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Calling all AD Soldiers to talk with your seniors about starting a chapter of the Order of the Little Red Tank. In any regiment - doesn’t have to be 66th AR…

Any insight on the Vehicles that 19K’s Operate? Is it a Great MOS? I chose Fort Carson as my station of choice

I want to be a tanker but I also weld. Could this benefit me in the long run. From what others say I will just be working on the tanks, but i actually want to operate one

Signed up for 3 years to become an M1 crewman, but knowing recruiting I feel there’s things they either haven’t told me or doused in sugar. Anything I should know before my ship date?

I’ve heard a lot about how the motor pool sucks and whatnot but nothing about what it’s actually like or what happens there.

Also, how are crew positions determined?

Repainting an old CVC and wondering if I should try getting the old paint off (and if so how) or just paint over it

I'm looking into reclassing in the near future. I believe there's a milper right now that will actually allow people to reclass into 19k without being in their reenlistment window. As a kid I was obsessed with armored vehicles and always wanted to do a combat job but here I am.

I know that currently right now bradleys are mainly crewed by infantry, scouts, artillery observers and engineers. But I did see that in the future, they will make bradley crew a dedicated MOS. But I'm just wondering if anyone here has been both a crewmember on an Abrams and a bradley and can explain to me what the differences are when it comes to being a crewmember and what is more satisfying in your opinion. pros and cons on bradley vs abrams etc.... What's more fun when it comes to actually driving/crewing.

And if anyone is curious why I want to reclass into Armor world, will try to talk to me out of it, don't recommend it. Even if I cannot reclass into the Armor world on this contract or whatever, I will pursue it in the national guard when I'm done with my active duty contract. I've spoken to former tankers 19k/19a in person. They encouraged me and I have already made up my mind. Yes I already know it's going to be a lot of hours spent in the motorpool.

What do they call it when you clear(shoot) the enemy off an ally tank? De-chaffing or de-glaze maybe? I heard it in a tank documentary a while back. But it's been bugging me because I can't find it anywhere. Like the part in saving private ryan with the flak gun shooting them off the tank.

Just a dirty civilian here, I recently found out that tankers have different boots. I loved the look so much I bought a pair (and they are also super comfortable). This is not my first pair of nice military boots, and I know how to shine and take care of the ones I have, however I've never had rough-out leather boots, so that being said, how are tankers taught to take care of these?

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Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Hi, yall , Long time ago I had heard that M1A1/A2 have a potentiol be re-fitted with 140mm in the future ( if such gun will be created). And what about old M1/M1IP, their 105mm guns can be swithed to 120 mm ones if needed ?

Hey y’all again. Been told two different things and wanted to confirm what’s true. If I join as a 19K prior service Marine do I gotta go through all of OSUT or would I picked up at the AIT portion? Also been told I’d had to go through basic again just because 19K goes through OSUT.

Hey y’all. I’m in the process of switching to the army from the marines. My overall goal is to do the full 20 years. If I’m gonna be in the military for another 16 years I’d like to do something I’d enjoy and be proud of. 19K is a mos I’m the most interested in. If y’all can I like to get y’all opinions on it. What’s it like? Can I make a career out of it? Is it strict or laid back? How fast are promotions? What’s OSUT like? How often are you in the field? How often do you gotta be dismount infantry? Etc I already know to do the cool tank stuff I’m gonna be in the motor pool doing a lot of maintenance. Any info would be appreciated.

I hope my question isn’t too out of place, but I was wondering, as someone who would like to serve, would you recommend being a tanker?

I feel like I have more of an attraction towards aviation, but I developed an interest in tanks after remembering there’s this guy who in Los Angeles who’s a tanker and a film director/stunt man, which is actually what I’m going to school for.

His name is Leo Kei Angeleos, and he has a photo of himself in a tank wearing a tanker jacket and vest with his gear in it, and another one of him in uniform with his camera, and it just seemed very inspiring. Very similar to my story and ambitions as well.

On the other hand, I feel like I’ve always been more interested in aviation. I did a test to see what images piqued interest, and I always picked the photos that had Airborne, aviation, or something in the water. This was across all branches too, and they all had something to do with aircraft.

