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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
On the other hand, the ability of an M-1 to sneak through the woods could always be counted upon to surprise the infantry. We actually took a section of four M-1s up on of Hohenfels razor-back ridges and sat on top, looking down into an infantry battalion as they prepared an anti-armor ambush for our squadron.
We sat up there, laughing our arses off, as the umpires drove around and "god-gunned" just about every vehicle that battalion. Gotta love simulated artillery!
At the end, when the umpires revealed to the PBI that they had been under direct observation by tanks. The LTC screamed that there were no tanks to his front...the look on his face when we crashed through the trees upslope and to his rear was a true Kodak moment!
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A place the M1s could stalk in confidence was at NTC, with it's "low-high" terrain. You might think a jet engine on a tank would be loud, but often you wouldn't hear them until they came over a berm or out of a draw. Then, suddenly they're loud enough to make you fear for your hearing. Tankers in M1s can be quite sneaky.