Aechere Crump, was bleeding heavily from a cut on her thigh, and driver Pfc. The tank crashed into an embankment at the bottom of a ravine, tossing its crew around. “We realized there was nothing else we could do and just held on,” Maes said. He called out to the driver to stop, but the parking brake had failed and a hydraulic leak had left operational systems unresponsive, making emergency braking useless, the Army statement said. Maes, then 20, was the loader on the tank’s 120mm main cannon.
On the second day of a weeklong exercise in southern Slovakia in September 2018, three crewmembers who had gone to sleep in their tank were jolted awake as the nearly 70-ton machine started rolling down a slope, gaining speed as it went.
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