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Tankers bridge troubled waters
Marine Corps News ^
| Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva
Posted on 03/16/2006 3:30:52 PM PST by SandRat
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03/16/2006 3:30:53 PM PST
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SandRat
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Marine M-60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge
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03/16/2006 3:31:18 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
They really are old, because the bridge layers were built from reconditioned, decomissioned, Vietnam Era M-60 tanks.
So9
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posted on
03/16/2006 3:40:34 PM PST
by
Servant of the 9
(" I am just going outside, and may be some time.")
To: SandRat
I don't see what the problem was with the age of the vehicle. The M-60 was a great tank in it's day and is still in the inventory of the Army I believe. Parts are still made, engine is diesel, tracks and other parts are probably readily available. These guys just didn't have faith in their equipment simply because it was made a long time ago(to them):).
I remember when the M-60 was new, I took delivery of a Company of them in the summer of 1961( I was the turret mechanic, before I went to OCS, and was responsible for checking out the turrets and fire control on all of the tanks) and they were far superior to the M-48A1s they replaced!
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03/16/2006 3:45:46 PM PST
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calex59
(seeing the light shouldn't make you go blind and, BTW, Stå sammen med danskerne !)
To: SandRat
My father was Combat Engineer and the AVLB's were part of his TOE. We used them every year at the unit picnic as a gateway and they laid one one year for us kids to fish and swim. They used them all the time at Graf in Germany and here at Fort Hood... Why were they worried?
It's old but it works.....
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posted on
03/16/2006 3:57:22 PM PST
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Leofl
(I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
To: SandRat
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03/16/2006 4:06:40 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing...thank you Sarge.)
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posted on
03/17/2006 3:05:16 AM PST
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E.G.C.
To: SandRat
Combat Enginer AVLB bump.
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03/17/2006 3:08:02 AM PST
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roaddog727
(P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
To: Leofl
This is old too, about 100 years old but it works just fine.
Browning .50 caliber machine gun (tripod mounted)
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03/17/2006 3:17:11 AM PST
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Beckwith
(The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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03/17/2006 3:36:59 AM PST
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FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: FreedomPoster
Free Republic Treadhead Ping
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03/17/2006 4:07:44 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: calex59
I remember when M60A3's with thermal sights were Buck Rogers War Machines.
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03/17/2006 4:09:52 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
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03/17/2006 4:21:06 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: SandRat
bttt
Bridge anyone?
Cheers - Dinah
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03/17/2006 4:26:20 AM PST
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Dinah Lord
(fighting the Islamic jihad one keystroke and one prayer at a time...)
To: SandRat
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03/17/2006 4:26:34 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
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03/17/2006 4:27:14 AM PST
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sauropod
("War is the Devil's way of teaching Americans geography" - Ambrose Bierce)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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03/17/2006 4:28:29 AM PST
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sauropod
("War is the Devil's way of teaching Americans geography" - Ambrose Bierce)
To: StarCMC
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
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03/17/2006 4:29:05 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: sauropod; snippy_about_it
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03/17/2006 4:30:09 AM PST
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Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I used the list on Darksheare's page; are your lists synchronized?
Will go to your page in the future for the nice graphics.
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03/17/2006 4:51:17 AM PST
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FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Kippes drives his M-60A1 Armored Vehicle over the bridge he launched near Gharmah, Iraq, recently. Marines from Company D, 2nd Tank Battalion serving with Regimental Combat Team 5 in Fallujah, laid the bridge to help infantrymen with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment after a bridge was deemed unsafe.