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Actually, anymore, Strata Blue is a thing of the past. All the trucks, vans and cars, are painted in "the manufacturer's color that most closely matches Strata Blue." All part of cost savings. Why bring in a new car and respray when a close color will work. That is the mentality. In our unit, we had minivans, staff cars and pickups with very pretty dark blue paint jobs. They were so good that you could probably swap plates and drive them off the base and nobody would look twice; not military looking in the least. As far as some parts being OD under the Strata and others all blue, there is a pretty easy explanation. When the government has a contract for parts of what have you, it is specified that the parts will come from whatever maker and will be in whatever shade of OD is in use by the Army at that time. I believe all vehicles go through the Army channels. SO when we got our fenders, bumpers, or whatever, we would respray it Strata to match. And by the way, we still do have a Strata M38A1 that we use, (palletized) to load on and off C-141's to practice with, complete with all the USAF markings.
Sean
MVPA 14222
51 M135
53 M38A1
67 M416
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In a message dated 06/04/00 14:03:19 GMT Daylight Time,
jeffrey.barron@farmcreditmaine.com writes:
<< and would like to paint it "Strato Blue". I believe
it is a Navy color. >>
Jeff.........
The colour you want is a USAF colour.... Strata Blue 15045. This is a
full-gloss colour. As far as this colour being used on M38s, I can confirm
that this is so. In a scrapyard here in England, there were several (6 in
fact) M38s piled in a sort of pyramid.... 3 on the floor, two on top of them,
and one (fitted with a hard-top) at the apex of the pile. All had been bought
ex-USAF and all were in strata blue. Everyone who went to the yard to attempt
to purchase these vehicles came away even bluer than the jeeps..... as
nothing could induce the scrapyard owner (or was it his dog.... I could never
tell the two apart).... to sell....he was always "about to restore them
himself".
When I was last down at Mildenhall USAF base in Suffolk, I noticed several
vans belonging to the AF which were painted gloss blue..... and very nice
they looked too.
Kind regards.....
Ken
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