Just saw this, looks like fun

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 5, 2017

Hope this link works. Looks like a lot of fun.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/you-too-can-drive-a-wwii-era-tank-in-texas/vi-AAnHOFv?ocid=spartandhp

Steve@Advance · Mar 5, 2017

I saw a local TV show about that.

It does look like fun, but way out of my price range!

Duner Wi · Mar 5, 2017

I would try that once. Why not?

Ivan in Mich · Mar 5, 2017

I got to drive one a couple of times when I was on active duty. I was in an Engineer company and we had 2 tank retrivers to move disabled equit ito the sho with. I drove those many times and it was a ball. We would never move in one without ground spoters so we did not run over anyone or anything.

Steve A W · Mar 5, 2017

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Galen Houk · Mar 5, 2017

I rode in one when I was at Fort Hood Texas (APC). Kind of weird when you can't see anything. There were three tank deaths while I was there. One rolled over and the guy sticking out the top hatch was killed. Another, a sargent was sleeping in front of a tank in the field when someone started it up and ran over him. One a jeep stopped in front of a tank and it ran over the Jeep. Someone stole one from the motor pool and raced down the highway with the police in hot pursuit. I think he finally lost a track and that stopped him. Choppers were also deadly. In one accident two or three choppers collided and I think it was over 11 killed. At Fort Bliss, a Cobra hit a power line during night time training. Both crewmen were killed and the pieces of the chopper were collected in a five ton. Nothing recognizable. I thought how horrible it would be to loose a loved one in combat but maybe even worse to loose someone in peacetime.

hd6gtom · Mar 5, 2017

Was in them too many times to want to do it again.

oldtanker · Mar 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 18:32:42 03/05/17) Was in them too many times to want to do it again.

LOL me too for 20 years, M60A1s and A3s, M1s, IPs and A1s, 74-96. They were a blast (pun intended) and I loved them. Don't miss em now.

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