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Any pictures of the markings? Cheers

That's a nice looking Humvee, DREDnot! (y) Marine tactical vehicles, and the troops who operate them, routinely deploy on various types of Navy landing ships so most have the markings on them. Cheers

Happy to help! I try to keep up with the Marine markings, since they can be ambiguous. ;) I neglected to mention that on your vehicle C/C E would be a downgrade (thus painted out) of its previous higher rating. Somewhere on your vehicle you should have a UIC code, an M followed by five...

My older son was a Marine combat engineer/truck driver and told me how to read these. They are called Embarkation Codes, and are painted near the front passenger corner of all Marine tactical vehicles and trailers. C/C is Condition Code. The only two I know for sure are A is new, F is...

Regardless of how much I like all the vehicles this month, I have to stick with loyalty to my friend and vote for Mkcoen's Champ. While doing so, I will mention that the Champ is probably the quietest military vehicle I've been around, you can't hear the engine running even standing right next...

Look up TB 43-0209 dated from 1990 in the Manuals section of the TM forum. Paint patterns from that manual for the M923/M925 attached here. 1 is Black 2 is Green 3 is Brown Cheers

I agree on the smaller wheel making it tough to steer. I babysat an M109 on 395s for a couple of years, it was a pain to steer at very low speed, even with the full sized wheel. Cheers

The seat cushion top is 15" from the floor level. I have one box seat in my M109. Many years ago, I bought an M185 from Ft Sam with that box seat in it. Halfway through the 110 mile drive home, I was in so much back pain from that %$#^ seat I was ready to abandon the truck on the side of the...

T13 armoured car Cheers

Well, I'm still impressed. ;) I never thought highly of that retention method for the handle, though with the leg in the stowed position it probably borders on almost adequate. The potential for it taking an unauthorized walk with whomever might choose to pull that pin is another...

Your estimates were pretty close! Attached are the actual measurements. I neglected to add to the picture the measurement of the slots on the fixed side, they are 1/2" deep x 1/4" wide. What is, I imagine, obvious is that the 'hand' part of the handle is pipe that rotates around a fixed...

Here is the original handle that came with my M116A3 based HSTRU trailer. They are pretty simple, and would be easy to replicate, I think. I can measure it up for you later today (a frog strangling rain was beginning as I headed back to the house with the pictures!) Cheers Cheers

Msgjd and Fasttruck, since you seem to have a problem with that conversion from M54 to M813, ask David Doyle about it, since he is who I got my information from. I don't think you will find many people who will dispute that he is an authority on military vehicles, and he has done the research...

Brent Mullins just cancelled his event at the Museum of the American GI. :( That word is direct from him, their website is not yet updated. Muster Day on Camp Mabry is "postponed until later in the year, date to be determined". Cheers

It is, though you may get skunked! The Air Force only come through during certain phases of their training syllabus, and at unpredictable times. A friend into photography got buzzed out here one day, was very excited and came back with all his gear. We hung around for several hours, but the...

My farm lies directly under an Air Force low-level navigation route, and I have the top of a hill, so I get the trainers out of Randolph AFB regularly coming over my place at around 200' (low enough that I can read their numbers, smell the exhaust and sometimes get waved at by the T-6 pilots)...

On my old '68 Chevy 4x4 the front turn signals used to come on when the brakes were used, found that the wiring had come loose underneath and was touching the muffler, which melted the insulation off and caused a short. New wire that didn't touch the muffler, and all worked as it should...