FORT IRWIN, Calif. -- Soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment participated in the Senior Instructor Trainer Course at the Advanced Gunnery Training Simulator on Fort Irwin, Calif., Feb. 9-13., ...

The US Army may have the best tanks in the world. But it has a problem: its tank gunners are rusty. "A gap exists today between the capabilities of tank weapon systems and the ability of crews to ...

Glenn Girona is a US Army combat veteran who served as a tanker on the M1 Abrams during the Iraq War. He said all of the tank jobs require skill, but gunning was his favorite and felt like a video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jay Tenison’s last ride started on Reddit, of all places. “I’m dying from stage IV stomach cancer. My wish is to do tank gunnery ...

The Polish army’s push to incorporate American-made Abrams tanks into its fighting formation will take a step forward this month, when a Polish crew for the first time takes aim at targets in a ...

LAMPASAS — Former U.S. Army tank gunner Keith Callis remembers heading into combat during the 1990-91 Desert Storm campaign to push Iraq out of Kuwait after the late Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded ...

Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, one of its last surviving heroes is gone. Clarence Smoyer, a native of Lehighton who’d been living with his daughter in Allentown, died Friday, ...

The good tank names just keep showing up these days. This is “Come On Bro,” an M1A1 Abrams tank assigned to 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, ...

The “Hero of Cologne” is going home one last time. Smoyer, who most recently was living with his daughter in Allentown, left Lehighton to join the Army when he was 19 years old. He was a tank gunner ...