Do tank crews ever get "carsick"?

[Thantos13]

underwater = no wave motion.

North Sea, State 4 seas, 400 feet down; Captain blowin' chuncks. 600 feet down much better.

[Feenix74]

Dude, in the air your apex predator is the ground! You have to meet him someday!

Any landing that you walk away from is a good landing  ^-^

In the air the apex predator is an aircraft:

[ANS Kamas P81]

Subs have places to be, and can't really transit confined, shallow or busy waterways underwater, it's a natural constraint. The real fun part is that subs can't actually submerge when the seas get above a certain level, so they just have to remain on the surface and tough it out. :-)

Commercial waterways when transiting to and from patrols, for example, or even just going into and out of harbors.  You don't WANT to play in the splashy parts, but you can't always avoid them.

And then there's those "oh my god" moments when you can feel wave action a hundred feet deep anyway, because rogue waves are a thing and Poseidon hates you all.

[Nightlord01]

Any landing that you walk away from is a good landing  ^-^

In the air the apex predator is an aircraft:

Lol, seems more like a suicide bomber than an apex predator. :-)

[Colt Ward]

I will be honest, while the list says some little PVT is supposed to drive the track since he is getting 'scut' work . . . I know plenty of NCOs and was one of the Specs that drove.  TC always went to the senior NCO . . . if they were not sitting in that hatch then it got fought over.

Because as noted, most folks did not want to be in the back, in the dark, in the heat with no idea WTF was going on- especially if the CVC boxes were not set up right.

[mbear]

... especially if the CVC boxes were not set up right.

CVC? Combat Vomit Container?

[Colt Ward]

nah, it was the boxes you could connect to the vehicle intercom system with . . . but they had to be set up right to listen in to the driver/TC channel or even the radios.

[DoctorMonkey]

Semi-related question... I have been reading a few things recently which, certainly in terms of the British Army, seem to refer to the person I have always thought of as the "loader" as the "operator" and I had understood that it was commonly the role of the most junior member of a tank crew but have seen at least one example where it was the highest after the tank commander*


Is this to do with the other role that person has the radio operator?


*the specific example was a tank at The Tank Museum and the tank was a regimental CO's ride

[Colt Ward]

I thought it was . . . TC, Gunner, Loader and then Driver for seniority.

[Failure16]

In the 11th ACR, it was TC, gunner, driver, then loader.  The TC and gunner may kill things, but the driver gets them there safely without being killed.

In other vehicles, like softskins and gun trucks, the order would be TC, gunner, and then driver often enough (if the TC wasn't acting as the gunner).

[ColBosch]

The other thing is that the driver of the Abrams gets to lie down all day. :D

[CDAT]

I never got "carsick" driving the M1 or even the bit of playing around in the M60 (never served in but did some playing around in them mostly driving, very little gunning/TC). I did get carsick when I made gunner, TC is not bad and was never a loader. My first unit was short staffed and so my tank was a three man crew with with our loader being what ever grunt we grabbed to be the loader. Position went loader (up to PFC), driver (up to SPC), gunner (up to Sgt), and TC (up to SFC/LTC).