VFW Post #6856 Tank - Milltown, WI

This M60 A3 tank at the VFW Post #6856 outside Milltown, WI. comes courtesy the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 1st Battalion 632nd Armor division. The not-so-old tank now sits poised, forever it seems, about halfway between Balsam Lake and Milltown on State Highway 46. It's unclear if the tank ever saw any real action, but the M60 A3 was the cream of the M60 crop, with a reliable but slow diesel engine. The post-Cold War mobile command weapon was manufactured by Chrysler with a unique and deadly 105-mm main gun, highly advanced thermal-imaging system, escape hatch below the body and an innovative outside telephone for infantry to talk with the crew inside. M60 A3s were used as recently as the early 90s, and are still in use extensively across the globe, in various fashions. The VFW tank was rumored to have been filled with concrete once it was deposited on the site, but it hardly seems necessary, since a bone stock M60 A3 weighs in at just over 50 tons. This example was reportedly stripped bare of its internals and engine for parts and brought up to spec on the exterior as an attention-getter for the popular VFW post. They also decorate it with white holiday lights to make it even more captivating. BTW - the phone is gone.