TWENTYNINE PALMS, Califs -- On the 1st Tank Battalion ramp, a special moment is being shared. A man walks carefully, but assuredly ascends the ramp. He’s moving toward a tank. When he arrives ...

The Marine Corps eliminated its M1 Abrams tanks because they were too heavy for practical use in the Pacific—but a lighter ...

The end of the Marine Corps' tank missions has officially begun. Marines with 1st Tank Battalion recently watched the last of their unit's tanks depart Twentynine Palms, California. Photos taken ...

The 1st Tank Battalion at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, was the latest to retire its tanks on Friday. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has ...

May 26 (UPI) --The U.S. Marine Corps' deactivation of its celebrated 1st Tank Battalion officially ended its involvement with active-duty tanks. A ceremony at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ...

So when tankers with the 1st Tank Battalion aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, heard of his last request, they were more than happy to oblige. Getting a ...

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 8, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), helped escort M1A1 Abrams tanks of 3rd Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion ...

WASHINGTON — The Army’s 761st Tank Battalion, known as the Black Panthers, was the first Black tank unit to fight in combat in World War II and will be the subject of a documentary to air ...

the 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment (1-35 AR), 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and the Polish 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade, 18th Mechanized Division ...

On April 28, 1918, the 1st Light Tank Battalion was organized at Bourg, France, with Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton, Jr., in command. Patton had been the first soldier assigned to the ...

Paul L. Bates, the white colonel who commanded the first black tank battalion to enter combat in World War II, died Tuesday at his home in Dunedin, Fla. He was 86. The cause was cancer ...