Man, I know it's a small group, but we need some more tankers in these forums. ABV guys count too, Gunny.

Gee, I was 4th Tanks after AD but my resume got me a "see you" when I checked into the unit. It looked like fun but they wouldn't let me drive one, let alone shoot at anything.

bummer

hey king, question from an ol winger, what does the temps get to in those beast? i know they have a heater, but i suspect an air conditioner probly aint happenin. whats the temps over there as well? and you thought nobody would visit ya!

Well, in the cold, the interior is usually around the outside temps. There's a personnel heater that never seems to work. The heat is a killer. Always seems to be 15+ degrees higher than outside. Every so often, you can run the NBC system which allows you to run a hose of cool air into your CVCs. It is great! What I hate isn't the interior temps in the heat, it's burning myself on the hot metal. Stuff like the loader's stainless M240 guide gets way too hot in the sun. Ouch-o-rama.

Thanks for visiting us out here in the hinterlands, sandidge!

sounds like 345 air conditioning then....3 hatche @ 45 mph! as fer visitin, i ALWAYS got time to stop n talk to a jarhead! MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you tread heads!

15 degrees hotter is a conservative estimate.

I will alert the hubby to come on and converse with all you Tread Heads. He is TankComm92.

If they'd let some of old pharts drive around and shoot at stuff the site would be a whole lot more popular.

Hello Tankers
I was a Tanker From 1985 to 1996. Hell I think it is the blood. Active Duty and Reserve. I served on M60A1Rise Passive , M60A3, M1A1.
The Tanks were cold in the winter, hot in the summer and wet when ever it rained inside and out. That POS personnel heater NEVER WORKED!
Being cold and wet was the worst. Those old boots on that cold metal, my feet never felt good.

So true. When we opened our tanks the other day, there was snow on top, with ice and water in the turret. Fun times.

I remember sleeping on the Tanks ,my spot was the right front fender, that pipe for a pillow
and I was in N.C. and sometimes it would start to rain well before it was time to get up. That sleeping bag only kept rain away for so long.
Those were bad mornings ,Cold ,Wet, Dirty.
I would do it all over again.

Just for schits and giggles, lets see if we can get a head count on our worlds finest Marine Corps Tankers, past and present. I agree with a lot of these past posts that we have not been chattin' it up much and this is a good reason our past posts have been deleted. Granted I am new to these forums, but I am a hard charging former Marine Corps Tanker and I am like a bulldog when I get an idea stuck in my head.

I look forward to seeing everyones posts. This is a special time of the year to recognize our 233rd Marine Corps Birthday and I live in the Seattle area and I haven't decided what to do yet other than hoist up a drink and sing the Marine Corps Hymn outside my apartment window on November 10th, 2008. May sound crazy, but I wouldn't be where I am at if I were just a slacker civilian. Oh, wait, I am a F'n civiy. Oh well, who cares. Once a Marine, Always a Marine. Ooh Rah.

1967 = 5th Tanks, Camp Pendleton, M-48A3, 90 mm gun tank. We had snow in Dec of 1967!!!

1968 = 3rd Tanks, Vietna, M-67A2 Flame-thrower tank. It was hotter than all get out most of the time and then colder than you can belive during the monsoons.

1969 - 5th Tanks, CamPen, M-67A2 (again) and then out in June.

Well, here is a tracker? Does that count as armor?

Jagges, I suppose that counts Just given you crap. I suppose my post doesn't really include all Armor Units, which is a gross oversight on my part.

All Marine Armor personnel should post, that's who this forum is designed for.

Hey, John, you were AD during the time my 1Sgt was in Vietnam, or at least pretty close to it. I was actually trying to find him. Someone said he is still in NC and he retired as a SgtMaj. His name was C. Isherwood if you wanted to know.

Isherwood sounds familiar but we do not have his name on the USMC Vietnam Tankers Association roster.

I may Google him to see if I can get him to become a member of our brotherhood. I just got a retired 1st Sgt named George Palmer. He had been an armorer with 3rd Tanks back in 67.

Ok, the White Pages prpvided me with two Isherwoods in NC:

Chris Isherwood in Nags Head, NC

Charles B Isherwod in Hubert, NC

Before I go and make a fool of myself, can you give me some intel on what the "C" stands for?

You actually found him, too cool. Charles B. Isherwood. The last note I had on him was he was still living in NC. So it appears you may have located him. I'm not to sure how he will feel about the whole internet thing, but coming from another Marine from the same era, he may be a little more receptive.

Feel free to mention my name in any correspondence you have with him. Cpl. John Hammond, Charlie Company 2nd Tank Battalion from 1985 to 1989. I tried contacting him once, but with no luck. So good luck to you.

Dah-yam!!!

I called the number that White Pages gave me for Charles B Isherwood and a soft female voice answered. I introduced myself and asked for retired Marine 1st Sgt Isherwood.

Her reply was that I must have the wrong person bacause she got the phone number this past July so it may have been his number before that.