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Wait till you discover an old, burned out, rusty bedspring buried just beneath the surface. The discovery was I'd driven right over it, and it caught on a grease Zerk on the rear driveshaft, and rolled up just perfectly around said shaft, locking my M37 in place. All I had to remove it was a...

I've run my M54A1 all around the Yuma dunes with soft 14.00s and never had one pop open. It's not so much about PSI as how much flexion you see. 'Course a 5-ton is a might heavier than a deuce...

I run tubes in 14.00-20's on 20-bolt 10" tubeless wheels with no trouble. Have for years, got tired of fighting leaks. Those same wheels usually run a giant piece of rubber tubing inside, that holds the bead outward against the rim. I don't see why one couldn't use the same thing with a...

Permant shipboard-wide cameras.

I was not allowed to remove or copy any info from the library, unfortunately.

No, I'm not an accredited teacher per se. Doing GED courses under military auspices was outside the Arizona regulations, but the curriculum wasn't difficult for me to grasp. My two classes were 100% successful. Plus, having a wife with a PhD in English literature was a real benefit as she...

I taught GED courses to military dependents. Having the entire library with hundreds of TM's and white papers available before and after class was really enlightening in the MV data section.

From a personal point of view, the huge amount of automotive engineering that went into the 50's fleet of tacticals paid us taxpayers great dividends. Look how long they were in front-line service, compared to the last few years with many new designs that are being phased out without getting...

The late 40's/early 50's Test & Evaluation Command gave us heavy tacticals in several wheelbases, i.e. the tractor/dump, the standard cargo, the long wheelbase cargo/extended van in both the 2.5 & 5-ton series. This included the sealed 24V electrical systems with lots of commonality among...

I taught classes in the base library at the YPG back in the 70's. Access to many reports on tactical vehicle testing was available, and I was really into army trucks. I couldn't take any of the material out of the facility, unfortunately. Another thing I remembered was one report said tire...

Military proving ground testing back in the 50's found that in every case, super singles were superior to duals in off-road mobility. That is the reason there were SS 2.5 & 5-tons built with them, like the M34. In later years, most operations were highway routes, and duals were better handling...