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http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005129
 
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Nice pic, but I think that was a ZSU 23-4 instead of a tank as the article says.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/zsu-23-4.htm
BTW: I was at Tallil in '91. Tallil was part of AO Bragg.
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Ei Temporis Vita Semper Resumo Sese
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Nope... this is an engineer varient of an MTLB.
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| You're right Steve. I didnt' see the blown up pic. It's definitely not a tank though.
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Heh... you've got to remember that the byline was written by a member of the USAF. They would consider a kid in a Radial Flyer wagon with a BB gun to be an AFV.[ ][ ]
"The degenerative and loony should never be denigrated but, rather, thanked. In their absence, the rest of you would be obliged to fill congressional seats... positions naturally unsavory to the sane and honorable." Thorax
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ZSUs are cool.
Go with God, but make Him walk the point.
If you load a mudfoot down with a lot of gadgets he has to watch somebody a lot more simply equipped - say with a stone axe - will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a Vernier. - Robert Heinlein
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