{"id":110143,"date":"2021-02-02T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110143"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:23:10","slug":"its-tanker-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110143","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Tanker Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-108777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alamo-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alamo-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alamo-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alamo-500x333.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alamo.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Tanker Tuesday, and I offer a bit of history here, as well as the entertainment of watching tanks in use. Pop some popcorn, grab a beverage and have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to the fight between Santa Ana and the people at the Alamo, cannons were used in the battle. Here&#8217;s a bit of history about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thealamo.org\/remember\/structures\/preservation\/alamo-battle-cannons.html\">https:\/\/www.thealamo.org\/remember\/structures\/preservation\/alamo-battle-cannons.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In case any of you tanker persons miss those old iron horses, here\u2019s some place you can go on vacation and have a whale of a good time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Zvy-_Ddg_E\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Zvy-_Ddg_E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard at the firing range in Basra, Iraq with a Challenger 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZf3HkT-1XA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZf3HkT-1XA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NATO Training with tanks in Poland 2017<\/p>\n<p>U.S., Polish, Lithuanian military assets maneuver near the Bemowo Piskie Training Area during Saber Strike 17. Saber Strike is a U.S. Army Europe-led multinational combined forces annual exercise. This year\u2019s exercise includes integrated and synchronized deterrence-oriented training designed to improve interoperability and readiness of the militaries of the 20 participating nations throughout the Baltic region and Poland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yeug_BtzfTU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yeug_BtzfTU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tanker Tuesday, and I offer a bit of history here, as well as the entertainment &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s Tanker Tuesday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110143\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Tanker Tuesday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,156,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-guns","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110145,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110143\/revisions\/110145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}