From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Dec 26 2003 - 10:00:21 PST
At 12:26 PM -0500 12/26/03, Carter Ledbetter wrote:
>Yep, the US Army is finally learning from
>others. We adopted the german army style cargo
>covers; rubberized fabric w/ camo directly
>printed on it. They have been in the system for
>deuces and 5 ton trucks for about 5 years or
>so...
>
>The only down side is the coloring... obviously,
>they aren't an ideal solution for vehicles
>deployed to places like Iraq, Afghanistan and
>any place else where the vehicles are shot in
>sand colors. The manufacturer does offer
>appropriately colored covers for those areas,
>but they tend to be unavailable on a regular
>basis.
It would seem that the desert environments
wouldn't really need the rubberized fabric to
keep out the rain as there isn't very much.
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