U.S. Tanks & Howitzers Passing Through German Town 

Looks at title: *Hey, I’ve seen this before!*

Kids: Wow cool Grandpa: *Ah shit here we go again*

Younger people: hah cool Grandpa: GET ZE PANZERFAUST

Just like my MP convoy escort tour of duty in Germany from 1982 to 1990. The German Polizei were outstanding at helping us move our heavy armored equipment up and down the Autobahns and through the towns and villages.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="199">3:19</a> he's gonna get pulled over for that burned out headlight.

Nobody: German villagers: not again

Abrams: where are we? Abrams gun: home sweet home..

I remember those days in 1986..Was part of Air Defence unit so dragged out of bed in the middle of the night to go and sit on the border for a while. Love the country, loved the people and the food....yum. Thank you Germany for wonderful memories. Stay safe guys and god speed.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="203">3:23</a> “ hello there, just 70 tonnes of freedom passing through”

The US rolled on Berlin in WW2. 70 years later they do it as allies. Crazy world

Nobody: German forest near the highway: "AMERIKANER!!! FEUER!!!"

It brings back memories of the many hours spent on this beast. Best job I ever had.

I'm not sure they need that police escort...

*Battle of the Rhine flashbacks intensifies*

Germans: good least it's not the Russians

Brave young soldiers. God bless both the USA and The German People.

It's amazing how a different camo scheme can make a tank look so much different. It's like two different tanks when looking at the tank desert scheme and the woodland scheme.

Old German guys: "Oh Scheiße, hier gehen wir wieder"

For all the people talking shit about America having tanks and troops in Germany, it's not as if Americans are there as some sort of occupying force. We train side by side with Germans and many other nationalities.

I was stationed in Germany for 15 years in the 80s and 90s and participated in every REFORGER scheduled during that time, and always in the Fulda Gap. German citizens weren't the only people terrified to have to drive around large tracked vehicles. It's not so bad on a bright dry day. On a long cold muddy wet night in the middle of a stand of trees, it's a completely different story.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="70">1:10</a> - How to nap at work

Is it just me but the M1A2 looks badass with that forest camo .

German veterans hiding in the villages: *Ive seen this before!*

The Abrams is such a handsome tank. Especially when it's in woodland camo.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="71">1:11</a> He's sitting their like WTF am I doing here?

" They see me rolling, they hating "

Look at all the Russia and Putin lovers and trolls in the commentary section. Just wonderful.

I am so glad to see my soldiers have their High quality tanks.

That's a lot of freedom right there!

Nothing like good U.S. HEAVY ARMOR!

What game is this? Graphics looks really good.

Thank you to our allies in Germany! Sister tanks and a long heritage together! I hope that we were respectful of your roads.

I remember tooling down the roads in Germany with a Major in a jeep following with a checkbook to pay off the Germans who claimed we damaged their property or land. Seems we never crushed an old German car, they were always brand new ones.

“Hey, can we speed it up a bit? I don’t want the Russians to beat us to Berlin again.”

German grandpa: Looks our window Also German grandpa: Wait something’s not right...

I went to school near the Hohne training areas and remember watching convoys of tanks rumbling past our house. One lasted over an hour!

The news: Massive oil reserve found near german town America: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="193">3:13</a> GET OUT OF THE WAY LOOKS LIKE THIS GERMAN TOWN NEEDS SOME FREEDOM BABY

For anyone wondering why the Abrams makes a "whining" sound its because it literally uses a jet engine turbine and prefers to run on JP-7 jet fuel, but its built to run on really anything that burns all the way down to shit like Kerosene.

I remember doing this back in my Army days at the 1/37 Armor Battalion. 1984-86.... Great memories💙🇺🇸

I was stationed in Aschoffenberg, Germany in 1985 to 87, M-1 tankers war games and gunnery in Holensfelts and Grafenwohr, beautiful country, for Freedom stay safe brothers and sisters

I remember doing this in 1986. I loved Germany. The people, places, the FOOD!

Stop the joke "wich way to berlin" Berlin is now fine, well most of it

As soon as seeing the title, the comments are pretty much as expected. And indeed, Germany died since 1945

I remember unloading M60 tanks off of flat cars that were about a foot narrower than the tank in 1967-68. The good old days in the 4th Armored Division.

Folks, this brings back some fond memories! I was an 11E2T (Sherridan Tanker back in 1969 (Budingen, Germany)). I remember very well driving thru small German towns up near the Fulda Gap. I got out in 1971 and became a Los Angeles County Emergency Paramedic. I went back in the Army to Warrant Officer Academy (Fort Rucker) followed by Flight School. I retired in 1997 as a Senior Warrant flying Blackhawks. Once out, I completed my BS and Master's Degrees and was recalled back on active duty x 3 years (after being out 10 years (hip pocket orders) in 2007 because the 1st Cav was short Blackhawk pilots & bodies to go to Iraq. My hats off you you younger troopers. NOT a good time to be in the military. God Bless all of you, stay safe, and keep your heads low. Thank you for your Service and sacrifice. I know, been there done that. Hooah

Kids: woah its my first time seeing one! Grandpa: ahh Scheiße Hanz Where is My Pak 40?

