It’s Tanker Tuesday
It’s Tanker Tuesday, and I offer a bit of history here, as well as the entertainment of watching tanks in use. Pop some popcorn, grab a beverage and have a good time.
In regard to the fight between Santa Ana and the people at the Alamo, cannons were used in the battle. Here’s a bit of history about it.
https://www.thealamo.org/remember/structures/preservation/alamo-battle-cannons.html
In case any of you tanker persons miss those old iron horses, here’s some place you can go on vacation and have a whale of a good time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zvy-_Ddg_E
And here’s the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard at the firing range in Basra, Iraq with a Challenger 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZf3HkT-1XA
NATO Training with tanks in Poland 2017
U.S., Polish, Lithuanian military assets maneuver near the Bemowo Piskie Training Area during Saber Strike 17. Saber Strike is a U.S. Army Europe-led multinational combined forces annual exercise. This year’s exercise includes integrated and synchronized deterrence-oriented training designed to improve interoperability and readiness of the militaries of the 20 participating nations throughout the Baltic region and Poland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeug_BtzfTU
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Guns, Historical
That Royal Scotts video was cool. The vehicle barely moves
when the gun is fired. Not sure what language the narrator
was speaking though.
I shared a lot of Tank pictures last week. Here’s another one I saw at the National Geographic Museum in D.C. a few years ago.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8OwrTSJzdjAGjSHV2
Great videos, again, Mi’Lady. You do know how to turn us on. (ducks a thrown skillet) And you cook too! Lubs me some stuff that goes KA-BOOOM!
Particularly enjoyed the Alamo piece. Wondering if either of my 2 ancestors that were there may have been Gun Bunnies on those pieces. Family lore has it that a GGGGGrand Uncle and a GGGGGrand Father was among those troops. They both,supposedly, met before the FIRST Battle of Bexar in December of ’35 and were in the fight that took it away from the Mexican Army. One of them was on the Scouting Mission when Santa Anna’s Army arrived in Feb of ’36 and had ridden to where Sam Houston was mustering men for the Defense of Texas. The other died at his post on 6 March 1836. Their descendents met a 110 years later and begat the 6 of us. My bucket list includes a visit, some day. Been sorta close, twice, but it didn’t happen. Part of my cancelled road trip from this past summer was to include a swing thru that section of Texas, and anyone that has been keeping up remembers me whining about how THAT turned out.
Tanks! We looked forward to Field Artillery Friday.