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Is that V-100 Commando still around Here?---Jeff Houghton posted this video over on the gun truck sight---It says Long Binh---But at 48 seconds you'll see the Ace and Born Loser, and you may even see someone you may know on those Vs------ at Camp Evans--71...
Here is a photo I just copied off the Vietnam gun truck site, It was posted by Edd Pavlic, I believe it was taken outside the MP barracks in Phu Tai------I can't read the names cept there is that Proud Mary II again-------------Driver
Someone ask if any of the units had a "theme"---I believe there was a MP unit around the Qui Nhon area that had super heros on the front for graphics, but just what unit it was I don't know-----Driver
Madsam--I know I can click on the URL you posted but where is that under the forum?----I'd kinda like to show what I have of what it was like for transportation during Lam Son 719 Operation Dewey Canyon---and I've been posting under VietNam gun trucks and gun trucks of Iraq---------Driver
Damn---I couldn't believe my eyes--On page 3 of this thread lilreddodge posted about is dad having a V named Proud Mary and selling it and HellonwheelsV100 said he was now the owner of Proud Mary--now I can't really tell if it was Proud Mary II er not or see the unit but I just wonder if maybe...
Gettin to be slim pickins in the photo dept. I got near on 12,000 photos but not alot on Vs, ---these two came from the museum at Fort Eustis---The last (not Capt. America) is from check point 88 up at Pleiku VN----I'm afraid this is about it but still lookin-----sorry----Driver
Just going through my photos to see what I have and posting as I find something----this one is from the album of Larry Lofts--- Looks like it says The Max --------Driver
I can't remember the guys last name that I got this photo from but his first name was Dave, When I was in Nam I never seen a V on a cargo truck as a gun box (like some APCs were used) but when I seen this picture I noticed that it looks like just that and he confirmed the same thing--he thought...
Here's Flash--Ole flash was laying along side the road one day on its side after hitting a mine--we seen her on the return trip from Tuy Hoa--years later a guy sent me the photo of it being loaded (or unloaded) on a flat bed---and a pic of it in better times----Driver
V-100 Commando--That avatar of yours is one of Sammy Seays photos, He was twin gunner of the Ace of Spades and has since rebuilt it as a replica, that day he told me you were having some trouble with Catch 22 and they were parked right in front of you guys--he went back got up on it and offered...
V-100 Commando--just by chance you wouldn't have been having trouble with that V at the Bob Hope show in 71 would you? and just maybe the gun truck Ace of Spades was parked in front of you, then the other gun truck at the show was Uncle Meat?-------Driver
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