Hey all, non-tanker here and need some advice about tanker gear when working in winter environments. I'm working with a ukrainian medical brigade and they want to outfit drivers of their armored vehicles (M113 and BMPs) with fire-resistant Nomex suits. I found these so far: https://www.cgprotection.com/military/p_214.html

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My question is mainly how did you adapt the use of a fire-resistant suit to winter clothing. We are trying to figure out if the suit should be the most external piece of clothing and if that would prevent the user from wearing a thicker coat in sustained cold-weather conditions. Or if alternatively the suit is used as a layer and warmer gear is able to be worn on top of it.

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If anyone has any experience or can point me in a better direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi I'm a 91a, yalls mechanic but recently got moved out of a line team and away from the tanks and got moved to s&r. I was one of the 4 mechanics that q1 on a tank but my new 1sgt hates that I wear straps I find them safer to wear especially since I'm on the 88. How should I tell the new 1sgt to fuck off and to quit bitching about my boots. ( I'm not going back to laces)

Hello all,

I have been doing my homework on options for joining the army.

My recruiter suggested to seek out reddit for more info, so here I am. I am strongly inclined to get involved with the Armor career path and have gotten decent context from older posts here and the Army weekly questions thread.

I'd like to ask some questions here if anyone may help me out please?

For context, I am a 28M with a degree and around 5 years data/math type work experience.

-My most pressing question is, with my background, what in your opinions, might be the odds that the Army would not let do armor to begin with? I am afraid I'll apply post-ASVAB and get put right back behind a computer. (I know there is likely some risk regardless, but your thoughts?)

- I have seen that my main options would be to go for a 19k after BCT and just remain an NCO if I want to stay in or around tanks.

The OCS path here would be, BCT, apply packet for OCS, go to train "gunnery" with a tank crew but then only get maybe 2 years on an actual tank up to Maneuver Captains Career Course before being put back on staff work full time? Do I have this right or is the officer path different?

Either way if there is anyone currently doing the OCS Armor path or has come off it recently, I would love to connect and pick your brain in more depth please.

Thank you to all in advance for anything you may share!

My closest friends son joined the army, got his commission and commanded his first tank in combat. I’m making him a piece of wall art in commemoration, and I’m looking for those nuggets only another tanker could provide. Is there any special initiation, ritual or rite of passage that goes along with this achievement? Any special sayings? I know of the supposed “do a shot of bore swab water and bite the primer” thing from arty. I’m looking for something in the tanker community that analogs that. Any help on this would be really helpful. I was able to find out his tanks name, so I have a good start there. I was also able to get his unit crest and their official motto (which I won’t post here, for obvious reasons) and some less than official unit art. Thanks so much in advance!

For some reason I want to recall the Army had a 120mm smoke round years ago. I know we used to have a 105mm WP round. Any “old” tankers from way back? Lol.

I saw this post.

https://www.fanverse.org/threads/tanks-vs-infantry-the-reality.777047/

So I'm wondering since I used to play a lot of Starcraft, Rise of Nations, and Command and Conquer and this Tank Rush doctrine was really done so much in these and many more computer games. To the point you had to learn to master it to even hope of winning online multiplaye matches against other beginners before you could go into advanced stuff such as combined arms and formations.

In real warfare was the tank rush in the sense of computer games as described in the link ever used in history? How effective was it? Was it a horrible approach to using tanks as OP describes or could it be effective in the way gamers manage to use it with awesome results?

Yep, name checks out.

I do encourage all of the more seasoned members of the combat arm of decision to write about your experiences. It's not only cathartic, but we need to preserve the history of our science & craft so the younger generation doesn't repeat our mistakes. I have a monograph available which I wrote a few years ago. If you're a legit US Armor/Cav tanker, DM me. I'll share a copy after a few questions.

hi tankers, i got a question. especially if you've served on a leopard 2. how tall are the tallest tankers you know? i want to join the canadian armoured forces, but i want to know if i'd be able to fit inside of a leopard 2 first, considering i'm 6'4"/193cm. i've looked all over the internet to see if i can find anything about height restrictions for the leopard 2 but i can't find anything no matter where i look.