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Showing posts with label Tank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tank. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

"Never Eat With Dirty Hands" Advice I Didn't Follow

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  In the 10th grade at Stoneham High School near Boston our biology teacher, Sonia Jones, told us "Never eat with dirty hands!" Sh...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Two Weeks of Fog Watch: There's No Boredom Like Army Boredom

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In the spring of 1977, my tank unit, 1st Battalion, 70th Armor, went to Grafenwohr, West Germany, for annual gunnery training.   Tens of tho...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Watching Ukraine Tank Battles in Panama: Maybe the Panama Canal will be the Next Battlefield

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  My AirBnB host in Panama watches a lot of tank battles from the War in Ukraine. We may go live near the Panama Canal soon if Trump carries...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

PanzerMuseum East Gift Shop

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The Gift Shop at Panzermuseum East, Slagelse, Denmark, is crowded with uniforms, gas masks, models, spent brass, radio equipment, flags and ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Tank Museum Designed as a Warning: Panzer Museum East, Denmark

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Most military museums, particularly tank museums, display the best and most lethal weapons of their country. Part of the intent of these mus...
Monday, February 28, 2022

War and Wooden Shoes

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Sabot is one of the names for the wooden shoe that in the Lexicon of War. One of the reports I heard about the Invasion of Ukraine talked ab...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Fighting Frigates and Main Battle Tanks Have Some Things in Common

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B-13, "Bad Bitch" my tank, 1975-78 The Movie Poster Royal Navy frigates in the early 1,800s and modern main battle t...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Three Tankmen, Три Танкистa--A Soviet Song About a Tank Crew

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There are not a lot of songs about tank crews.  The 75th Anniversary of VE Day is very soon. Here is a song about those of us who are Tan...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Corona Movie Five: Kelly's Heroes

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Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" My youngest son and I have been watching movies every other day the past week and a half. Th...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Dixie Pig, Motorcycle Racing and Missing my Tank

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I am watching the second season of "The West Wing." A suspect in a plot to kill the President in this late 1990s drama was arr...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Best Day in the Army and The Best Job I Ever Had

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Two weeks ago I started writing about the best day of my life as a soldier out of the 6,575 days (18 years) I served in uniform. That d...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Visiting the Base Where I was a Tank Commander from 1976-79 in Wiesbaden, Germany

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When I visited Wiesbaden Air Base this summer, the tank in the photo above was the only tank on the base.  When I arriv...
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