Light Tanks in the T2K ACR's

[ArmySGT.]

Please include the source of this info ArmySGT.

[HorseSoldier]

I don't know if he's still active on any of the T2K boards, but Robert Munsey (1SG, maybe 1SG Ret at this point) used to post on some forums -- his resume (besides time in 2 ACR and other cavalry units) included being one of the guys from the cavalry side of the house who was tasked to the troop trials for the M8.

The one time I got to meet him face to face he still had all the TMs and other manuals they'd issued to the crews putting the M8s through their paces, and was generally a wealth of info on the system. His take on it was very favorable and that it was basically 100% ready to go, had the money not been pulled from the program. (In the finest tradition of military programs we of course spent several conex containers full of cash, courtesy of the US tax payer, before pulling the plug, but that's a whole other thread . . .).

[boogiedowndonovan]

I don't know if he's still active on any of the T2K boards, but Robert Munsey (1SG, maybe 1SG Ret at this point) used to post on some forums -- his resume (besides time in 2 ACR and other cavalry units) included being one of the guys from the cavalry side of the house who was tasked to the troop trials for the M8.

The one time I got to meet him face to face he still had all the TMs and other manuals they'd issued to the crews putting the M8s through their paces, and was generally a wealth of info on the system. His take on it was very favorable and that it was basically 100% ready to go, had the money not been pulled from the program. (In the finest tradition of military programs we of course spent several conex containers full of cash, courtesy of the US tax payer, before pulling the plug, but that's a whole other thread . . .).

wow I didn't know that about Muns (trial for M8 AGS). that is pretty cool.

shame about the M8, but yes thats a whole nuther thread!