Kosh's Shadow 3/22/2022 5:09:58 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/22/2022 5:50:52 PM

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Occasional Reader 3/22/2022 7:08:12 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

To be supplemented by: Where to park a tank.  (Answer: Wherever you want.)

As I think I've mentioned before, the only time I've been inside an Abrams tank, was when there was one in the parking lot of a hotel here in DC in 1999 or 2000, for the US Army Association Convention.  The Abrams was parked in a handicapped space.  Three or four of them, actually.  I found this visually quite funny.

Kosh's Shadow 3/22/2022 7:14:18 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3:

I've never been in a tank. The closest was at the Johnny Ro Veteran's Memorial Park (link to photo album)

Occasional Reader 3/22/2022 8:08:28 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

I was quite surprised, and quite pleased, that the tank was open to the public. Also, it seems very few people I had the idea of walking up and asking if they could climb in the tank, so I pretty much had a thing to myself, aside from two or three soldiers who were manning it. Afterward, I strolled into the convention itself, and apparently everybody assumed that because I was a relatively fit looking guy with a short haircut, I must be military. This was pre-9/11, of course, so security was a lot more relaxed than I imagine it is now for these kinds of things. Anyway, that is also where I got to test fire a javelin, at least virtually so.