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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.

[Joe 6-pack]

They remained a basic issue item on the M88 tracked recovery vehicle into at least the mid-90s.

[njslim]

When took ROTC in early 1970’s the local National Guard unit
was an armored unit (M48 Patton)

They has Grease Guns as personal weapons in case had to
defend themselves

[DCBryan1]

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.

[GreyFriar]

When I was with 1st Bn, 32d Armor, 3d Armored Division 75-78, we had ‘grease guns’ as a crew served weapon on our tanks. Since we were only issued M1911s, the Grease Gun was used when we dismounted at night lager for outposts and perimeter guard. The 3-12 Cav’s M-60 tanks still had them in the mid-1980s. The main reason was that there was NO place to safely store a M-16 inside the M-60 series tank. I recall that our FO brought his M-16, even though told by the company commander not to. The tank ate it — that is, it got caught on the turret when it rotated and proceeded to bend it into a piece of junk.