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Gonna be a long day at the wash rack...
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Posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017 - 10:36 PM UTC
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Posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017 - 10:43 PM UTC
This is why we can't have nice things, you kids won't take care of them. You're all getting clothes for Christmas this year, no toys.
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Posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017 - 11:17 PM UTC

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This is why we can't have nice things, you kids won't take care of them. You're all getting clothes for Christmas this year, no toys.


Forget the clothes, shovels and scrub brushes!
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 12:35 AM UTC
"this is why Lieutenants don't trust their NCOs" https://youtu.be/TCXwgPZXScM
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 02:38 AM UTC

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"this is why Lieutenants don't trust their NCOs" https://youtu.be/TCXwgPZXScM


Thought he did a pretty respectable job getting that tank unstuck
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 03:52 AM UTC
Good cammo job!
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 05:02 AM UTC
Maybe I just can't see the picture right, but it looks Photoshopped to me. Any other photos of the same event?
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 06:16 AM UTC
I'm tending to agree with Joepanzer,, something's just not right about this pic. The towing vehicle looks like it just DID come off the wash-rack. And the tank has mud/dirt everywhere, EXCEPT for the entire barrel, which doesn't even have so much as a bit of muddy splatter on it.
Kenaicop
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 06:27 AM UTC
Found it here, legit site with another pic. Looks like it got into clay or something. The bigger pics show much more detail, don't think it shopped.

http://www.tank-net.com/forums/index.php?s=cfc0d31bf5b02709c3bdc32ea617e26e&showtopic=38154&page=161
Scarred
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 07:35 AM UTC
Looks like the dirt you encounter when digging out sewage drainfields. Probably smells like it too. 'nother pic...
https://i.redd.it/6g4sa7y86gnz.jpg
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 10:01 AM UTC
I wonder how the crew got out of the tank?
Are they still in there? Waiting for someone else to unstick the hatches at the wash rack?
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 10:04 AM UTC

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Looks like the dirt you encounter when digging out sewage drainfields. Probably smells like it too. 'nother pic...
https://i.redd.it/6g4sa7y86gnz.jpg


Looks like two soldiers in Swedish camouflage uniforms are involved in this "event"
Could it be Swedish mud ?
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 01:01 PM UTC

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I wonder how the crew got out of the tank?
Are they still in there? Waiting for someone else to unstick the hatches at the wash rack?


Drivers hatch is open in the second picture. Great, now they gotta wash that crud out of the inside.
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 02:17 PM UTC
Taking on any new challenge, Maintenance Support Team personnel of the Minnesota National Guard's 1st Combined Arms Battalion – 194th Armor got the opportunity to recover a 70 ton The M1A1 "Abrams Tank during a training exercise in Sweden Sept. 19, 2017.
While maneuvering as part of the international exercise, tankers of 1CAB – 194 Armor were surprised by soft ground resulting in a mired vehicle. Recovery crews from the unit’s MTS responded and in collaboration with our Swedish Armed Forces hosts extracted the tank.
Within less than 36 hours the battalion’s maintenance teams we able to recover, clean, repair and verify the tank making it fully mission capable and returning it to the simulated battlefield.
#aurora17"

Source:
1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor FB page
https://www.facebook.com/pg/194Armor/photos/?ref=page_internal

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