Thats one thing that the game had wrong was the USAR units - some of them had cavalry and armored equipment attached to them - for instance the 100th Training Division had M1 tanks and M3 Bradleys - but if you look at the US Army Vehicle Guide they say all they had was light infantry troops and 105mm guns - which is inaccurate. There were at least one battalion of tanks and two cavalry squadrons attached to that division. It was the only training division with the mission of conducting training on the M-1 Abrams tank and the M-3 Bradley Cavalry vehicle. Thus it probably would have been the most effective of the training units.
As for old tanks in the US - keep in mind that a lot of the current state of demilitarization of old tanks in the US, where they made damn sure they couldnt be able to fire, was after that nut stole that tank in 1995. Since then it has been a lot harder to be able to keep a tank in proper firing condition in the US in private hands. When I was a teenager we had a guy who owned a Sherman tank in my area that was 100% complete and operational - he even had a few shells for it - and not blanks either.
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