Bill, tell me about it. We went from a tank that if needed could be fueled once every other day to one we had to fill every day. And we darn sure were not putting anywhere near 500 miles a day on em. But with just regular maneuvers we would easily burn 300-350 gallons between moving and keeping the batteries charged. When training for defense we would still burn 150 gallons a day. Guys keep in mind at tank Battalion has 58 tanks. That's a lot of fuel. When we first got the M1's my unit did a 20 day exercise. S4 (supply) didn't realize just how much fuel we would burn and allocated the same amount of fuel we used in the M60A1's (M60 series tank used a V12, air cooled Continental 1970 CI diesel that made 750 shaft HP) . 10 days into the exercise we were out of fuel. Luck for us near by AF fuel storage tanks had contaminated fuel that the AF was looking at having to pay to get rid of. They gave the fuel to us after testing to be sure it wouldn't damage the tanks, so they could clean the tanks and use them again. But with JP4 we couldn't use the smoke generators.
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