{"id":678,"date":"2005-03-31T00:44:29","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T06:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=678"},"modified":"2005-03-31T01:07:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T07:07:47","slug":"yo-old-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Looking at U.S. Tanks in Urban Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to bed, but wanting to point other dumbass tankers (DATs) towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2005-03-29-tank-inside_x.htm\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2005-03-29-abrams-tank-a_x.htm\">this<\/a> about the M1&#8217;s employment in urban Iraq (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/\">Argghhh!<\/a>).  Check out the graphic on urban upgrades &#8212; intriguing stuff.  It&#8217;s interesting that the external phone is a flashback to WWII and the exhaust barrier is a big duh, but there&#8217;s no change that the TC&#8217;s Ma Deuce is still externally loaded.  Too big a mod for a quick change, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool stuff, all considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to bed, but wanting to point other dumbass tankers (DATs) towards this and this about the M1&#8217;s employment in urban Iraq (hat tip to Argghhh!). Check out the graphic on urban upgrades &#8212; intriguing stuff. It&#8217;s interesting that the external phone is a flashback to WWII and the exhaust barrier is a big duh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}