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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
How many were used in Afghanistan?
Operational usage kicks the #### out of equipment and casuses it to age fast, especially in some of the env'ts over there.
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I read somewhere that two squadrons were always deployed over there, however I'm not sure if we were rotating them back or leaving them there.
Probably a quarter or more of our tanks went over three.
And yeah they got the crap kicked out of them, with the A2's we had to jury rig air conditioners on them so that the crew wouldn't cook like turkies in an oven.
But tanks proved their versatility in Afghanistan and showed why tracked vehicles are still superior to wheeled vehicles.
Thank god we didn't buy into the Stryker program.