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September 1st, 2011, 09:29 PM
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#1 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cleman Barracks, Dept. of The Columbia.
Posts: 616
| USMC Tankers
Just curious, how many of you here are 1811s or 1812s????...
Gunner, SABOT, Tank!!!  
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September 2nd, 2011, 11:34 AM
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#2 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Arnauldville, Louisiana
Posts: 255
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As a Army Tanker, the M60A3 remains a winner to me. It did it's job during a difficult Cold War period.
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September 18th, 2011, 03:21 AM
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#3 | | Grunt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Auburn, WA
Posts: 80
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Yepper, 1812 here. Although I was a “19-day wonder” as I was a Corporal when I went to Fort Knox for school. I was originally 3531/Motor-T but made the switch. Since the cutting score for Sgt was closed out for what seemed like forever for Motor-T, as soon as the ink dried in my SRB & I was officially a Tanker I was promoted….”On the WAAAAAAY!!!”
M1A1…Nothing like Table 8, right? “Gunner, Coax, Troops!”
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September 25th, 2011, 08:57 PM
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#4 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: People's Republic of Kalifornia
Posts: 1,510
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Nice pics, IC2(SS)19Z5OC5.....what's the story?
I'm an old grunt, (0311 / 0331) but got to play with some tankers at 29 Palms a few times in 1986...... 
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September 26th, 2011, 06:47 AM
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#5 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cleman Barracks, Dept. of The Columbia.
Posts: 616
|  The Story About C-24
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Originally Posted by kevin  Nice pics, IC2(SS)19Z5OC5.....what's the story?
I'm an old grunt, (0311 / 0331) but got to play with some tankers at 29 Palms a few times in 1986...... | Here is the story/reply I posted back on 09-08-2011 to a similar question over on the thread I started on the Army page titled:
"Are You a 19Series???”
“I took this picture back in October of 2006, where I work. It is my old tank, C-24. At the time it was the Avalanche gunnery training vehicle for the WA-State DOT. Those POGUE D.O.T. pukes think they are so cool, they don’t know S$%t about real tank gunnery, but then again who needs to know, when all they do is lob HEP-T rounds at a mountain side.
And that's a great picture of those M60A1R/P tanks also 
We have a USMCR Tank Company on post and they are a squared away outfit. I recruited one of their 1812 Master Gunners into our work force. They are one of our best "customers"..
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October 2nd, 2011, 10:32 PM
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#6 | | Grunt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Auburn, WA
Posts: 80
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We have a USMCR Tank Company on post and they are a squared away outfit.
| Are you talking about 4th Tank Battalion - Bravo Company, in Yakima, WA? If so, small world. That was my old unit when I was doing the reserve thing. Do you know the story about the “53 Days” on their unit’s logo design? Kind of a neat story if you haven’t heard it before.
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October 3rd, 2011, 12:04 PM
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#7 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cleman Barracks, Dept. of The Columbia.
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Originally Posted by Dare2Think Do you know the story about the “53 Days” on their unit’s logo design? Kind of a neat story if you haven’t heard it before. | Yes I think so, but why not share it with others here, so we ALL know the true story....
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October 15th, 2011, 05:12 AM
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#8 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Bowling Green, Ky
Posts: 38
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2146 here not a offical 1812 but hell might as well been 
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October 16th, 2011, 02:10 AM
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#9 | | Grunt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Auburn, WA
Posts: 80
| The Story about 53/32 days
The motto of "53 days” refers to when the Korean War broke out and Marines of 4th Tank Battalion had only 53 days until they participated in their first combat. What isn’t widely known is that many of the Marine reserve units (Post WWII) had many members who hadn’t actually been to boot camp yet. In the years following WWII and the scaling down of the Military, many of the newer reservists had to wait for a slot to open up so they could go to boot camp. While waiting they could still pull their one weekend a month duty and learn their trade “On The Job Training” style. When North Korea invaded South Korea, many of these non-combat ready Marines learned how to shoot their rifles while targeting trash thrown off the back of their transport ships steaming for Korea. Many of these guys did not survive.
In a somewhat related story in the summer of 1950 my father was just junior in high school. In the small town of Cherryvale, Kansas football is king. In this area if the coach had a losing season his house might be burnt to the ground. In short they took their football serious. With that in mind my dad’s football coach had gathered all the older football players together and offered this idea. The Marine Corps was allowing high school kids to join the reserves, go to boot camp over the summer, and then return to school that following September. This sounded good to my dad. He’d be in super physical shape for football, have some money in his pocket, and have an adventure too…no one thought there was a War about to break out. That Fall of 1950 the US entered combat and my dad was allowed to finish his senior year in half the time, then he was off to Korea. He was just 17, and had joined the Marines to get in shape for football.
Fast forward to 1990 and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This time members of 4th Tank Battalion had only 32 days of training on the (New at the time) M1A1 Main Battle tank at Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. Fighting in both M60 & M1A1’s 4th Tanks had some of the highest tank kills of this short war. They were on the tip of the spear for the Marine Corps Armored advance. One note worth adding since it is not well known was that this unit was expected to take heavy losses. So much so they didn’t have room enough on the already scheduled return flights for all of the units “living” bodies…isn’t that a bummer? The only damage I remember hearing about was to have occurred during the mine field breach, when the plow had pushed an active mine up, but then it slid back down into the path in which one M1A1 hit it, destroying part of its track. No one was seriously hurt. When I was with this unit back in 1999 I met some of the original Desert Storm Marines that had tank kills. Whether it is 53 days or 32, history has a way of repeating itself. Crazy huh? Get Some! On the WAAAY!
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January 16th, 2012, 06:07 PM
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#10 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 114
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Originally Posted by kevin Nice pics, IC2(SS)19Z5OC5.....what's the story?
I'm an old grunt, (0311 / 0331) but got to play with some tankers at 29 Palms a few times in 1986...... | Good ole 29 Stumps, been there twice (86 & 87) for the CAX. Pretty cool seeing a tank round go down range at night.
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January 17th, 2012, 06:13 PM
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#11 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: People's Republic of Kalifornia
Posts: 1,510
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Originally Posted by xm-25 Good ole 29 Stumps, been there twice (86 & 87) for the CAX. Pretty cool seeing a tank round go down range at night. | I was there in 86 and again in 88.....with Kilo 3/7.
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May 9th, 2012, 06:27 AM
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#12 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Georgia
Posts: 84
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I spent my whole time in the Fleet in 2nd Tanks, I can still remember the smell of tank exhaust fumes... but I wasn't an 1811/12
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