Tankguy

I am currently serving in the U.S. Army and have been for some time now. I am on the glide slope for retirement in the not too distant future.

I am an Armor guy, thus the nickname. I am interested in all things tankalogical, good Texas BBQ and Fender Strats. I look forward to getting to know people on the board and exchanging ideas and opinions.

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Tanks, Fender Strats and Texas BBQ!

glyn

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Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

JA Boomer

Welcome Tankguy!!!

Great to have another tanker around here, I look forward to picking your brain, have fun on WAB!

dave lukins

Tankguy, welcome to the WAB. I myself was a Tankie for a few years so you are in good company

Tankguy

Cheers all. Tankies and Tankers alike. Glyn, I can relate to some of the joys of the South Coast of Britain in the winter. I lost an 18 foot trampoline my last winter in sunny Dorset. That was a riot. I was getting ready for work, and my oldest was getting ready for school. She noticed the trampoline in a horizontal position in the back garden. Next thing you know, my neighbour and I were in the back garden in trainers and PJs wrestling the beast into submission. It was fruitless. Wind 1 people nil.

Shamus

Welcome to the WAB Tankguy .

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but
it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Debbie

Welcome

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But when the night is falling and you cannot find the light, if you feel your dream is dying - hold tight, you've got the music in you..... New Radicals

Bluesman

Welcome, friend.

My son just finished 19D training at Knox, and he's cooling his heels in Vilseck, waiting to catch up to his regiment in Baghdad.

All that Air Force in his family, and he goes and joins the ARMY?!? He coulda done something with his life, like play piano in a whorehouse, but THIS?

Kiddin', bro. I'm about bustin' with pride in the lad, and as you're coming out, he's coming up. The Big Green Machine rolls along...

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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell

Officer of Engineers

Sgt-Maj Tankguy, pay no attention to the Master-Sergeant. A case of the son surpassing the father.

So am I, MSgt.

As you should. I truly cannot say this is a case of the son surpassing the father but your son has learned from the father. While you have directed the action and he will lead in the action, this is all because you have lead his way.

I know you are proud of your son, but believe me, he is more proud of you. You are the reason he became his own man.

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Chimo

Bluesman

Hey, WABbits, have y'all met this classy Canuck yet? Cool guy; get to know him, and thank me for your profit.

Seriously, Colonel, I thank you. I'm passing this on to PFC Blueskid.

Oh, an update: after arriving in Vilseck, Germany, the home of his regiment, he and his four traveling companions were divvied up into their receiving units: four to the 3rd Squadron, one to Regimental HQ.

Guess who's going to Regiment?

He's as mad as a rat in a coffee can. Here he goes and joins the ARMY, COMBAT ARMS, as a CAV SCOUT, the highest-deployment rates ANYwhere, and what happens? While his regiment is goin' 90-to-nothin' through Baghdad, HE, of ALL people, gets assigned to REGIMENT?!?!

He talked to the Sergeant Major about the horror of life in Germany (), and I guess they took pity on him (). He'll get orders to continue movement to Baghdad in @ 90 days. That will give him @ 6-7 months in-country. If he'd gone on time, the Army would've given him credit for the full tour, even though it would've been @ nine months' worth of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment's fifteen, which would've been a great deal. Now, we're not sure how they'll count it.

tankie

Hi , im with you on the guitars mate .

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TANKIE , WITHOUT WAX

Ray

Welcome.

Most of these British RTR chaps are not "Tankies".

They are Tankards and the guzzle like a Tank!

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"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

HAKUNA MATATA

glyn

crooks

Failte to the board Tankguy .

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Tankguy

So Bluesman, are you a blues fan? I dabble a bit with the Texas (SRV) blues. Got to have a hobby.

Ray, I learned about the tankie drinking habits in my three year hiatus with Her Majesty's forces. Good Lord. The first month I think I killed my liver. Every Christmas in the UK was a blur of drinking event after drinking event. It was fun.