M1 Abrams tanks of the 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division move to firing points before the start of live-fire training at 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany Feb. 12, 2018, where it is always guaranteed to get “six more weeks of winter.”
The Army has a two-part video series about the Sullivan Cup, “This ain’t your mama’s table VI qualification.”
Big Green takes the top 16 M1 tank crews and pits them against each other in a week-long competition at Fort Benning.
The production team from the Defense Media Activity goes down to Fort Stewart, Georgia, to see two 3rd Infantry Division tank crews, “Cannonarchy” and “Count Trackula”– both from Charlie Co. 1-64 Armor— compete for a chance to go to the Army’s premiere tank crew competition.
And it’s really well done and insightful. The term “degraded engagement” takes on new meaning.
Part I
Part II
I normally steer away from CNN. But I used to work for GenDyn, and here is an *interesting* piece about how the Army wants to not spend $2.8Billion (with a B) in upgrading 2,000 1980s vintage M1s that are in long term storage but Congress is making them. I agree that keeping Lima open is cheaper than rebuilding the plant but hey….The military says it can save $3b by not upgrading a fleet of tanks, but Congress won’t listen.
