The "Peacekeeper" vehicle extant when I was an Air Force employee
(retired 1988) hardly qualified as a "tank" in the accepted use of the
term. It was actually a four wheel, fairly light-duty armored car
intended (at Griffiss AFB, NY where I was employed) for use against
terrorist/civil disobedience ("peacenik") types. Griffiss was, at the
time, a SAC base with B-52s standing alert with nuclear weapons, waiting
for "the balloon to go up". There had been two or three peacenik
incursions which suceeded in damaging aircraft to the tune of several
hundred thousand dollars, etc., before the Peacekeepers were obtained.
As I recall (I stand to be corrected, as always), the Peacekeepers were
built on Dodge 3/4 or 1 ton truck chassis. Don't remember whether they
were 4x2 or 4x4 trucks, but "tanks" they weren't!
I assume that Mr. Kiser's quote came from a blurb in a newspaper which,
intentionally or otherwise, usually manages to get the details of such
things wrong. Never forget the prime directive of the popular press:
"Don't confuse us with facts, our minds are made up."
Ed Greeley
Mobile, AL
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