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Title: Possible M4 skin
Post by: JunkyII on March 01, 2010, 04:58:00 PM
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: lyric1 on March 01, 2010, 05:12:11 PM
Picture needed.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: 007Rusty on March 01, 2010, 05:18:56 PM
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/17001967.gif)
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: lyric1 on March 01, 2010, 05:46:21 PM
Where at least is your HQ maybe there is pictures of it on the web?
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Treize69 on March 01, 2010, 06:52:55 PM
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute

Don't ever remember seeing a Firefly at Drum. Must have missed that one.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Guppy35 on March 01, 2010, 06:53:12 PM
My Brigades HQ has a Firefly at the entrance.....I dont know if its the original color but it is almost a red and black skin.


Anyone know if there was a Firefly with a skin like that? Looks pretty cool :salute

Might want to double check on whether it's a Firefly or some other Sherman variant.  Real surviving Firefly's are rare.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Fencer51 on March 01, 2010, 06:56:20 PM
I can't find any reference for a tank at Fort Drum, let alone a Firefly.. bet it is a M4/76 variant.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: lyric1 on March 01, 2010, 07:11:11 PM
Where at least is your HQ maybe there is pictures of it on the web?
Doh... right under your avatar is the location.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Spikes on March 01, 2010, 07:14:09 PM
Don't ever remember seeing a Firefly at Drum. Must have missed that one.
Same...been there a couple times but never saw one.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: JunkyII on March 01, 2010, 07:19:38 PM
Heres the site for my Brigade I couldnt find any pictures of the HQ.

http://www.drum.army.mil/sites/tenants/division/3BCT/HQ/default.asp


Im 90% sure it is a firefly. FT Drum used to have acouple of Armor divisions at it but someone was smart and made it the home of the light infantry :aok

The units from the 10Th Mountain were made famous in Italy, but that was the Mountain units I dont know about the Armor corps.

Ill get a pic sometime soon....been kinda busy the last 2 weeks doing In-processing and getting thrown around my battalion like a ball.

"Climb to glory"......."To the top"
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Treize69 on March 01, 2010, 07:27:14 PM
Heres the site for my Brigade I couldnt find any pictures of the HQ.

http://www.drum.army.mil/sites/tenants/division/3BCT/HQ/default.asp


Im 90% sure it is a firefly. FT Drum used to have acouple of Armor divisions at it but someone was smart and made it the home of the light infantry :aok

The units from the 10Th Mountain were made famous in Italy, but that was the Mountain units I dont know about the Armor corps.

Ill get a pic sometime soon....been kinda busy the last 2 weeks doing In-processing and getting thrown around my battalion like a ball.

"Climb to glory"......."To the top"

If it's to commemorate one of the units that used to be based at the Pine Barracks, it's most likely not a Firefly. Probably as Fencer said, anM4/76mm.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: JunkyII on March 01, 2010, 07:33:56 PM
If it's to commemorate one of the units that used to be based at the Pine Barracks, it's most likely not a Firefly. Probably as Fencer said, anM4/76mm.
Can it be a new gv?
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Guppy35 on March 01, 2010, 08:06:11 PM
Checked the list of surviving Fireflys in Mark Haywards excellent book on the Firefly.  Only one survivor in the US and it's just a turret mounted on a regular Sherman hull at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

Probably an M4/76
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Fencer51 on March 01, 2010, 09:00:18 PM
Yeah that;s what I thought too Guppy.
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Treize69 on March 02, 2010, 06:48:21 AM
Now I want to take a drive up to Drum and get a photo. But I think I'll wait until the permafrost melts. :)
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: JunkyII on March 02, 2010, 06:51:59 AM
Now I want to take a drive up to Drum and get a photo. But I think I'll wait until the permafrost melts. :)
Its been a mild winter....I was colder on leave in MD :salute
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Treize69 on March 02, 2010, 07:00:40 AM
Yeah, but the trees still grow sideways up there from the wind. I've been up there in the winter when you think your car is going to roll over waiting at a stop sign. No thank you. :)
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: JunkyII on March 02, 2010, 07:04:27 AM
Yeah, but the trees still grow sideways up there from the wind. I've been up there in the winter when you think your car is going to roll over waiting at a stop sign. No thank you. :)
:rofl :rofl :rofl little girly armor boy :D
Title: Re: Possible M4 skin
Post by: Treize69 on March 02, 2010, 07:43:17 AM
:rofl :rofl :rofl little girly armor boy :D

Nah, local who doesn't want to deal with worse weather than he already lives with every day. We might be as cold and snowy, but we don't get the wind you guys do up there, I'm a good 50 miles inland. :)