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From: nanis@llex.ll.mit.edu ( Jeff Nanis)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: M1 losses in Desert Storm???
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.014514.2778@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 01:45:14 GMT
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From: nanis@llex.ll.mit.edu ( Jeff Nanis)
In article <1991Jun27.021252.4898@cbnews.cb.att.com> camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (   James Seymour   ) writes:

>From: camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (   James Seymour   )
>>From earlier posts to sci.military, I was under the impression
>that we did not lose any M1's in the war.  Was I wrong?  Just
>what were our losses?

	What I heard was that no M1's were lost to _enemy fire_. Several
were lost to mines. Additionally, the (June/July/?) "Army" magazine had
an article about a platoon that lost one in a really wierd/stupid way.
The unit was destroying captured Iraqi equipment with machine gun fire.
One tank fired into a truck that was (too) close to another tank. The
truck was carrying some heavy duty ordnance (the article speculated SAMs)
and exploded, setting fire to the adjacent Abrams. Although the tank
was gutted, the crew escaped with minor scrapes, burns, and a sprain.
--
Jeff Nanis                            Radars 'r' us.  
nanis@ll.mit.edu                      An official opinion? Not on my life.