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To: _Jim
"What 'tank cannon'?"

You didn't see the tank that butch Reno ordered into the fray? They used the cannon tube to pump some sort of gas into the compound.

No legend.

53 posted on 04/16/2003 11:18:18 PM PDT by nightdriver
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To: nightdriver; Lurker
To be accurate, it wasn't a tank, it was a Combat Engineer Vehicle (CEV), built on an M60 tank chasis, which does have a very short 152mm cannon (which is used for blowing up obstacles, not taking out other tanks and such), but that wasn't what was used to pump the gas into the house at Mt. Carmel. The CEV crew used the vehicle's crane arm to punch the hole(s) in the wall, then an attached hose pumped the CS in.

Don't get me wrong. I don't defend the Waco apologists, just trying to make sure our side doesn't use the distortion tactics the others do.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

93 posted on 04/20/2003 10:52:50 AM PDT by wku man
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