Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
Here's some more for you.

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Since what you see here represented about the entire armored defense of West Berlin, we referred to them as "Speed bumps for the Russians". wink



One thing I never realized is that tanks can skid on icy pavement just like cars. I remember being stopped at the bottom of a slight hill and having an M60 sliding sideways at our vehicle, that was entertaining.... shocked



During a block leave period for Christmas I didn't take leave. We were on a half day schedule, and my task for the week as a young Sergeant, was to try and tow a M1 into one of our bays for repairs. Took me all week because of the ice. Our motorpool was solid ice and it took very careful planning of the route, lots of reverse and a metric crap ton of cuss words to finally work it into the bay. Any time that M! would catch the slightest slope while towing it, it would slide. Quite the rodeo. Of course, half of each day was spent getting the M88 with its air cooled twin turbo charged 1790ci V12 diesel warmed up enough to move the damn thing.