"Which way to Berlin?"

Remember those days in Germany as Mechanized Infantry TC. M113s APC rolling in the German country side. 1987 -90 Baumholder Germany 1/13 Inf & 3/12 Inf

i would love to see a king tiger drive by

Out of the way, America coming through lol.

When I was young in the early 1970's, my family visited Germany and Austria. We were in some old restaurant in some small village in Germany. I was in the bathroom and all of a sudden the entire building started shaking and I thought it would collapse and there was all this noise outside. So I went outside to check out what was going on and it was the US military driving their tanks through the city. Being just a kid I thought it was awesome. You don't see that too often in Los Angeles.

This clip is from a more recent time, I was stationed in Baumholder back around 1983 to 84. I was in the 1st of the 83rd FA fire direction center. We had M109 A1s and our FDC was in a M577 A1 command post carrier. We still had jeeps and M548s to haul the ammo. 5 ton trucks and M561 gamma goats, those were real man killers. In fact during my whole time in the army 81 to 89 we still wore old Steel pot helmets and ate C rations. We did live fire excersizes at Grafenwohr near the east German border and during my year there we went on like 3 reforges. We would rail load like these guys then move to Grafenwohr unload and fire right in front of the east German and Russian guard towers. On reforger we would drive out of Baumholder and drive around Germany, crash our way through tiny little villages and destroy cars, sign posts, buildings and just keep going, some officer followed behind us and wrote out IOUs for the damage then we'd pull over into some farmers field and do dry firing missions mostly with our nuke rounds and fuses. The higher ups always denied this but we knew that with only 250,000 men plus a handful of Brits, bundeswehr, along we were facing some 4,000,000 reds with 20,000 guns and 40,000 tanks so there was no way we could win. The plan was to hold the Fulfa Gap till reinforcements from Greenland we're airlifted over first to Britain then across the channel to us. Hopefully the French would mobilize but it would take them days to a week or more to get troops across the Rhein. Because of that after most of us were killed off we would keep one gun what we called then gun number 3 the base piece a scratch FDC and an ammo section to pass out nukes rounds to the gun, we at the fdc would open the safe and get the nuke firing codes to get the nuke fuses out of the safe . Screw in the fuses, set the deflection and Quadrant and charge height of burst at 50 meters then shoot a couple nukes at the 4th Siberian horde and pack up and try to get to France before the reds and the nuke clouds didn't get us first. I read recently where what they now are calling the war scare of 83 which had been classified had had it's info partially released but most of it was still secret. Of course by 1990 the wall came down and filthy ass wipe commies collapsed excepr for a handful of lunatics like Putin who should be tied to the back of a tank and dragged across the Ukraine then nailed to a tree in Moscow like we used to do to people we had no use for down south. just so you know I was born in Texas not far from the Alamo and have lived the last 45 years in Alabama!!! I may be 64 now but I'm still an expert marksman. If they would take me I'd volunteer to go to Ukraine and try to kill one or two before they got me. By the way when we drove through those German villages there were always three or four old fellows who would come to attention and give us a good straight arm salute, Wehrmacht or waffen SS they knew we were there to fight the filthy reds. We all just saluted back no one made fun of them. At their age you knew they were veterans of the worse war of the last 100 years. Long live Ukraine.

Much love for Germany from a German American!

This looks like REFORGER. Every years folks. Good times. Good memories.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="240">04:00</a> I like how the humvee has his warning lights on, just in case anybody doesn't notice a column of tanks approaching them.

WW2 vets: Hey, I’ve seen this one before! People born after 1945: What do you mean? It’s brand new!

German ww2 vet :looks out window: Him: what the he-

My time in Germany was the early 80s and 90s. I was proud to serve and always will be proud to serve as an Infantryman. I served with awesome soldiers and will never regret the time as a soldier. Soldier for Life!

Behold. We are bringing you democracy.

Beautiful. I had the pleasure of working with Tankers in Grafenwöhr. I trained them there in using and troubleshooting commo as well in North Macedonia even though I was 11M10 I was also trained in commo. Looking forward to seeing them help liberate Ukraine. Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!

For 45 years, the M109 family of SP howitzers has been the MAIN artillery weapon of the US Armored Force. In the right hands, a deadly and versatile King of Battle.

