[Timber Rattler]

Great! Now get everything else out of the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Korea and bring 'em home to the Mexican border!

[Gaffer]

I remember the M-1s in K-town across the river where I was stationed. I remember the 73 Israeli war. We tried to ship a bunch of them on freighters out to Israel from Bremerhaven...the effing NAZI germans wouldn’t allow them to leave.

[sickoflibs]

Does this mean that WWII is finally over?
Did we ever find Hitler?

[Gaffer]

70 tons....with rubber road treads for the autobahn....I remember driving alongside them.

[DemforBush]

The closing of an era.

Thank you to all who kept a watchful eye on the Fulda Gap during those years, and kept western Europe free.

[Sir Napsalot]

So it only takes a ‘sequestration’ cut.

Congress should have let sequestration happen a long time ago.

/sarc mode = off

[Born to Conserve]

I love tanks, but I think their day has passed. The only thing they’re good for now is running over unarmed civilians, and we don’t do that. Tanks will continue to be used by many regimes who do like running down civilians.

A $10,000 drone can take out a $10,000,000 tank.

Expect the same thing with piloted attack aircraft. Eventually all devices will be remote or robotic.

The real pisser is that the colonization of space will be done by remote/robotic control! How’s that for crazy?

[ansel12]

You think we need to remove our fighting capabilities and store them all in Texas and Arizona and New Mexico?

[count-your-change]

The guy on the right is having a hard time lifting that tank with a rope but the guys underneath are doing a great job of helping.

[Snickering Hound]

Whole lot of years since tanks went nose to nose in Berlin...

[SLB]

FYI

[elpadre]

Prior to the end of WWII, Europe, all or part of, was continually in a state of war. Our troops stationed there for 69 years gave Europe the only peace it has ever known.
IMHO the true “peace makers” of this world are not politicians or clergy or the UN - it is the United States Armed Forces. Praise God for all of them!!!

[LachlanMinnesota]

The US Army has now removed its last remaining tanks from German Soil by removing the last 22 tanks to South Carolina. And so it gradually goes...by wilting, desiccating, and erosion. The world is changing in ways difficult to notice, but no less significant for its invisibility.

The void which is formed is pregnant with calamity, and devoid of plans for the future.

I object.

[Sarajevo]

I Trp, 3/2 ACR, '80-81 & 84-87
A Co. 1/10 SFG(A) '89-92 & '93-97.

The majority of my Army career was spent in Germany.

[HenpeckedCon]

Wow, I shoveled a $hitload of concrete in Graf to build the new M-1 tank range in 1984 in the long gone 78th Engineer Battalion (Combat). Germany was nice, Grafenwoehr not so much.