"Take a Look at this U.S. Army Comic Book" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 May 2015 11:06 p.m. PST |
"In 1972, the U.S. Army published a handy comic book with tips and tricks on how to ambush and destroy Soviet tanks. Presumably, the Army wanted to spur the interest of the average rifleman — a male somewhere between age 18 to 25. So the manual has cavemen, busty cavewomen and dinosaurs — yes, really — to go with the sometimes harebrained suggestions on how to be a "big game hunter." The illustrations are amazing. We'd best describe it as resembling the comic strip B.C. combined with a how-to guide on fighting a land war in Europe. "One of the hairiest things an infantryman can meet on the battlefield is a tank," the introduction from To Catch a Tank — "Big Game" Hunting Made Easy quickly admits. "[But] When you get right down to it, that big, ugly iron monster has a lot of weaknesses."…"
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| bishnak | 15 May 2015 3:34 a.m. PST |
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| Los456 | 15 May 2015 7:46 a.m. PST |
Many technical documents were issued in this format during the seventies and eighties. |
79thPA  | 15 May 2015 8:44 a.m. PST |
Yep, very common. My dad has boxes of this type of thing. |
| The Monstrous Jake | 15 May 2015 10:50 a.m. PST |
I remember those. I might still have an issue or two on vehicle maintenance hanging around here somewhere. |
| Tango01 | 15 May 2015 11:39 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
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 javelin98 | 15 May 2015 1:41 p.m. PST |
The Army published a monthly comic book with maintenance tips and tricks called PM ("Preventive Maintenance"). I used to love reading those things in the field, and I still have a couple tucked away somewhere. |
| MadMax17 | 15 May 2015 4:36 p.m. PST |
The Army still publishes PM monthly to this day |
| Just Jack | 15 May 2015 11:53 p.m. PST |
I can remember stuff in the 90's like that, with old Sgt Whatever-his-name was (comic character) telling us how to maintain various pieces of gear. Of course I was in the Marines, so it could have been from the 70s and 80s. In 95 I was issued a 'Gumby Suit' that was straight out of Vietnam, and in 2000 or 2001 we took GP tents to the field which were from the 1950s… V/R,
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