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="71">1:11</a>, he had flashbacks of Iraq and Afghanistan 😂😂😂 (LIKE "My God, It's Full of Stars" POST!) I sort of took his idea, lol

Everyone: "Here we go again..." Me: "Wow Abrams with woodland camo!"

Desert camouflage in Europe? You aren't in Iraq anymore.

The anti American presence is strong in this comment section.

I went to the comments expecting memes... 100% not disappointed lol

有個細節很重要:美國坦克的炮塔是向前的，而德國人在自己的領土上開坦克炮塔却是向後的。

It's amazing to see how big they are compared to a car.

Reminds me of the days when I was a kid, when we were stationed in Schweinfurt. They'd drive the tanks from the main barracks to the barracks across town to load them onto the train. We'd all line the part of the route that ran behind our homes to see our fathers go to the "field". Memories right here!

This brings back some awesome memories of when I served over in Europe for two tours, one tour was several rotations up on the border between Czechoslovakia and West Germany with many rotations in Hohenfels and Graf doing table 8 and table 12, did a few Reforgers as well.

Ah how I miss the days. Just the sound on start up alone makes you happy to be a 19kilo.

Imagen just walking your dog and see hundreds of tanks drive by you looking like world war 3 is happening

1945: U.S. tanks had to battle through a year of bloodshed to reach Germany. 2014: U.S. tanks leisurely arrive in Germany by train.

Proud to be a part of the Army family for the past 32 years, Hohenfels been there twice, my oldest daughter was even born there, while stationed there, and will be back in Hohenfels this Aug for schooling

Keeping them railworkers & polizei busy? A lot of work goes into these exercises. Best to all serving. Always thankful & grateful for the jobs you all do & complete.

It seems like the people hating on these Americans would rather have Russia's weapons and army in central Europe instead lol

“We’ve awakened a sleeping giant......and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

Them: "USA go home! War is over! Russia went home!" Me: *patiently waiting for Russia to leave East Prussia, the Kuril Islands and Crimea*

Thank you ❤️🇺🇦💪❤️🇺🇸💪

These tanks don't roar like Leopards, but whine like giant vacuum cleaners!

I love the turbine packed stoves, so happy our tanks got them, music to my ears, USA! 🇺🇲

8 trips to Grafenwoehr, 3 to Wildflecken, 2 REFORGER, 2 "Freeze-Ex". 3rd Infantry Division , Kitzingen Germany 1978-1982

When a german veteran sees the tank: oh fuck son get my panzerfaust on the basement

I just love the idea that someone gets up thinking today will be just as normal as any other day, heads to the store, and then sees a large tank conveyor pass the intersection. "Should never have drunk so much American Whiskey last night."

It's kind of hilarious just seeing their tiny heads peeking out from under this massive fucking gun at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="245">4:05</a>

was there 83 to 85 in Bamburg road marching to graf and lot of towns in West Germany on an M 109A2

So many coments from rusian people here against American trops! I hate them. God bless USA.

When the minecraft faction builds over a village

Me see the title: go straight to comment secotion

Toby I don’t think where in Iraq anymore

The mightiest military on earth! 🇺🇸

Participated in several moves like this from Baumholder to Grafenwohr while serving with the 8th Infantry Division. Long night; seems like we took every siding! It was fascinating to see German railroading in action. A lot of places still had crossing gates operated by gate guards in little huts by the tracks. Reminded me of looking a a Marklin catalog when I was a kid. Seems like a lifetime ago which I guess it was.......... 13E20, Field Artillery Fire Direction, Bravo Battery, 3/16 Field Artillery (8-inch) Baumholder, FRG '74-'77.

The Tank's Tracks doesn't damage the roadways?

I remember back in the 80's and 90's my pop would get a phone call at 3am once or twice a year. So he would have to get dressed and go to work. Then when he got there he would have to put his helmet and gun belt on and sit at his desk drinks coffee and watch the 2nd ACR pull all the tanks out and from up to roll out. Then after a few hours they would just put them back away. He told me this is how CWO get ready for Alerts. Miss living in Germany as a Army Brat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Other people: Cool! Grandpa:Oh no, NOT AGAIN!

Last time I heard this was my 20th Century history book!

Sherman vs Tiger : Tiger won M1A1 vs Leopard : Wait, we're friends now.

I'm back to this video because I have a curiosity: What would these whiners in the comment section crying "Americans fuck off from Germany!" be feeling now as Trump is the new POTUS? He doesn't want America to keep spending fortunes in defending another country, when its people are not grateful at all but in fact despise and mock his country. How annoying would that be to him? You'll finally convince him to make your dreams come true. Then you got to spend your own in what they did for you.. Good luck with that, guys!

German grandpas got flashbacks like: "Can you tell please how can I get to Berlin" 😂

It's hard to stop a Train, even harder when you have Tanks on it...