Jason--I don't know about gun trucks with the 1st Cav during that time or even gun trucks during Desert Storm, I did some work later on for OIF with Livermore Labs and helped in the design of the Livermore gun box or Hunter gun box and have posted photos of that box under the Iraq gun truck thread, as far as what model truck would be ok I used to think these things should be as historically correct as one could do, but I have since thought that most don't really know all the details of just what these trucks were like, I now think that building a historically correct truck is a good deal but that anything a person builds is truly a great compliment to any and all gun truckers and helps preserve the history of those soldiers and vehicles, so for me I'd say go for anything you can build or do, at the begining of OIF the gun trucks had been about all but forgotten but because of what you guys are doing building these trucks our soldiers will not be without something of these sorts again, I believe even the MRAPs have their beginings with what the troops did with their trucks and steel plate-------go for it my friend------------Driver