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Looks like Anniston Army Depot. No trees like that around Fort Hood. I really miss those gals. :(

Yes. A friend of mine was a tank crew evaluator for that AT and got injured in that incident. 49th AD turned in their slick 60s and got A3s in 1988.

Yep. It's behind the building there.

That...would require me actually being able to locate it in my house. LOL Actually, now that I think about it I think it was actually an ad I clipped from a construction equipment magazine my dad used to get for his business back in the 80s and 90s.

Somewhere in a box in my house is a SECO flyer from around 1986 with a bunch of M5A1s for sale. IIRC they were sourced from a South American country.

Nice. LOL It's an M5A1, BTW.

M3A3s, M5s and M5A1s did. M3s and M3A1s used radials.

True. LOL Unless we were actually doing gunnery, I always kept the cap installed to keep dust out of the tube. Nothing worse than swabbing a bore when you didn't even get to have fun shooting the thing. :\

If their tanks are anything like ours, they likely installed a rubber cap that goes over the end of the gun tube.

I've got photos from that drill, though most of them are of the tanks on and around the turn-in pads by MATES. I remember being told to do TCGST on the slick, but because I only knew the A3 from Fort Knox I was mostly clueless about most of the tasks on the list.

Same here, from 86-93. Started off in Charlie Troop, but while I was at Fort Knox for OSUT, they reorganized and when I got back everybody was in Alpha troop. Captain Nickel(s?) was my first Troop commander and 1SG Ricks was the top kick. Only drilled twice on the slicks before we went to...

What outfit, @Barrman?

AVDS 1790. Any M60-series tanks in Korea were US vehicles. South Korea operated M48s until converting to the K1-series MBT.

You might try calling these folks. http://www.texasarmoring.com/ If nothing else maybe they can hook you up with their supplier (assuming they don't make it themselves).

M41 Walker Bulldog. Postwar light tank.