{"id":56711,"date":"2014-11-27T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56711"},"modified":"2014-11-27T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:38:50","slug":"us-tanks-to-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56711","title":{"rendered":"US Tanks to Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, 2013, the last US tanks left Germany<\/a> for the first time since 1945, but now, the Obama Defense Department, according to AFP<\/a>, says they’re sending tanks back, tanks, not troops. The armored vehicles will be pre-positioned in Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries;<\/p>\n

Nearly 50 armored vehicles are already in place and another 100 M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles will be “pre-positioned” in Germany and possibly elsewhere for the US troops conducting drills with NATO partners, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges told AFP in a phone interview from Estonia.<\/p>\n

“The troops will come over and train, and they’ll go back. The equipment will stay behind,” Hodges said.<\/p>\n

The arrangement was “a lot cheaper” than transporting tanks across the Atlantic and more efficient for the training mission, the general said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what would have been even cheaper? Not removing the tanks from Europe in the first place, maybe having a little bit of foresight and realizing that it only invited Russian aggression. But, see they were probably reading the Washington Pos<\/a>t that declared tanks are now obsolete.<\/p>\n

So, now that I’m using pictures of the “last convoy” from Iraq, I can now use my “Last tank” from Germany photo, too. <\/p>\n

The article says that the 1st Cav is going to be the first unit to rotate into the pre-positioned equipment. I’m pretty sure that they already did that in the late 70s, you know, during the Carter years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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