ABSTRACT
The first lesson young soldiers learn as they train to be tankers is that modern tanks do not care which persons they kill. Living in and around tanks is often as dangerous to the crew as it is to enemy soldiers or noncombatants. The second lesson tankers learn is that modern tanks do not work unless one is a member of a team. Only a tank crew can make the tank serve its purpose. Every company of tanks has its Achilles – a tank commander and his crew that seem peerless – but that was not author place at the time. The most dangerous spot inside a tank is behind the breech of the main gun. Twelve tons of steel that will crush anyone foolish enough to stand behind it when the main gun fires.
