Is O'Penis teying to create tensions on his way out the door? Is this just normal troop movements?
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US Deploying Tanks To Germany
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This is normal, with a dash of politics. Putin's been trying to test how much, if anything, NATO means to the US, and whether or not he can grab some more buffer zones. This has made a lot of smaller NATO countries very nervous. This is pretty much the bog standard way to say "yes, we're serious about this."
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I've heard that there's no money to actually train with the tanks once they are unloaded in Germany, so it will be up to the new President to blow the budget on training funds or cut some popular free lunch program to pay for training.
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It's 1979 all over again. Did he leave any burning helicopters on the South Lawn?Windy Wilson wrote:I've heard that there's no money to actually train with the tanks once they are unloaded in Germany, so it will be up to the new President to blow the budget on training funds or cut some popular free lunch program to pay for training.
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Strange. Did we not leave a lot of equipment in storage over there? Why waste the money?
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I think a lot of it was deployed to the sandbox over the years or brought back over here during the "end of history". Cause, you know, the Russians were never imperialistic or expansionist before the Soviet era.Rod wrote:Strange. Did we not leave a lot of equipment in storage over there? Why waste the money?
IIRC a bunch, if not most of the M-60's in Germany were "sold" to the Egyptians as payback for their support during DESERT SHIELD/STORM
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We still use M60s???
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The Marines were still using them in DESERT SHIELD. I'm not sure if all the Army units had transitioned by then (although I believe the units deployed to Saudi were all M1 at that time). The ones I'm talking about might have been from units that had recently transitioned.skb12172 wrote:We still use M60s???
Remember the Abrams was relatively new then. Just few years earlier (1986) I don't think any had been deployed to Korea yet, they were due in the next year or so IIRC. Same with Blackhawks and Apaches and Bradleys. We still had Hueys and Cobras and M113's. All the new toys were headed to Europe first.
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I see. I thought the Abrams was first deployed in 1980.
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There's a difference between "first deployed" (yay! a field unit haz one!), Initial Operational Capability (IOC)) (yay!, at least one combat coded unit is fully equipped with the new toy!) and fully fielded (yay! everyone haz been issued all of their allotment!)skb12172 wrote:I see. I thought the Abrams was first deployed in 1980.
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