The loader and commander may also operate the two machine guns mounted on top of the turret. Generally, the gunner tells the loader which sort of round to load. The loader pulls rounds from the ammunition compartment and load them into the main gun. He also controls the front machine gun and monitors the main gun's general condition. He pinpoints targets using a stabilized sight, with day vision and thermal night vision capabilities, and a laser range-finder that precisely measures the distance to the target. The gunner targets enemy vehicles and bunkers and fires the main gun. He can monitor the tank's various systems and its position on his integrated display. He has several periscopes and a joystick-controlled independent thermal night vision viewer to survey the battlefield. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and check out 8 True Story Movies That Are Full Of Lies, and other videos you won't see on the site!Īlso, follow us on Facebook, and let's be best friends forever.The commander oversees the tank's operation, communicates with other tank commanders and directs the rest of the crew. Have a story to share with Cracked? Email us here. Get your tickets here!įor more insider perspectives, check out 5 Things You Learn At A Hospital In An Active Warzone and Here's What Soldiers Fighting ISIS Asked Us To Tell You.

Join Jack, Daniel, and the rest of the Cracked staff, along with comedians Brandie Posey and Steven Wilber, as they figure out if it's a realistic school like Degrassi or West Beverly High, or an institution from a fantasy world like Hogwarts, with its ghosts and dementors, or Bayside High, haunted by a monster known only to humans as Screech. This month, our goal is to determine what would be the best fictional school to go to. Usually, we just have to go to the high school closest to where we live, or whatever college accepts our SAT scores and personal essay. Contact him at The Best Fictional School To Attend? In the muggle world, we're not given the opportunity for a magical hat to tell us which school we should go to. Ĭezary Jan Strusiewicz is a Cracked columnist, interviewer, and editor. we can feel the mouth explosions coming on again. Oh, and I shot a tree down with one round from a mile away.' I blew the turret off an old tank in Germany during my training, so that was pretty cool. 'One time, we blew up an IED factory because they figured it was too booby-trapped to try to walk into. Yeah, you don't even need to be in the same zip code as the guy whose shit you're about to ruin.

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