Re: Australian tank squadrons
Which, of course, conflicts with the "offical" information provided on the Austrlian Goverment website Pat provided. By that, they had "offically" switched to three tanks per troop in 1968.
Troops in the field frequently make their own changes organizations like this and there very well may have been "special arrangements" made in Vietnam keeping the old number of tanks in the squadron but holding one back per troop for maintanance and war being what it is and subject to whims of commanders there may very well have been cases where 4 tanks per troop were fielded after 1968 but according to this info 3 per troop was the norm from about 1968. The info that continues to allude us is the report that they have gone to a three troop 4 tanks per troop organization and I think the only way we are going to know that for sure is if a serving member of the Australian army pops up. Right now I am "assuming" if it's true they have gone back to a 4 tank troop but cut the number of troops in a Sdn to 3 it happened when the Abrams was introduced.
That's what makes OOB work such a &$@!!! treat........
Don
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