From: International Movie Services (ims@telus.net)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 11:03:43 PDT
Then again you the last user unit could have had the equivalent of a
Corporal Sutherland who was in my Transport Company. He was in charge of
cutting and applying stencils and pretty soon everything, including the
kitchen truck was stencilled "radioactive", "death from within". Fuel
fillers had "dilithium only", and tailgates had "0 to 40 same day". My CP
truck had "front towards enemy" on the hood!
As a result he had the stencil cutter and his paint taken away and was
banished to the MRT team!
Cheers!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: [MV] RADIOACTIVE stenciled on S250
> I have a very nice S250. The radios were taken out, but the condition
> inside and out
> is almost like new. In fact, I dought if it ever saw any duty at all. I
> have had it for
> about 4 years now, and although I knew there was some stenciled letters
> on the back,
> they had been sprayed over by DRMO so I never really paid that much
> attention to it.
> I was more interested in setting it up as a camper.
>
> One day a complete stranger walks by and asks what it is, and I tell
> him it's a Radio
> Teletype, and then have to explain what that is. Then he asks me why
> there is this
> stenciled on letters 1 inch high that spells RADIOACTIVE? I snapped
> around and duh,
> there it is hiding under a few splotches of spray paint, but none the
> less quite ledgible.
>
> Any idea what was going on with this unit that they would put that
> on it?
>
> The irony of this whole thing is that Bezerkeley is one of those places
> that has declared
> themselves a nuclear free zone. I never did understand that either,
> since I never met a
> bomb that could read and obey instructions from the ground.
>
> So there is your Friday night puzzle.
>
> Bruce MVPA 23824 (Starting to glow in the dark)
>
>
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