[Carl Vehse]

Back even earlier when I was an AIT-trainee at Ft. Knox and driving an M-48 across a wide snow-covered gully, I told my tank instructor the ground ahead didn't seem too solid. He said to go ahead, upon which I drove on and sank the tank in oozing thick mud up to the top tread (sort of like the M-41 tank below). I was told the penalty for an instructor getting his tank stuck was a case of beer for each tank needed to help. It took two other tanks with tow cables to pull us out.

[nascarnation]

That’s some SERIOUS slop!

[archy]

I was told the penalty for an instructor getting his tank stuck was a case of beer for each tank needed to help. It took two other tanks with tow cables to pull us out.

I have seen two VTRs and four M60 tanks cabled together to pull one German Leo I out of the mud in turret defilade. And that was with the Leos tracks churning away.

Some of those panzerfahrers were good at that sort of thing.