Good Bad Ugly Gun Truck - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

poppop · 01-25-2009, 14:24

Is there anyone out there that remembers or served around the Good Bad Ugly truck?? I have a friend that was in the Unit and he is interested in it. One of his story's is he and a friend that served on the truck drove onto a well populated helicopter field and removed one of its machine guns from a bird parked on the field. This gun was then mounted on the Good Bad Ugly.

KaiserM109 · 01-25-2009, 14:42

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Originally Posted by poppop

... and removed one of its machine guns from a bird parked on the field. This gun was then mounted on the Good Bad Ugly.

I can't tell you anything about the Good Bad Ugly, but I can tell you a similar story. I served with 15th Combat Engr. Bn, 9th Infantry Division in 1968. We (9th ID) were the first (and only) unit to hold ground south of Saigon and the 15th was in the vanguard to Dong Tam.

Being combat engineers, we had to supply our own security and we had 4 M113 APCs that had napalm cannons identical to the ones the Navy had on river boats, instead of M2 50s. It could shoot a stream of napalm the size of my thumb 300 meters for 30 seconds. Our tracks were often called in to assist other ground units. In July one was called in to secure the crash site of a Cobra gunship and destroy it. They salvaged the minigun and 40mm grenade launcher from the nose turret. They kept the launcher and mounted it on the back of an M151 with a hand crank in place of the servo motor.

jimk · 01-26-2009, 00:31

SS Member V-100 Commando (Jeff) recently posted this V-100 truck picture w/details. There's a second picture on page 2.

V-100 Crew Member Vietnam 71-72

A google search turned up the second and third pictures from this interesting site(use link for picture details, gun truck history, and other trucks)

http://134.198.33.115/sims1.htm

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poppop · 01-26-2009, 14:10

The second and third pictures are the one I am interested in. I had found those on the inter-net last week and showed them to my friend. He is really interested in finding anyone that was there at the same time he was which I think was 67 and 68. He also is interested in attending the next gathering of the gun trucks. Will it be in Tenn. again??

Srjeeper · 01-27-2009, 09:36

poppop,

Check http://guntrucks.multiply.com/

This is the new location for the MSN Guntrucks site and there's info in there on the 09 Gathering in Tenn..

You'll probably find more info and people there that can help your friend out in his search.

Also look in http://grambo.us/atav/default.html

Good luck and Happy Hunting

poppop · 01-31-2009, 13:10

Thanks jeeper, I had a hip replaced on the 27th and am just checking back in. I will check this sites out.

Driver523 · 02-08-2009, 22:19

The next Gathering will be Aug. 4th through the 8th 2009 in Pigeon Forge Tn.---everyone is welcome, if you have a MV bring it to---If you have any other Questions just email me-- Driver523rd@aol.com Driver