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Transcript: 12TH CAV. REGT. THE FIRST TO FIRE TANK-MOUNTED CROWS
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- May 15, 2006
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INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
05-15-2006
FORT BLISS, Texas (Army News Service, May 15, 2006) - It's safer than
rolling across the battlefield in a steel tank and allows Soldiers to fire
a remote weapon system from inside the tank without the gunner hatch open.
Members of Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment recently
became the first U.S.-based unit to have the Common Remotely Operated Weapons
Station, and the only unit in the world to have it mounted on Abrams tanks.
"The CROWS mount on the tank gives an urban advantage so the tank
commander doesn't have to stick out of the hatch," said 2nd Lt. Sean Henley,
a platoon leader with Co. D, 2-12 Cavalry.
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