In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.