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ABRAM (COJoNE) OIF engine on fire?
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Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 12:04 AM UTC
Check this out
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3559

I was looking for information about an M1ABRAMS that you saw on a road to Baghdad burnt out during the OIF campaign. I wanted to know whether it was an USMC M1 or an ARMY M1 and what were the causes! It is the second picture on the site (Link above) . It is the one with the tagged barrel "Cojone"
IT seems that it is an ARMY 3dID M1 right?
IS the ABRAms on picture 10 the same one that you see on the Picture 2 ? SO it was an engine failure , overheating, not an RPG round that caused the fire ???
Can anyone figure out what M1 it was ? A1/A2 ?
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Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 01:09 AM UTC


Yes it was an engine fire that caused Cojone Eh to be abandoned on a road in Baghdad and yes it was an Army 3rd ID tank. The 3rd ID only uses M1A1's and there weren't any M1A2's that saw combat, save a few that destroyed some abandoned T-72's at the end of the war.

Rob
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Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 02:02 AM UTC
Can anybody guess what COJONE means in the Rome's dialect?
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Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 03:33 AM UTC

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Can anybody guess what COJONE means in the Rome's dialect?

Since a large portion of the US Army's population is of Spanish speaking descent, the term is used quite frequently even among non-Spanish speakers. It is used to imply bravery like the terms "guts", "intestinal fortitude", "no fear", "got a pair of__", "brass balls", etc.
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Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 07:20 AM UTC
Sabot, you're very close (anatomically speaking) to what we mean...
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