D Troop

$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\D Troop Armor guidon.gif$ Troop D $Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Troop D guidon.gif$ 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment January 1961 – June 1964
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\D 31 Stuck.jpg$	$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Chuck Riley on D-31 Jan-61.jpg$		D-31 after breaking through the shoulder of a newly constructed road near Amberg Germany during FTX Wintershield II in January – February 1961. Because the troop was in the middle of an offensive, the platoon leader jumped on another of his tanks and left his assistant tank commander and driver with the tank.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Sgt Max Whipps Surviving Wintershield II.jpg$	$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Sp5 Chuck Riley Surviving Wintershield II.jpg$		Assistant tank commander Max Whipps and driver Chuck Riley had to fend for themselves for two or three days. Discovering the usefulness of the hand pump, they survived quite well by trading gasoline to local Germans for bier und brot (beer and bread) to supplement their C-rations.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\D Troop on Berge Hohne Firing Line 4-61.jpg$		D Troop's M48A2s on firing line at Belsen-Hohne (aka Bergen-Belsen) April 1961 First Sergeant Draves keeps an eye on things.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\OGs at Beren Hohne 4-61.jpg$	$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Greens at Bergen Hohne 4-61.jpg$	Max Whipps April 1961 at Belsen-Hohne. Our winter work uniform consisted of the wool OG shirt, field trousers, and the "bunny" cap. "OG" stood for "olive green," but I've never seen an olive any where near that color. After loading our tanks onto flat cars, we got into our greens for our return trip by train to Fulda.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Sgt Whipps at Wildflecken Relay Site.jpg$ $Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Radio Relay Site at Wildflecken.jpg$		Max Whipps on duty at the cozy 1st Squadron Radio Relay hut atop Wasserkuppe (water crest) in 1962. Elevation of Wasserkuppe is 950 meters (3117 feet), which is the highest point in the state of Hessen.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Night TCQC.jpg$ $Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\TCQC.gif$		For some reason, D Troop and the tanks from HHT and the reconnaissance troops of the 1st Squadron always went to Grafenwöhr during the winter. This picture of an unidentified tank was taken during the night phase of the Tank Crew Qualification Course (TCQC). Only three or four of D Troop's crews qualified the first time we went through the course in 1962. More than half qualified in 1963, and all crews qualified in 1964 with their new M60A1 tanks.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\D55.jpg$		An M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (D-55) with canvas over a makeshift frame was used as the troop CP. The Circle–Trigon insignia denotes the troop was acting as an aggressor force. Two D Troop tanks are visible in the background at the Wildflecken training area.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\D Troop minus.jpg$		D Troop minus the third platoon which, along with a reconnaissance platoon and Howitzer Battery, is in the background awaiting the mounted portion in this 1964 review. D Troop used both the yellow Armor guidon and the red & white cavalry guidon, depending on the occasion.
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\3rdPlatoonTroop1964.jpg$		Third platoon's M60A1 tanks passing in mounted review 1964
$Description: C:\Users\Max 7\Documents\My Web Sites\Orfmax Website\images\Debbie & Sandy on Dynamite.jpg$		The redhead is Sandra, daughter of Max Whipps, who in 1964 was so unhappy with the hard steel of D-66 she opted for a career in the Air Force. Her sister Debbie, sitting next to the running light, thought it was okay but decided to become a civilian nurse.
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