From: Mr. Bones (mrbones@ixks.com)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 23:14:58 PDT
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Zehr <jeeperjim@cox-internet.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: [MV] navy part
> Hello,
> I was looking at a Navy M1009 on GL tonight.
I am not certain, without a closer examination of this truck, but I am
skeptical that it is a M1009, If it is, it has been heavily bastardized,
because it is missing many of the requisite parts they were supplied with.
Front and rear tow hooks, blackout lights and switch, and proper bumpers to
accomodate the previous parts, to start with. It also has civvy hubcaps, and
no grille guard or slave receptacle, nor the cutouts in the grille where the
blackout headlight and slave receptacle would have been.
> It has a unique hitch on it for heavy pulling. Does anyone know what the
TM
> number would be for the Navy parts books or possibly the NSN or P/N for
this
> hitch?
The hitch looks like a heavy duty ClassIII or possibly class IV type hitch
with the pintle mount fabricated onto it, nice setup actually.Wish I could
close to it with a digital camera and a tape measure.
The whole thing smacks totally of the Seabees, which I was in for eight
years. We commonly got junk trucks from the DRMS on bases and made our
vehicles out of several. It is entirely possible that it was aquired in this
or some other cumshaw fashion that was field expedient. It certainly
wouldn't be the first time I saw that happen in the Big Green Machine :-) We
had a small but nice fleet of "requisitioned" Mercedes diesel trucks in
Saudi during Desert Storm, after the flyboys caught a column of them on the
road just north of us. It took about three or four wrecks to make one good
truck, and when they were put into service a few days after, they were
complete with sand paint, Seabee emblem stencilled on the doors, and
"numbers" on them.Also a few they were able to make the ACs work in, that
made for some happy EOs (Equipment Operators)
Semper Gumby, as our Marine brothers say.
Another thought: The "M1009" also could have been adapted or militarized by
a Navy Reserve unit, especially considering the budget stuff in this day and
age. In any case, Caveat Emptor...
T.Bones Morris
K.D. Hamilton Jones
86 M1009 "Precious"
86 M1009 "Princess"
43 WLA project
> I do have the Army/Marine versions.
> Thanks,
> Jim
> jeeperjim@cox-internet.com
>
>
>
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