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‘It just come off in my hand’
Yet another reader admits to driving tanks, or at least, tank-like things, for a living in the past.
‘In the Artillery we had tracked Rapiers, which isn’t strictly speaking a tank, but does have tracks,’ says Martin Amos, now an accountant. ‘We were on exercise once in Germany and the commander screamed to the driver to “track right”: you turn to the right by pulling the right tiller lever. ‘The vehicle kept going forward, so once again the commander angrily screamed “track right“. That’s when the tiller was passed up through the commander’s hatch – it had come off in the driver’s hand.’ We’re enjoying hearing form our ex-military readers. Please keep writing, so we can live vicariously through your anecdotes.
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