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TEB

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6. It was all in good fun

Reply to Aristus (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 12, 2017, 11:18 AM

Nov 2017

Is it leapoards the west Germans had. I remember in over watch on reforger this tank on black ice barrel tore into a house. Don’t know I heard black ice I saw it after the fact thru binoculars. You could see their toilet as clear as day where the wall was missing.

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Veterans Day get together as a 11B I wasnt smart enough to be a 11C or a 11H [View all] TEB Nov 2017 OP

Happy belated Veteran's day. The Polack MSgt Nov 2017 #1

You as well happy Veterans Day TEB Nov 2017 #2

LOL DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #9

We 19Kilos get a lot of razzing for being 'dumb-ass tankers'. Aristus Nov 2017 #3

Yes I know TEB Nov 2017 #4

When we would tell people we were trained to use a highly sophisticated targeting computer, Aristus Nov 2017 #5

It was all in good fun TEB Nov 2017 #6

Yeah. Strangely, I never saw any Leopards while I was over there. Aristus Nov 2017 #7

We were freezing our asses TEB Nov 2017 #8

That why my tanker buddy DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #10

Yeah, we used that term, too. Aristus Nov 2017 #11

He's was a 19K too DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #15

Oh yeah. We called it 'punching the gun tube'. Aristus Nov 2017 #17

Thanks. DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #21

Actually, there was a very important safety imperative for keeping the gun clean. Aristus Nov 2017 #22

Hey bro TEB Nov 2017 #13

That's funny DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #14

Gotta find humor TEB Nov 2017 #16

Very cool hanging with them DashOneBravo Nov 2017 #12

Did you people enlist for these? Cold War Spook Nov 2017 #18

Yes I took asvab TEB Nov 2017 #19

Read your profile if you want Ill keep you in prayers friend TEB Nov 2017 #20