What better way to test new weapons?
"What better way to test new weapons?"
Point taken.
But all the intel we had going in said that the Koronet's weren't ANYWHERE in the reigon. Until then we were working under the assumption that the Iraqi's didn't have anything that could knock out an M-1.
The first we knew of them being in country was when a tank from 3/7 Cav. got nailed with one.