I think I'd rather be in a tank than just an unprotected soldier with a rifle in my hands. Thank god I only had to experience the latter in peace time.:dead:

That's why you sign up for the airforce.:haha:

Or the Pay Corps :O:

Wish they would do a movie about WW2 panzers... I think they could make a good movie about a ww2 tank crew...

I wish they'd do the true story of Michael Wittmann. More amazing stuff happened in his career than in every hollywood BS war movie combined. I wonder why they think they need to make stuff up when the truth is infinitely more bizarre and interesting:hmmm:

I hope its....

The Battle of Kursk.

He was SS, that film wont get financed in Hollywood or Germany, it would make a good one tough.

Same with some of the fighter aces.
But you could imagine a movie about Hans-Joachim Marseille getting finacing, he was a personality, partied all night and flew with a hangover.:|\\
And it would have the non Hollywood Das Boot ending.

You cannot hide in a tank, i consider surviving a war as a tanker very hard.:hmmm:

Depends on what you are up against. I believe that no American tanker died during the last Iraq war although some Abrams have been disabled by enemy fire. The crew protection of modern MBTs is somewhat better than it used to be in the old days. If you are just an infantry man pretty much everyone and everything can kill you.

True but even in Libanon when faced with modern missiles and prepared defence the situation was different.

Or a terrain like Finland, you are channeled in to a killing zone where everything is after you.

Minefields in the front, sides, new ones launched by MLRS in your rear.

Missiles and RPGs open up on you, artillery and mortars firing anti-tank mutions.

Ground attacking planes and helicopters hunt for you.

You are the number one target for everyone in that area.

I wanted first to go to Armor but then i came to my senses and went Recon.:smug:

Nicer to ambush than to get ambushed.

I surrender http://www.olemiss.edu/courses/math2...white_flag.gif

Heck yeah. Deliver ones ordinance on the target and be back at base in time to shower and take that hot nurse with the big ta ta's to the USO show. :DL

Hmm, and I thought you were from north of the channel Jim. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDX7I...eature=related
was looking up someting on youtube earlyer, came accrost this. Pretty good film with some tanks in it.:yep:

I never you you were French?:haha: