Hi people

I am making a personalized gun barrel for my M1A2. I have made up several letterings. I just want your opinion on which one sounds/looks the best for an M1A2 gun barrel.

"To Hell You Go"

"Widow Maker"

"Yankee Muscle"

So what do you guys suggest?

Thanks,

Hugh

That's kind of where ever you want to take it. For the most part, I have seen gun tube names start with the letter of the company that tank is in, but there are also other cases where a unit has no requirement like that, so those sound good. *grin* That's the great thing about modelling. You can do what YOU want with it.

I like Widowmaker of Yankee Muscle.To Hell You Go doesn't sound just right.Yet,if you think it is the cats meow,go for it,or try an alternative like"From Hell".Just piping in with my $.02.








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I sort of like names like Exterminator, Reaper or pilager.

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Hugh:

You could have some fun here. Call it "Hugh Mongus"

If you can, put some pics of your M1A2 out here for us to see. Thanks.

Mine was "Almighty".

I believe tank crews usually do the naming with whatever they like. I saw an old M103 at camp lejeune named "filthy phil". The M1s and M88s had a great variety of names, so I think you could use whatever name you like. Of the three you gave, I like widowmaker.

well you got some good ones there. my self i either use cartoon creatures or songs for my names (i.e. Suzie Que and bugs) its all upto you!

Actually, the naming convention depends on the unit leadership. When I first got to my unit as a second lieutenant, we could name our tanks whatever we wanted (usually decided by the tank commander). Some tanks had the same name for a very long time and the new TC respected the crew's attachment to the name. My platoon sergeant's tank's name was "Christine" and had been "Christine" for several platoon sergeants.

My tank as a platoon leader didn't really have a name before I got there. Our platoon painted the platoon's name on the bore evacuator "Deuce's Wild". I named my tank "Wild One" since my call sign on the company frequency was "Deuce's Wild One" (shortened to just Wild One). The tank name was painted on the smoke grenade launcher storage boxes on the sides of the turret.

When I became company XO, the A-65 tank had always been named "Taz" and the Tazmanian Devil was the company's mascot. I left that name in place out of respect for company tradition.

Around this time we got a new battalion commander, command sergeant major and new M1A1s. Someone, I don't know who, made the decision that all A company tank names begin with the letter "A", same with B, C, D and HQs. Hard to find 14 decent names that begin with the letter "A". As XO, I circumvented the policy by painting the name "Almighty" on the front turret slopes, but painted "TAZ II" on the grenade boxes. Officially if anyone asked what the name of my tank was, we told them Almighty or Almighty Taz II. The company and crew still referred to the tank as just "Taz". We also painted a brown and tan Tazmanian Devil on the front slopes of all the company tanks. Our battalion commander encouraged this and each company had their logos painted on the front slopes of the turret in fairly colorful markings. His tank had an awesome picture of a tiger bursting through the turret.

As a company commander in the 1st Cav, tanks in our battalion never carried a name. Don't know why.

I had my Gunner lose a tooth when we were at AT one year ( didn't see the tank ditch for all the elephant grass), so in honor, I put "Snaggletooth" on the bore evacuator while boresighting...

A number of years ago I built an M1IP for a friend. It was his son's tank in Korea in the early 90s. I can't remember the unit (and I gave him back all the photos after completing the model) but on one turret face was the unit insignia (a dragon in a shield) and on the other side was a rectangle with the four card suits in each corner, the word "ACES" under a large "A" in the center. On each side of the gun barrel was the tank's name: "ARES" for the god of war. The tank was dark green with black cammo and all markings were stencilled in black.

I never crewed an AFV, but when I was in Germany in the late 70s/early 80s, we had discreetly named most of the vehicles in our motor pool. We had an M880 (pick-up) that we called the Millenium Sparrow and a deuce-and-a-half known as the Battlescar Gallactica (both with twisted sci-fi names). The names were written on the logbooks and on the windshields with Magic Marker (which really made the battery commander and the first sergeant happy ...)

When my Dad was in Nam, he had an M151 named "Boom Boom" (sorry, but I won't translate for the kiddies) I have always wanted to model. Dad was always a little Dinky Dau and it was fun to listen to him try to explain that one to Mom.

In my unit in 1976 after we drew our M-60A2's,each crew named their tank,with the first letter of the company.
How appropriate for the M-60A2 that I was on to be named Chaos.
I would suppose,you could do a company letter on the gun tube,but also a personal name elsewhere on the turret.

GO PATRIOTS.Go to your living rooms.GO sit down.GO watch other teams playing in the post season.
BUT I AM A DIE HARD/OFTEN PATRIOTS FAN....

I heard from a fellow mechanic that was in ADA unit that the platoon of Bradleys they had where named after porn stars

I saw a picture of an M1 currently in Kuwait that has "All the way to Baghdad" painted on the gun tube. I thought that was pretty cool. I have it saved on my work computer. I stick it in my gallery when I get back to work.

I know of an Australian LAV Ambulance, happily named the ' abattoir ' by its crew. Medics are truly a sick bunch LOL