Once we landed a million troops and thousands of tanks on a hostile beachhead. 70 years later we fail at a small expedition.
Things will change. We have a Man in charge and he chose Men to man the departments. Remember who was in charge when those tanks and troops were sent to Europe. A fellow who always looked for ways to humiliate our country and troops.
There is a difference in shipping a tank from the States to Germany, where it is off loaded with a crane, and doing a combat landing on a foreign shore. For a combat landing you come a shore fully loaded and fighting. For a long distance shipment, you keep the fuel tanks nearly empty and disconnect the batteries. When we practiced rail heading our artillery pieces from Ft. Hood to Houston around 1979, one of the instructions was to have minimal diesel in the fuel tanks. Safety factor for shipping across the Atlantic.
Both times I shipped my POV to & from Germany, I was told to arrive at the port of embarkation with less than a quarter of a tank of gas. The gas cap was removed for shipment and what gas was in it was siphoned out. And the battery was disconnected. The arrival port put in a couple of gallons of gas, reconnected the batteries and drove the card to the pickup yard.
I’m a tad curious on how this became public?