European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Camp Monterey combat ing Mai practice their Ekl Lle on a disabled soviet made tank one of die Many War carcasses littering the deserts of to vaporize an iraqi tank combat engineers from Charlie company 10th engr in Lind a wealth of objects in the desert on which to hone their demolition skills a disabled soviet built t-55 tank serves As an Ideal Laboratory for the engineers from Kitzinger Germany to discover what 500 pounds of c-4 explosives can do to a tank. The soldiers pack c-4 into every opening they can find on the tank and string Detonator Cord Christmas tree like from one end to the other. The resulting explosion propels debris More than 100 feet into the air and 500 Yards across the desert. When the smoke clears the engineers discover there is not much left to show that the target had been a tank except for a Section of tread and a few pieces of the engine. Quot we done to get to do this sort of thing Back in Germany says capt. Norbert Cintron company commander the Guys love it november 13, 1991 the stars and stripes
