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BuckSkin 
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 Topic: You're in the Army Now
Posted: 24 Apr 2025 at 9:48pm |
Saturday_22-March-2025
U.S. Main Battle Tank M60A3
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105mm M68E1 4.1-inch bore
Built: 1978–1983
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 24 Apr 2025 at 10:12pm |
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you take a lot of photos Buck.... Where were you at ? You travel around the state or country ?
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 24 Apr 2025 at 10:22pm |
 steve(ill) wrote:
you take a lot of photos Buck.... Where were you at ? You travel around the state or country ? |
I guess I do take a few but I miss as many as I take; I am forevermore kicking myself for various missed photo opportunities.
I hope you guys enjoy them.
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JC-WI
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Posted: 24 Apr 2025 at 11:53pm |
Shoulda took it for a test drive... 
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DMiller
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025 at 8:37am |
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Got to see the testing of M60A2 in 1975(Meaner Firepower), the testing of a the M70MBT prototypes at Ft Knox same time, would become the M1 Abrams.
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Dave H
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025 at 11:25am |
Hmmmm, I thought the main battle tank was the M1A1. 
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025 at 2:47pm |
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that was built after I was in the Army and discharged
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Les Kerf
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025 at 2:48pm |
Dave H wrote:
Hmmmm, I thought the main battle tank was the M1A1. |
It is now. The M60 was king back in my day though 
Edit: The venerable M60 made a pretty good showing in the hands of the Marines during the second Gulf War against the Soviet armor.
Edited by Les Kerf - 25 Apr 2025 at 2:55pm
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025 at 2:52pm |
I remember a recruiting poster circa mid-1970's that was extolling the finer 'selling points' of the M60, it mentioned, among other things, the air-cooled 12-cylinder diesel engine that delivered 3 gallons per mile fuel economy, the 105 mm high-velocity main gun, and lastly, "Parking! Who's going to argue for your space?" 
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Posted: 16 Sep 2025 at 10:15pm |
1918 Holt 5-Ton Crawler - WWI Artillery Puller
As Seen at Renfro Valley Appalachian Harvest Festival__2006
Holt was the predecessor of Caterpillar.
Owned by Harold Chambers of Winfield, Tennessee
This photo taken Saturday_06-October-2007
This photo taken Saturday_06-October-2007
US Hwy 25 - Renfro Valley - Rockcastle County - Kentucky I-75 Exit #62 Saturday_07-October-2006
37° 23' 1.07"N 84° 19' 43.12"W Elevation 928'
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Posted: 29 Aug 2026 at 2:57am |
Saturday_25-July-2026
As Seen on Broadway
1967 8-inch Self-propelled Howitzer M110 A2
In U.S. service 1963-1994; still being used in many other countries.
Largest Howitzer ever in the U.S. Army; projectiles weigh over 200-lbs.
16-mile range; 19-miles using Rocket Assisted Projectiles.
Hydraulic Rammer maximum rate of fire = three rounds every two minutes; manual rammer rate of fire = four rounds per minute.
Sustained rate of fire = one round every two minutes.
Powered by a 405hp 8V71T Detroit
On the North side of East US Hwy 68 at Mile #7(226)
Campbellsville - Taylor County - Kentucky
37°21'16.57" North Parallel - 85°19'42.66" West Meridian 868' Above Sea Level
Photos taken through the glass of a moving vehicle.
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Posted: 06 Sep 2026 at 4:49am |
Saturday_25-July-2026
As Seen at American Legion Post #82
120mm M103 Heavy Combat Tank
Although this is the end facing the highway, we are looking at the rear of the tank, not the front.
In US service 1957-1974.
Largest most powerful Tank ever built; designed to destroy enemy tanks at extreme distances, the M103 would out-slug any land-fighting machine ever built.
5-rounds/minute
65-tons Combat Loaded
Powered by a 750hp air-cooled twin-turbocharged V12 Continental Diesel Engine.
I have driven past these guns all my driving life and not until now knew that Campbellsville had on display the largest Howitzer and the biggest Combat Tank ever built.
On the North side of East US Hwy 68 at Mile #7.4(226) Campbellsville - Taylor County - Kentucky
37°21'29.89" North Parallel - 85°19'22.11" West Meridian 874' Above Sea Level
Photo taken through the glass of a moving vehicle.
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Posted: 06 Sep 2026 at 6:32am |
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Buckskin thanks for sharing all your great tank photos. Takes me back to that 1970s World War II movie classic comedy-adventure Kelly's Heroes. The iconic line spoken by the eccentric, beatnik American tank commander "Oddball" (played by Donald Sutherland). Whenever things go well or his crew fires their customized Sherman tank's main gun, Oddball playfully makes barking and howling sounds into his radio headset, yelling, "Woof, woof, woof!
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Posted: 06 Sep 2026 at 3:34pm |
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