Frank Carlucci Quotes
The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.
United States, Congress, House, Committee on Appropriations. Department of Defense Appropriations for 1982. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981, p. 345.
Washington took advantage of the new technology of explosives that had been developed and created an innovative new unit under the command of David Bushnell (1740–1824) the Yale University student who had invented the first time bomb and the Turtle submarine.
Frank Charles Carlucci III GCIH was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.