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Stealing implied taking stuff for personal gain, and that was a no-no. "Reallocating" meant Uncle still owned it, it just wasn't where he originally intended it to be. :) Scrounger is a semi-official position in Marine units. They were the ones who could find, or talk someone into giving...

We Marines preferred the terminology "reallocating Government resources". :) And yes, we were pretty good at it. The Army always had really cool new gear, and we saw an inter-service BnFx as a great opportunity to reallocate as much of it as possible! Poncho liners were a particularly...

I agree with what Silverstate55 said, matches my observations. I saw my first M939 series trucks in 1984, and do not recall seeing any M35's after that time period (though the M109/M185 box trucks were around for a little while longer). That is also when the vehicles started switching over...

Here are a couple of pictures I took in March of the M109 in the museum on Camp Pendleton. This one has the markings up high on the box rear, which appears to have been most common, but I have also seen them with the markings down near the bottom of the box. Front bumper markings for the...

The picture below was borrowed from one of the many M35 pages on Olive Drab, actually shows a USMC M35 in Vietnam. It is possible that the source on there confused the M35A3 with all M35's perhaps. The A3 (and A4 in M109/M185 guise) were only used by the Army (to the best of my knowledge!!)...

Yes, the Marines used gun trucks, in Vietnam and Iraq. Cheers

Welcome aboard Jason, and Semper Fi! During my time (late-70's/80's) we had lots of M35's running around. Also their M109/M185/etc. kin. Most were painted in Merdc camo. If you are doing Merdc, the later 383 3-colour camo, or the 686 tan, the markings would be the same as for 5-tons...