The 2/70th Armor, the outfit mentioned in the article as now being part of the First Armored, was then one of the tank support battalions for the 24th Infantry, stationed in Bavaria in the mid-1960s on. The 2/70th, which had the M60 then [with three M60A1s at HHC] while the tank division battalions had the M60A1, was at Sheridan Kaserne in Augsberg, one of my daily stops as a classified documents courier *delivering the mail* to S2 offices around Augsberg/Munich/Bad Tolz/Pullach.
I pulled a couple of border tours with 2/70's scouts, mortar and ground surveillance sections as their German-speaking liason to the West German Bundesgrenzschutz at Rotz and Weiden, generally a better crew to work with than the 14th Armored Cav's scouts. At the time, the unofficial Overseas Weekly newspaper rated U.S. units in Germany, and the 14th was considered the worst possible unit to be in.
In 1966, the 2/70 went to Graf for the Table 8 gunnery exercises, and took the top dog position as high tank battalion in USAREUR. There was weeping anfd gnashing of teeth among the armiored divisions' battalions after that, and many weekend and after duty hours gunnery classes for the tank division treadheads after that little episode.
Those guys in 70th Armored were good, real good, and they knew it. Looks like they still are, too, and finally found themselves honest work in an armored division.
