Re: TANK WARS

[Tom Hickcox <cometkazie1@cox.net>]

At 10:58 1/26/02 -0500, Jwscpd8@aol.com wrote:

> That was it for winter clothing.
>
> The equipment was from WW II, no antifreeze for the vehicles.  Put
> water in them in the morning, as they idled all day long, then were
> drained at night.  My machine-gun was dated 1917, the ammo ran
> through all kinds of dates, the C rations were dated 1943 to 1945 and
> this is in 1951. The batteries for the R 300 radio when taken out of
> a new box, would fail to work as they were dead.

We were still eating them at ROTC Camp at Ft. Hood in '60.

Tommy