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That's what scares me. The loss of knowledge between wars is a hemmorage FYI.
The USMC ran FT17s in tinsien China in 1927 and a Col Serenno Brett ran a mixed platoon of light and heavy tanks in Panama for the army during the same period....And the info was lost. We need to trap that info and nail it down.
When I was researching for TANK ACES, I quickly found out that everything we had to learn in Vietnam about jungle tanking was learnt in Bataan and Guadalcanal in 42....And in Panama in 1926.
The problem is institutional memory. The ONLY source available to modern soldiers is personal memoirs. "Tank Sergeant" has been carried in tankers' pockets in Mogadishu, etc.
There has GOT to be a better way
Time marches on. The only people still on active duty are generals and a handful of crusty CWO's and National Guard and Reserve guys who have been called up. 1972 was 31 years ago. Nam vets are as rare now as WW II vets were when I came in.
The Stryker Brigade Combat Team Tactical Studies Group (Chairborne) is evolving into a forum where guys who have been there and done that can tell the rest of us about it. These posts are being read in the Pentagon, at General Dynamics, and overseas, and some of our best posters on these Stryker threads are presently inside the belly of the beast.
I wish all you early baby boomers would teach a friend of yours how to use a computer and recruit him as a Freeper and get him on the SBCTTSG (ChBN)Ping List. Good war stories are a terrible thing to waste.
Check out The Gathering.