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Yep, when I was in the air wing we didn't have much in the way of tactical vehicles, lots of shiny green ones though. Seems the Chevy CUCVs were all camo though when they came on board. I imagine it depends a lot on where you were too, different bases do different stuff. My early days I was...

First of all, I am not professing to be an expert, I have an interest in vehicle markings and I am just sharing what I have gathered. The information I give is based on notes and memory from when I was active in the Marines from the late ‘70s to the late ‘80s, and looking at as many photos (and...

On Camp Pendleton during that same time period all of our 880 series (and our M715/725s that were still running around!) had MERDEC camo on them.

Here are a couple of M813 examples, but the markings are reasonably consistent for other vehicle types. The bumper USMC is almost always on the drivers side, front and rear, the vehicle id on the passenger side. The rear M numbers, which seem to be unit applied, wanders all over the back if...

The NG07WR is definitely the Army registration, not a Marine number. Marine vehicles also have a unit id # that will be an M followed by 5 numerals (eg, on my truck M21640). This is usually stenciled on the outside of the doors (or, lacking doors, on the side) and somewhere near the center on...

Generally the hood number matches the data plate number, Marine trucks get 6 digit id #s. If the truck was not an original USMC contract (we got quite a few used trucks from the Army) the numbers will be different, and then I'm not sure how the hood number would be determined. If anyone does...