IF WE NEED THEM, from the time the order is given? I bet 48 hours.

IF WE NEED THEM, from the time the public knows about it? less than 24 hrs..

FOR OUR ALLIES, a week(ish)..

but they'll be there for several days (weeks) before any confirmation of their presence is leaked out, if for no other reason than to downplay our nimbleness.

that was all based on lies, how do we know this isn't as well?

Where did all the M-1'z the Marines turn in years ago end up?

and yes, per the Reforger doctrine, there's always going to be tons of stuff
prepositioned in Europe.

ETA; we had some armored units in Poland years ago doing joint exercises; i thought some of
them stayed?

ETA II: speaking of 155mm rounds, you think they're heavy in a plane, try loading them into the
ready rack of a 155SP howitzer,,,,

My nephew is a loadmaster in Africa right now. Out of contact for me but i'll be interested when he gets back around April if he did any of the transport.

I can say with confidence that no US service members are going to exposed to Nukes or Bio weapons in Ukraine.

Remember this?


They really do play the long game.

From where to where.  In the 70s the Air Force said a C5 departing Peterson AFB (Colorado Springs) could only take off with one M60A1 (52 tons) but now they can take off with 2 M1s (~140 tons)?  That lead to a lot of Army (4ID) and AF (MAC) pissing contests.  The AF won.

That is one of the reasons we had POMCUS stocks in Europe and an island in Asia.

That's OK.  All those female 13Bs they recruited will be there to 'help'.

The problem isn't getting them there or training troops. It's allocating the right export models or downgrading ours as they need to be stripped of all sensitive US military tech, the armor packages for our tanks are also non exportable. All foreign export M1s are purposely downgraded and for good reason.

Good question, although the C-5 has gotten two new sets of engines since the 70s giving them about 25% more thrust.
Attached File

Tanks transported by train in Kansas after Biden announces M1 Abrams support for Ukraine

A day before Joe Biden announced that the US was to supply 31 M1 Abrams to Ukraine, a freight train was spotted transporting dozens of tanks in Kansas.
A clip from 24 January shows the military vehicles being pulled by a train approximately one mile west of Gorham on Highway 40.

Other armoured vehicles such as personnel carriers were also being transported.



Video of train.

General Dynamics Land Systems to Provide Abrams Tanks to Poland Under $1.1 Billion Foreign Military Sales Order
August 25, 2022
Polish Army to receive 250 tanks in the state-of-the-art M1A2 SEPv3 configuration

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), announced today that the U.S. Army has awarded it a Foreign Military Sales order worth up to $1.148 billion to deliver 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks to Poland.

The state-of-the-art M1A2 SEPv3 configuration features technological advancements in communications, fire control and lethality, reliability, sustainment and fuel efficiency, plus upgraded armor. Additionally, the SEPv3 Abrams is designed to seamlessly accept future upgrades.

“We are pleased to have been chosen to provide this critical armored capability to our allies in Poland,” said Chris Brown, vice president of global strategy and international business development at General Dynamics Land Systems. “The M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams is the most advanced main battle tank in the world, and we look forward to getting it into the hands of Polish Soldiers.”

While components of the Stryker and Namer are built from scratch in Lima, a brand new Abrams tank hasn't rolled off the line since 1996. Instead, mothballed Abrams are delivered from defense storage, stripped down, and refashioned in the latest configuration. Right now that's the 70-ton Abrams M1A2 SEPv3.

Putting together a battle tank is no small feat. It takes five months to produce a single Abrams. The plant currently completes eight of them a month. A few years ago, only one was coming off the line just to keep it warm. With the hiring of hundreds more workers, General Dynamics expects to get up to 34 a month.

MAR 17, 2019

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/lima-tank-plant/

That picture makes it look like they are just moving through the sky.  It took me a minute to realize that's snow on the bottom.    

I didn't see a single USMC Abrams when I was there.

M60A1s with bolt on reactive armor is what I saw.

Ewww, who still has tan vehicles.

Hope they have fun at NTC.

In Somalia, all our hummers we offloaded in 1992 were USMC variants.  There was a platoon of M1A1's in Mogadishu from the RCT but I don't recall if there was a USMC variant back then.