From: micdunn (micdunn@ev1.net)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 15:48:28 PST
There are still Mutts in service. The reason is simple. You can drive two
loaded Mutts into a Pave Low, insert behind the lines at 150 knots/40 feet,
land, then drive them out. Or you can strap a Hummvee underneath and insert
at 90 knots/200 feet. Which would you prefer? No reporters on those
missions!
-Sarge
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From: "James Shanks" <n1vbn@bit-net.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] More M35A2 Deuces in Iraq...
I also noticed on MSNBC while a reporter was babling away in the background
loaded trucks were rolling by. Yikes!! That's a M-109A3 towing an M-105A1
trailer loaded to the gunwales, three more modern trucks roll by and here
is another M-109A3 this one must have been a command version given it was
towing a generator trailer and had more antennae covering the roof.
I keep waiting to see a Mutt. There's gotta be a mutt out there
supporting the war effort. After all think about it, wasn't the M-35A2 and
kin supposed to out of front line service/inventory by the first of the
year. Unless the Third Division has some old hand Motor Pool Sergeants who
said to hell with the regulations, we don't have enough supply vehicles!!!!
THEY GO!!!! LOAD EM!!!
I can just hear him now.
James Shanks
n1vbn@bit-net.com
1998 IMZ 8.103
1984 H-D FLHT-C
At 10:25 AM 4/4/2003 -0500, Ryan Gill wrote:
>At 1:39 AM -0800 4/4/03, Jim Newton wrote:
>>QUESTION #2:
>>Also, why do a lot of the HMMWVs in the convoy have orange drapings
>>over the top of the cabs?
>
>Aerial recognition symbol. Thats what those louvered panels are as well,
>but those are for night.
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1984 H-D FLHT-C
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