Opinion on the M551 ?
I've crewed on 'em, went through the Table 8 gunnery course twice on one [that 152 is both loud and flashy and overloaded for the vehicle, the '60A3 was a better use of the Shillelaigh] and was on the Seventh Army Parachute Delivery Test Program for the M551, which is howcum I went through the West German jump School at Altenstadt and learned how to throw myself as far away from a C119 *Dollar Nineteen* Flying Boxcar as I could. Not really a tank, could have been a tank destroyer. The Army called it an *Armored Reconnaisance Vehicle* which it might have been but you could hear one from three miles off. Only carried around 20 rounds main gun ammo though.