Tanks from the US Army's 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division prior to entering the live-fire lane during the combined arms live-fire exercise at Fort Hood in Exas, February 6, 2019. Maj. Carson Petry/US Army
Business Insider/We Are The Mighty: Here's the actual process US troops use to name their tanks
* An Army tank dedicated to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson brought renewed attention to how US troops name their vehicles.
* The naming process isn't as strange or disorderly as some of the names might suggest.
Recently, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson got a tank named after him. The actor/wrestler/producer took joy in being given the honors and posted the image onto his social media.
Because you can't go two days on the internet without some sort of backlash from people with nothing better to do than argue over some mundane thing that has absolutely no bearing on their life... people argued.
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