Remembering the 'Reveille': 30 years ago, members of Spokane Police Department participated in a Gulf War tank battle
By KIP HILL | The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. | Published: February 26, 2021 SPOKANE, Wash. (Tribune News Service) — Lance Cpl. Brad Hallock woke to a very bad software glitch on Feb. 25, 1991. The just-turned-20-year-old Marine Corps reservist found himself in an M1-A1 Abrams tank as a column of Iraqi tanks rolled along less than 2 miles away from his position. He looked through his sights, but found only a large letter "F" indicating a failure of the 68-ton war machine's targeting systems. "I had a different word I was thinking of, at that point," Hallock said in an interview this...
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