nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) (03/19/91)
From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) From waldo@dsacg3!dsac.dla.mil (Mark Aldo) >From Graper Brad P (MTSD/FIO) <graper@BRL.MIL> >For those who read the article describing US unit organizations: >.......................... All the cooks now belong to HHC. All the cooks belonged to HHC when I was in 1/37 Armor of the 1st Armor Division way back in early '70s. >Each tank company has three platoons of four tanks each, and two HQ tanks. >The battalion HQ also also has two tanks. I was in HHC...Headquarters Tank Section -- we had three tanks. We were to pro- tect the Battalion CP. One of the tanks was the Battalion CO's tank if/when he chose to get aboard as its commander (just once on a 'minor' firing range, I was its commander on all other ranges, as well as the leader over the three tank section). Also, I'd swear that our line companies (Alpha, Bravo, & Charlie) all had six tanks to a platoon plus the Company CO's tank...but, since I can't remember that for sure, I won't press that issue;-);-) ...the six tanks that is...I'm positive about the Company CO's tank (three M60A1s with 'dozer blade attached -- A-68, B-68, and C-68). >The battalion also has a scout platoon and mortar platoon. We had these guys within the Combat Support Company of our battalion. In fact, at one point in time CSC's CO tried to press for our three tanks be moved (not assigned/attached to...but literally moved) to the Scout Plattoon of CSC. They even wanted us to paint little 'scout' flags on our bore evacuators; however, our CO, being the wonderful Armor officer that he was, couldn't/wouldn't al- low that. Headquarters Tank Section was still with HHC when I left in August of '74. *** No Flames Intended (NFI) *** -- Mark Aldo UUCP: (osu-cis)!dsacg1!waldo INTERNET: waldo@dsac.dla.mil "...Hotel Quebec One Six...You are clear to begin your night run on Range Eight Zero....Good luck, good shooting...Tower, out" -- radio transmission from Control Tower - Range 80 at Grafenwoehr, Germany
eachus@aries.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) (03/21/91)
From: eachus@aries.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) In article <1991Mar19.045043.9835@cbnews.att.com> nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo) writes: >Each tank company has three platoons of four tanks each, and two HQ tanks. >The battalion HQ also also has two tanks. I was in HHC...Headquarters Tank Section -- we had three tanks. We were to pro- tect the Battalion CP. One of the tanks was the Battalion CO's tank if/when he chose to get aboard as its commander (just once on a 'minor' firing range, I was its commander on all other ranges, as well as the leader over the three tank section). Also, I'd swear that our line companies (Alpha, Bravo, & Charlie) all had six tanks to a platoon plus the Company CO's tank...but, since I can't remember that for sure, I won't press that issue;-);-) ...the six tanks that is...I'm positive about the Company CO's tank (three M60A1s with 'dozer blade attached -- A-68, B-68, and C-68). When I was assigned to 2/37th (4th AD) in Fuerth, Germany 1966-1968, each line company had three platoons of 5 M60A1's, and two HQ platoon tanks. The 66 tank belonged to the company commander, and the 68 (dozer) tank was "officially" assigned to the company XO, but SOP put him in the commo track. (So I got to TC the dozer. :-) HQ company had three tanks for a total of 54 per battalion. One of the HQ company tanks was H66, commanded officially by the battalion commander. In practice, the battalion commander had little time for training, so the gunner on H66 had better be damn good, and know how to politely tell a light colonel what he did wrong when he fucked up during practice. Most of the Armor companies in the desert had 14 tanks, four M1A1's per line platoon, two in the HQ platoon. I never saw a dozer tank on CNN, but I know they were used to fill the ditches and push over the berms. Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is... -- Robert I. Eachus