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An old tanker told me his unit was issued Grease Guns during the first Gulf War. Don’t know if that was widespread or is he was just lucky.

True. I qualified with a Grease gun in 1994 with B Co, 1/635th AR, KSNG who had some of the last M60a3 TTS tanks in the Army. Fun gun to shoot. They worked better in the desert than the M231s the Cavalry unit had.

[archy]

True. I qualified with a Grease gun in 1994 with B Co, 1/635th AR, KSNG who had some of the last M60a3 TTS tanks in the Army. Fun gun to shoot. They worked better in the desert than the M231s the Cavalry unit had.

We still had 'em in '95 and '96 in the M88s and the AVLB scissors bridges, since the vehicles had the interior clamps to hold the guns in place to keep them from banging around inside. After the VTRs got upgraded to M88A1s, the clamps were cut out, and the M4s replaced them. Officially, anyway. We had a LOT of combat losses in the sandbox.