KEYT reported that diablo Canyon & SLO Veterans Museum Partner To Restore Army Tank Display. Cody Smith reported that i’m one of the leaders of the veterans department at Diablo Canyon Power Plant within PG&E,.

Cody Smith reported that i met with the museum director, he gave me a list of projects And then as soon as I saw that the tank restoration was on that with my background in tanks, that was immediately top of my list. Bryan Galvan reported that it's very inspiring to watch it evolve from its previous state to its current state,. Smith reported that this tank is the generation before the Abrams tank,.

Smith reported that so it's the Vietnam era. And then the Abrams tank came out in the Gulf War. And I served on the third generation of that platform. We had a volunteer group that contacted us that said they were interested in helping us here at the museum,.

“It's very inspiring to watch it evolve from its previous state to its current state,” says Bryan Galvan, Diablo Canyon Power Plant risk manager. The piece of equipment, an M60 battle tank model M60A3, weighs 53 tons and measures 22 feet long, 12 feet wide and 11 feet high. Many of the Diablo Canyon employees who participated are military veterans.

Volunteers utilized two pressure washers connected to 350ft of hose. Five gallons of primer, six gallons of topcoat, 300ft² of aluminum foil and paper for masking and hand-cut stencils. “I think it's important to keep monuments alive and in whatever capacity or history they serve,” says Smith. Reports differed on some details.

Cody Smith said, “I’m one of the leaders of the veterans department at Diablo Canyon Power Plant within PG&E,”.

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