Marc the change over to a 4 tank platoon occured with the "Division 86" and task force concept. It was one of the early changes and the 5th tank went away between 80 and 83 as the changes were implemented with all changes completed by 86, hence Division 86. Basically the TOE for an Infantry Div changed to that of an Armor Div because of the Soviet threat. The 5th tank was transfered to the new Armor units. They also went to 4 companies of tanks and Combat Support Company went away with the scouts and motors going to HHC and Combat Engineer assets (AVLB and CEV) going back to engineer Bns.
Under task force organization units were chopped to each other. In an Infantry Bde the tank Bn would send units to an infantry Bn and receive infantry assets in return. The armor bn would then be set up with one pure armor company, 2 "heavy" companies with 2 tank platoons and 1 inf plt and one lite company with 1 armor plt and 1 inf plts. The sister inf bn would then have 1 pure inf co, 2 lites and one heavy. The only thing that was wrong with that was that armor officers at the time of the change didn't know how to use infantry and infantry offices didn't know how to use armor. That problem was fixed at the advanced courses. The only way they could have made that better would have been to keep the task force set up in garrison. I think it would have worked better if the tankers and grunts had lived and worked together in garrison making them a more cohesive team.
The M551 fired caseless ammo. We would try to get the rubber protective boots from thier ammo to use a muzzel covers for our 105 tubes.
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