Tanks Chats #148 | M548 | The Tank Museum

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  @DavidCowie2022 · 4 years ago

  &quot;A fifty-calibre adds class to any vehicle.&quot; <br>-- The Chieftain.

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• HA

  @harrisonrawlinson5650 · 4 years ago

  It’s a tracked pickup truck. Essential for all the behind the scenes work

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• FA

  @fabfabby · 4 years ago

  I couldn&apos;t click fast enough when I saw the 548. I loved this thing. Drove one as a Combat Engineer in the early 2000&apos;s with an M136 Volcano mounted in the back.

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  @21Wyvern · 4 years ago

  I&apos;d argue it was one of the most important vehicles in the museum. Logistics is the Achilles heel for some many &quot;great commanders&quot;

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• SP

  @spazmonkey2131 · 4 years ago

  I love that the comments is full of crewman with extra knowledge and info on the vehicle

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• RO

  @robertrousseaux1059 · 4 years ago

  Canadian story , working on our tanks one day when this 548 is moving slowly past us and we hear this cry for help. The driver was hanging out the drivers door , upside down with his parka caught on the tiller bars . We laughed and rescued him all at same time …

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• CH

  @charlesemerson6763 · 4 years ago

  Unsung hero of the battlefield.

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• JE

  @jerryjeromehawkins1712 · 4 years ago

  Just seems absolutely perfect. Plenty of cargo room... can go wherever tanks can go... brilliant.

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• TH

  @Thirdbase9 · 4 years ago

  As an old 13B in the US Army, I just have to say that driver&apos;s bench seat makes a great bed, especially if that big Detroit Diesel is still hot. I eventually explained why I volunteered to sleep out there, on the 4&quot; thick cushions.

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  @geoffcrowhurst2625 · 4 years ago

  I was the medic for the tankies in 1985-1986 and spent a couple of weeks driving around the training area in one of these. The crew had welded a bunk bed onto the rear deck so they slept in comfort while I, being auxiliary, slept on the ground outside.

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• JA

  @jarink1 · 4 years ago

  We had some in Military Intelligence, except ours were M1015s that added a large PTO-driven generator in the bed with an electronic shelter above it. They also had a device on the front bumper to drive grounding rods into the dirt. I used the MLQ-34 TACJAM which was based on this and was one heck of a radio jammer. It had 3x500w transmitters that could be combined or work independently, plus the antenna gave a gain of 2-4x. You could literally kill small birds with it if they landed on the antenna (saw that with my own eyes). Too bad the chassis were overloaded and not particularly reliable.

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  @11buster1000 · 4 years ago

  Takes me back to my days in 3/4cav RAAC loved driving them.

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