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...residual military presence in the country is unnecessary. With that aim in mind, Washington has undertaken a $251 million crash program to rebuild the regular Lebanese army, which is in a state of serious disrepair after eight years of civil war and sectarian strife. Last week 32 U.S.-made M48 tanks were hoisted off a ship in Beirut for delivery to the Lebanese army. Twenty-eight Green Berets from the U.S. Army Special Forces, part of a team of 75 American advisers now in Lebanon, will begin training the Lebanese in infantry procedures and antiterrorist tactics this week...
...101st checks out its 18 tanks. They are "Iron Coffins," old M48 Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox...
...complicated piece of machinery. But to the soldier using it, all that complicated stuff is hidden. Instead, he's got panels with a couple of dials. If you train a gunner on an XM1 tank and compare the amount of hours that takes with gunner training on an M48 tank two generations ago, the difference dramatically favors...
...blunt that possibility, Washington has sold Bangkok $400 million worth of sophisticated weapons in the past fiscal year, including 150 M48 tanks. A spokesman for the Defense Department said last week that shipments of arms to Thailand had been speeded up during the past several months because the U.S. has been concerned that the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia might spread to other countries...
...small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...