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Subject: The End Of The American Tank Battalion
SYSOP    4/1/2014 5:38:00 AM
 
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keffler25       4/1/2014 2:59:11 PM
Dumb.
 
All those additional M1 tanks are there if there is a major war. With all the simulators it is easier and quicker to train more crews than it is to build more M1 tanks.
 
Tanks are kind of strange... I don't you can simulate throwing a track in a tactical movement or the reverse slope defense under bombardment  in a 'simulator.' You need the real thing.  
 
 
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keffler25       4/1/2014 3:00:06 PM
The word missing is 'think.'
 
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HR    Keffler   4/1/2014 4:42:56 PM
Ouch... I agree with you again.
 
I am hoping that the only thing they are practicing is how to use the tank's weapon system from the inside... sort of like an arcade game.
 
When it comes to heavy weapons they have a feel of their own that the operator needs to be familiar with including a sense of what the equipment can and cannot do in real life, with real creeks, real obstacles, real mud and the likes.
 
It is also obvious to me that the USA is not thinking of using armor in the near future. Tank battles I mean. They must think they will not need to fight anyone with a significant number of tanks.
 
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dogberry       4/1/2014 5:39:38 PM
Are the eight National Guard divisions to be restructured?   There are 27 brigade combat teams, 1 acr, and 8 combat aviation brigades, will the state resist cutting the Guard?
 
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WarNerd       4/2/2014 2:22:16 AM
Are the eight National Guard divisions to be restructured?   There are 27 brigade combat teams, 1 acr, and 8 combat aviation brigades, will the state resist cutting the Guard?
The state governors will fight it tooth and nail.
 
And, given the resent action in the Ukraine, both sides of the aisle in Congress is going to have seriously questions about this as well.
 
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ambush    Promotion opportunities   4/2/2014 7:59:16 AM
With only 3,808  tankers  you have to figure the Armor/Cav career field is going to be fairly tight promotion wise which is sure to hurt retention.  Figure roughly 1/4 are Plt Leaders another 1/4 platoon Sergeants minus the company commander etc tanks and it is going to suck even more.  Armor wil be one of those caeer fields  peopel will do one enlistment in then re-enlist for another career field with  better chances for advancement.
 
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joe6pack       4/2/2014 11:58:39 AM
Always preparing for the previous war..  one would think we would learn..
 
 And while simulator's are better than nothing.. nothing is better than actually doing.  The Pentagon needs to work out a budget where training dollars aren't nearly always at the front of the line for getting chopped...
 
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HeavyD       4/2/2014 4:33:14 PM
Dumb.
 
Tanks are kind of strange... I don't you can simulate throwing a track in a tactical movement or the reverse slope defense under bombardment  in a 'simulator.' You need the real thing.  
 


Is there a single person alive in the Active, Guard or Reserve component of the US military that has personally experienced the reverse slope defense under bombardment? 
 
 
 
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Orebamian    What Kind of War   4/2/2014 7:48:02 PM
What type of war is the new combined arms battalion designed to fight? 
 
No more large scale "tank vs. tank" battles? 
 
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keffler25       4/3/2014 12:13:02 AM
NTC. 
 





Is there a single person alive in the Active, Guard or Reserve component of the US military that has personally experienced the reverse slope defense under bombardment? 

 

 

 
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