Troop seats ?

[Rellim4560]

Ok so I'm working on rebuilding my troops seats. One side came built and I'm finally getting around to building out the second side. I have a curious question i noticed on all the pictures that I see of troop seats and on the one completed side there is always two boards on the fold out section that are cut short. I was wondering what the reason is for this. I could not find anything in the TM's on it. Right now my boards are all 12' foot in length and wanted to know if it will hurt anything other then aesthetics.

 

[Motorcar]

When they are folded down it works as a grab handle to help pull up from the tailgate step, natural grab location. My old wood seats did not have the cutouts but my new fiberglass ones off an A3 had them.

 

[Rellim4560]

I gotcha thanks for the info.

 

[RodUSMC1962]

That is correct!