Quote Originally Posted by Skull6 View Post
Zraver, those Infantry Soldiers would be over 20 feet behind my tank & we didn't have the engine in tactical idle. It would be warm, but wouldn't "fry" anyone. (Besides, have you ever suffered the winters at Hohenfels? "Danged cold!" is an understatement.) )
Bu the engine has to run some time, like I sad we started range fires. Cant say I've done Hohenfels, but I done NTC with a wind chill below zero.

glyn, Some of the men in my unit would do that, but I never had the "scones" to. I'd seen the impact crater left in concrete after an M-256 main gun tube had slipped its straps, while it was being pulled from the turret (breach still being supported by the front slope of the tank). Something falling almost 2 feet through reinforced concrete left me with a significant mental image of what could happen should I find myself accidentally being in the part the concrete played that day.
You only have to wear watermelon once (EL uncouple) to know that the Abrams wants to kill someone and prefers to kill its own crew becuase they are closest.

Strange--I just realized I was more afraid of a main gun tube falling on me than I was of the enemies' bullets finding their mark in me during combat. The way I see it, I had more control over keeping myself out of the bullet's way & keeping the enemy from returning my fire, than I ever will over gravity itself.
When I drove I always checked my cvc cord and verbally got the ok to exit the tank, I don't want to get cut in half.