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TB 43-0209 - Color, Marking and Camouflage Painting of Military Vehicles, Construction Equipment and Materials Handling Equipment dated 31 October 1990, Section III – Identification Markings, paragraph 9 – Unit Identification, sub-paragraph n – Typical Examples, has the following example for...

I have always loved the M3 and M5 Stuart tanks, especially the early M3's with their five .30 cal machineguns. Does anyone beside me remember a comic book printed in the 60's , I think called G.I. Combat, which featured a Stuart tank haunted by the ghost of J.E.B. Stuart? I wish I had saved all...

I got the same console from JC Whitney years ago. I don't think they carry it any more. It has the coin holder and sunglasses holder on the front and passenger cupholders in the rear. I put it in my 95 Impala SS. The stock console was too narrow and could not be used as an armrest. This console...

Did it myself once. Was in northern Alabama once in my M1008. Not paying attention after too many hours on the road and got way low on fuel. Started looking for a gas station and the first three I came to were out of diesel. Some kind of shortage in the area. Spotted a Kwiki-Mart type...

I never liked the ACU uniform or the ACU pattern. The jacket was too short. Didn’t like the collar. All of the Velcro was a pain. Didn’t like the location of the rank. Officers didn’t wear their Branch on it. The pattern wasn’t camouflage. When the uniform first came out, soldiers we sent to...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and good tank country is a sight to behold.

When the requirement to add the CONUS Convoy markers came out, an article appeared in PM magazine listing the National Stock Number for red reflective tape and for rolls of magnetic tape. It is similar to what refrigerator magnets are made from. You put the red tape on the magnetic tape. This...

TB 43-0209, page 4, figure 3 shows the unit markings for the Gamma Goat below the channel. This TB is available on the Steel Soldiers website under the Resources tab. Click on Technicial Manuals. It's on the third page of manuals. I believe fuel can tops were painted yellow if they carried...

Contact your local construction equipment rental place, one that rents Bobcats. Our local Bobcat dealer rents double axle trailers that will take 8,000 pounds. I used one to move my parts M1009.

My battery/generator gauge needle sticks. I tap it once to free it up and works fine.

My M1008 was a former Marine vehicle and had the standard pioneer tool rack installed behind the seat. Having pioneer tools on hand could make the difference between being stuck way out no where in a vehicle without a radio and being able to perfrom self recovery. The Marines figured this out...

The last time I was at Camp Atterbury, IN, they had a dozen of these recovery vehicles sitting on the LAW/AT-4 Subcaliber Range as hard targets. It's so sad that they cannot be sold to the public and have to sit and rust on the range until they are eventually dragged to the Air Combat Range and...

My understanding is that depleted uranium (DU) cannot be fired in the US without the permission of the Atomic Energy Commision due to their radioactive nature. Most M1 tankers had never fired a service (Combat) round until the were deployed for Desert Storm or Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF)...

I’m not in the loop like I used to be, so this is the first I’ve heard of the Patton Museum moving. Really, really sorry to see it go. The first time I visited the museum was in the early sixties when it was located in an old, wooden, WWII warehouse building on Old Ironsides Ave. The building...

Should have added that when we picked up our brand new, M1008's and M1009's in 1985, every vehicle had the brackets for the M8 alarm system. Most were removed because units only had one alarm system authorized per company or platoon. We removed the floor bracket becaused it messed up your...