This Soldier Amputated His Own Leg to Help Save His Comrades When Their Tank Crashed
8 Oct 2019
Military.com | By Gina Harkins
Army Spc. Ezra Maes and two other soldiers fell asleep in their tank last year after a weeklong training exercise in Europe. When he woke up, the vehicle was speeding down a hill.
"I called out to the driver, 'Step on the brakes!'" the armor crewman recalled in an Army news release. But the parking brake had failed. And when the crew tried to use emergency braking procedures, the vehicle kept moving.
The 65-ton M1A2 Abrams tank had a hydraulic leak. The operational systems weren't responding, and the tank was speeding down the hill at about 90 mph.
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