CAMP MORGAN, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Back in Minnesota, Sgt. Joe Winters of Little Falls is a gunner on one of the 2nd Battalion, 194th Armor's 67-ton M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks. Here at this U.S ...
RAMADI, Iraq The Vermont National Guard's Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 172nd Armor, became the first to start using so-called Pope Glass to gunner's turrets atop Humvees. The Pope Glass was the idea ...
TIKRIT, Iraq -- Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their ...