[Milsurplus] Grunt Phone at Falluja

[Hubert Miller]

I thought the "tank talkie" was a thing of the past, only WWII. Fair Radio, I recall, had these in some classic catalog of the past.
Here's something from the N.Y. Times, 26 May 2019, excerpted from a memoir "Places and Names", by Elliot Ackerman :

"On the back of an M1 Abrams tank there is a little telephone in a box tapped into the crew's intercom; it's called a grunt phone.
I've never been so scared as the times I had to run to that grunt phone, bullets impacts dancing on the tank's armor, their
ricochets flashing like fistfuls of thrown coins. I needed to get on that grunt phone to tell the tanks where to shoot. The tank
crew would listen to music on their intercom, so if no one was talking you'd hear pop songs when you held the handset to your
ear. The tankers I worked with liked Britney Spears.  The squat crew chief, who looked like he was born to fit inside a tank, told me
he played the music because it helped everyone in the tank stay 'frosty'. "

via: Hue
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