, and never missed!!!
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I was in A Co, 2/32 AR from '85-'87, shortly after I arrived we transitioned to the M1. Small world, huh? I loved the 60A3, old dino that it was. At Ft. Knox we lived in them for weeks on end doing TR's for the Armor School. Purge-pump-and-ether starts on frozen mornings when it'd start on half the cylinders until it warmed up...getting a case of beer from another crew because we recovered their lost escape hatch...little joe...sleeping on the fender because it's gotta be softer than the hull (definately flatter)...ten-thousand nooks and crannies to stash pogiebait and magazines...pulling the pack...those d*mned final drive couplings...and kicking *ss at the NTC. Whenever I smell diesel exhaust on a cold day I'm transported right back into the driver's seat waiting to move out - breathing the exhaust of the tank in front. I've got some old pics scanned somewhere around here. |
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Family Day at Ft. Knox, sometime in '84-'85. Wonder if they still let dependents ride around on top of the turret?
 My gunner PFC Mooney and his wife on the turret of (looks like) C-67 (5/33 of the 194th AR Bde)  Lined up, ready to head home after a gunnery TR. Probably right outside Yano range, iirc. That's my tank with the "Tank of the Month" banner, yessireebob.  |
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M60A3 in need of some recovery at the North Training Area, south of the paved road somewhere. They tried to go around to the left, but slid sideways into the hole. Without their tow hooks already in place. Driver got to go diving with a hook, pins, and 3lb hammer - heh.
In the end, it took 2 M-88's to recover it. They were virtually lifting it out of the mudpit. What a mess.  I wasn't kneeling when I took this picture.  The crew had to buy beer for everybody in the platoon, as well as all the mechanics.  |
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