1/31/2024 0 Comments Us military painted name tank![]() ![]() ![]() “I think just having it in Wheatfield is awesome and just to be able to see a tank there that was used in war, and the helicopter. “Veterans, I hold them – and so does the community – hold them at the highest regards, and to be able to have a veteran monument in our hometown is amazing and it's a great honor to the vets,” he said. Gooch said it was a tough gig for the kids but, fortunately, town justices Angela Stamm-Philipps and Gary Strenkoski provided pizza and drinks for the hard workers.įor Gooch, it was all about making sure local veterans have a memorial they can be proud of. Overall, the project took about three hours between scraping, wire brushing, cleaning and painting the tank. “There was some rust as it hadn’t been painted in years and, when I heard talk that they were looking to get it painted, I thought it would be nice to tie the Boy Scouts into it and help some of them get their merit badge by doing a good deed,” Gooch said. Gooch said when he heard the Wheatfield Veterans Memorial Committee – the group of volunteers who helped fund the memorial project, including its recently completed monument – was looking to have it painted, he jumped at the chance to volunteer and to give some local Scouts a really cool way to work toward their merit badges. ![]() The painting was done by Niagara County Legislator Jesse Gooch, who also owns Painter’s Plus along with his son, Tyler, and a couple of kids from Cub Scout Troop 824. ![]() While it's still green, of course, the tank now more closely matches the paint of the UH1-D Huey helicopter also featured in the memorial. Last week, the M-60A3 army tank located at the Wheatfield Veterans Memorial received a fresh coat of paint. ![]()
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