From: Ted Hils (tedhils@cyber-south.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 06:42:53 PST
ALL the CUCVs we've ever had here (200+) were straight 383 forest green
originally. Many were never camo'd at all and still are just green.
Ted Hils
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>
> From: "International Movie Services" <ims@telus.net>
> Date: 2004/03/31 Wed PM 01:11:55 PST
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: [MV] MISTAKE: Correction
>
> This is actually chance_wolf@shaw.ca on the work computer.
>
> I tried going from memory regarding when the US Army started painting
M151s
> the two different types of cam in answer to someone's question, and my
> memory...sucks. I just looked it up here at work, and here's what the
> manuals say on it all anyway:
>
> October 1964 TB 746-93-1 was in force apparently until 1975: Vehicles
are
> O.D.
> December 1975 TB 43-0147 "Color, Marking, and Camouflage Patterns:
Vehicles
> are Four Colour Camouflage
> October 1990 TB 43-0209 (superseded the 1976 edition of above): Vehicles
are
> NATO type Three Colour Camouflage
>
> Question though. Weren't the first HMMWVs and CUCVs delivered to the Army
in
> the Three Colour Cam? If that happened 1984-85, they should still
> technically have been using the Four Colour system (at least according to
> the above.) I've sanded down a fair number of CUCVs and HMMWVs, yet have
> never yet come across any that have been obvious Three Colour over Four
> Colour repaints.
>
> chance_wolf@shaw.ca
>
>
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