From: Paul A. Thomas (bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 08:23:47 PDT
Oh yeah. They were our tiny toys. We each had 2-3 5 Ton tractors
assigned to us as the company was always short drivers... We had the
wrecker... flight line tugs.. but the mules were what we played in the
swamp with. In the 2.5 years I was there I don't recall any of them going
down for any length of time... perhaps we had an arrangement with another
company for parts. I was a surprised at what you can trade booze or
cigarettes for when you need it. <g>
Paul
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At 06:22 AM 6/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
> From: "Paul A. Thomas" <bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com>
> Sent: 6/19/03 7:13:38 AM
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: Re: [MV] Mule vs Gator
> > Mule's were gone before I entered the army, and that was 1977
>
> I joined the Army in '78. We had three mules in our motor pool. It Was
>in
> Camp Humphries, Korea, where perhaps our equipment was behind the
>times..
> but have them we did.
>
>=====
>But did you use them... ;')
>2ID was somewhat the neglected child back then it seemed. It took almost 3
>months to get a replacement engine for a M113.
>I was at Camp Casey with 1/17 INF (M) from January 78 to January 79.
>
>
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