(Four Months Later)

After four month of doing nothing but sitting class listening and running through situations, everyone was ready to get into some real action again. Everyone was tired of just shooting at targets all day long and running through crash courses, but before they could they had a tank crew discussion that they all had to do over the weekend. "I can't believe we have to do this over the weekend!" Complained Rainbow while her, Applejack and Fleetfoot all waited for their friends and teammates at a small café in the town that was about ten minutes from the Academy.
"Can I get you mares anything today?" asked there waitress.
"No we're waiting for some friends to get here from the Tank Academy down the road." said Fleetfoot.
"Oh, you mean the Tank Academy that the 'Reaper' crew is in charge of?"
"Yeah, why do ya ask?" asked Applejack, while Fleetfoot and Rainbow Dash look back at the waitress.
"Because before they set up that tank academy this town was so small you couldn't find it on a map and now thanks to them we are a busy little town."
"How is it that you became such a big town? I mean besides the Tank Academy." asked Rainbow.
"Well that is because people come to watch the Mid-terms and the finals for excitement and some of the big teams also come around to see if they can find any new recruits for their teams. But I have to get back to work call me back over when you are ready to order." The girls looked at each other as the waitress left and then their friends walked into the café.
"So did you guys get your assignment for this weekend?" asked Fleetfoot.
"We got another situation discussion that involves just our tank against five other tanks. When can we all start the war games like the brochure said." complained Spitfire
"Well since we all have the same situation maybe we should all do it right now so we can get it done." said Twilight and everypony thought about it for a while and they all agreed, the same waitress from before came back and the all ordered and while they waited for their food and drinks they began their discussion.
"Ok, so the situation is this we have our tank against five other tanks in a town. The five tanks consist of a Chaffee light tank, a T-34-85 medium tank, a Centurion 7/1 medium tank, an ISU-152 tank destroyer and a ARL 44 heavy tank. What tank should be taken out first in order blind the enemy to your movements?"
"Well out of all five tanks the Chaffee is the only tank meant for recon and is fast enough for it too, correct. So we take out the Chaffee first and don't have to worry about it." said Spitfire, everypony nodded in agreement.
"So which tank do we take out next, because we still have the tank destroyer, the heavy tank and the two mediums left." said Rainbow Dash.
"Good question, the tank destroyer has the firepower to take out our tank, but the heavy with the mediums could also take out our tank with a distraction?" said Twilight.
After a few hours they were done with the situation and they all sat talking and then the same waitress came up and gave them their checks. Then Cody came in and handed a envelope to the owner and shook hands with him and left, confused the Fleetfoot over looked and asked the waitress, "What was that about?"
"Oh, you mean the envelope? Well the 'Reaper' tank crew donates money to all the local businesses, even to the St. Jude children hospital down the road." said the Waitress, "huh, you know what I just realized? They never tell any of the owners where it comes from when they ask." the waitress left soon after that, leaving the rest of the girls still confused as to where the 'Reaper' crew is getting all of this money to pay for so many things.

The next morning the girls woke up as always with the sound of a trumpet and a blank round being fired from an M53/55, but it was different from other mornings for instance their breakfast was brought to their dorms with a letter that said, ' All tankers are to report to their garages and prep their tanks for the mid-terms to begin, then report to the war games fields for their tests.', They all looked confused but they did what the letter asked anyway. After breakfast they went into their garage and started to get to work on the tanks, each pony going through a check list that Twilight put together for all of them and their stations. Rainbow, Applejack and Fleetfoot went about gathering and storing the ammunition, they also helped work on the engine. Pinkie pie and Rapidfire cleaned the cannon and made sure the sights were on and that the auto-eject mechanism was working and in working order. Rarity and Soarin checked the radios. Fluttershy and Misty Fly were checking the tracks and the drive sprockets. Spitfire and Twilight were making sure that they could see clearly out of their command hatch viewports. After the checklists were done they all made their way to the war games fields, on the way there they noticed that at the very edge of the field there was about half a coliseum of bleachers at the front of the fields and they were packed with people. After about ten minutes the rest of the class arrived as well as the drill Sergeants, in front of them Wyatt and the others stood on a plat form and said, "Well this is your Mid-Term, You are all to team up with fellow tanks if you wish and you will versus the Drill Sergeants and if you manage to knock-out at least one of their tanks you pass but fail to knock-out any and you will be here again and again until you do. Now TANKERS START YOUR ENGINS AND ROLL OUT!"

Author's Note

For the Discussion that they had to do, leave what you would do in the comments.
Also what is your favorite WWII to pre-cold war tank be it experimental or on blueprint only.