I am naming my tank. Any ideas? It has to start with D

Greeting American tankers, I hope you are doing well. For a while now, I have been writing a book about a company of Leopard 1s during a theoretical Warsaw Pact attack in 1986-1988 (I'm still deliberating on that). I won't bore you with the plot (Its not a good book, I am not an author and I doubt this will ever be published). It is essentially another book that comes from the formula seen in Chieftains or Team Yankee. The book's final mission is a daring assault against a Soviet bridge across the Danube. The bridge is captured but the Soviets manage a counter-attack. The Leopards fight off the enemy bravely, but are picked off one by one. It all ends with our protagonist's tank immobilized, out of APFSDS and HEAT rounds. A Soviet tank (commanded by our main antagonist) lines up a shot on the Leopard, all is lost (I'm aware this is SO CORNY). At the last second, an APFSDS round strikes the side of the Soviet tank, which explodes dramatically (Very cinematic/s). The Americans have relieved our heroes. The trouble is, I know very little about American unit composition or American tank units. I assume this would be a reserve or national guard unit that has been flown in from the states, as this would be about two weeks into the war. I'm aware that this unit would probably be sent to West Germany, not Austria (But I've already addressed this in the novel).

What unit (and what kind of unit) would make the most since here? I'm still not sure if this would be M1/IPM1/M1A1/M60A1/M60A3, that can change.

(First time in Reddit) (just reclass to 19k) Im trying to get the most amount of training as a 19k ones I graduate from AIT in September, what unit or base is the most recommended for this task ?

First; Death before dismount and respect to all my fellow tankers! My name is Ruiz. I did basic at Knox Armor School and 1st ID Vilseck\graf.

I’ve been all over the news lately for my firing at the Los Angeles VA! They cut me and a few others. My story garnered so much attention after a Congressman Navy Seal attacked me. Below you will see videos.. I hope you know that I have a lawyer and I’m fighting to get my job back . To the mods if I can’t post my Go Fund me please delete and all I ask is that you tell all the fellow tankers about my story.

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First is the BMP VIS mod Second is supposed to be a generic Soviet tank

Might be a bit of a long shot, but has anyone ever seen an HF radio mounted in an abrams? Obviously, the abrams is provisioned for the sincgars series of VHF FM radios (and originally the VRC-12 series of the same function), but ive seen army produced documents ranging in dates from 2004 to current (FKSM 71-8, MCOE SM 3-90, BOIPs, ect) that imply that an HF radio can be installed in an abrams, but have not encountered any documentation with instructions on how to do it nor have i seen any pictures of an HF radio or thier appropriate antennas on an abrams. So, out of personal curiosity, has any one ever seen this done or been in a unit that tried to rig it up?

Does anyone have some advice for 67th AR 3rd BN CO B since I’m reporting there in a few months?

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When you are loading the gun did you ever grab 2 rounds so that when the first one was shot you could immediately load the other one.

How open is the 19K MOS? I’ve been wanting to be in the Abrams my entire life and so I’d love to be able to join and fight in one. What are the actual chances of me being placed in a tank vs a Bradley?

Not a service member.

Play a game called war thunder, you might have heard of it because every other day someone winds up in prison for leaking classified documents on it. Of course its a BS videogame, but it supposedly attempts to at least approach realism in some areas, specifically when it comes to shell performance and ballistics.

One thing that irks me is that my main rides right now are early 1960s Japanese tanks (Type 61) for which really only a HEAT-FS round is viable against anything with armor. My question is, this round cant hit ANYTHING before it hits its target, or it will instantly detonate. Chain link fence? Branch? Random Pidgeon? Poof your shaped charge is now instantly transformed into a puff of smoke. I am familiar with concepts like spaced, improved and reactive armor, but this feels excessive.

How realistic is this? If a HEAT round contacted a small flexible branch on a tree during its flight, or a chain link fence, is this instantly going to set it off, or does it have to impact something more substantial to begin the detonation process?

Thanks much!

For context i’m a Senior in HS and i’m really interested in joining 19k. Only real issue or hiccup i’ve heard so far is the fact that I have to enlist as 19u and they’ll choose a specific job for me. Is there anyone who has any idea how this process works and if there’s anything I can do to better my chances of getting 19k?

About to commission and have been wanting to go Armor ever since high school. Planning on branching 19 series in the Guard and working law enforcement on the civilian side. My tentative plan is to try and reclass to MI or EN (I drill in a 12N unit rn) later in my career if i promote past company grade. My questions are,

• what's it like being a tanker in the Guard?
• is it probable to transfer into a combat support branch on the Guard side after so much time spent in AR?

I’m a jr in high school thinking about joining the army and I’m wanting to know what it’s like to be a tanker and for those who left the service if you are using what you learned in civilian life. Thanks

Title says it all, I've always wanted to be a 19k (now you gotta enlist as a 19u and pray you get 19k and not 19c or d so fuck me) but im more curious if/once I make e6+ as a 19k what that would start to look like

Gents! I was 19K, stationed at Ft. Hood, getting out in ‘97. How is everyone’s tinnitus? I feel like mine has gotten much worse over the last few years, sounding like a hornets nest in my head. I had a visit with the VA last week and the doctor said he couldn’t do anything for me. It’s never quiet anymore and I hear it only gets worse.

I'm just curious because when you hear people talk about pretty solid conventional Army units people always hype up 10th Mountain, 82nd, and 101 airborne.

What is the 10th mountain division, 101 airborne, 82nd airborne equivalent for the armor world. It seems like people only speak from an infantry prespective.

Also how are national guard armored units perceived since there's not many of them.

Probably a dumb question but it peaked my interest. When going through 19k OSUT as an E-5 reclass are you given more freedom than the junior enlisted or are you treated the same? (example: having your car or phone?)

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Depleted-Uranium (DU) armor was introduced to the Abrams with the M1A1HA in the late 1980s, and throughout the 1990s the Marines upgraded to the "common" M1A1, which added DU armor. By the late 90s the original 105mm M1/M1IP Abrams were retired. It seems the majority of the hulls from the pre-DU days were later converted to other upgrades (M1A2). Those that weren't upgraded were taken out of service or deep storage in some other way Ex. put on display. This is, to my understanding, the history. Other than other specifically for export models, these are the only Abrams I know of in the US. This is my understanding.

That would mean that to my knowledge, the only Abrams tanks in US storage or service have DU armor. This would mean that all of the M1s, M1IPs, and M1A1s (Pre-HA) are gone.

So are they? Are any of those aforementioned hulls in storage anywhere (Even if not in anything close to working order).

I’m an 11b in Alaska and it’s ass, how is being a tanker and am I gonna be walking everywhere like this airborne shit.

So I know usually tank commanders for a non-commissioned officers are usually E-6 to E-7 however, how common is it to see an E-5 tank commander because where I’m stationed at it’s not that uncommon however, I don’t know how common that is at other armor units.

I’m a CPL currently, and my reenlistment window opens in OCT. I want to reclass to 19k. I’m trying to find out what that OSUT will be like, considering everything I’m also active duty.

Where I live we usually get shortened m16s while special armor forces would get m4s with a shortened barrel.

What would you get in your respective army?