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They were M48 hulls, modified to AVLB's. I talked to the 9th Eng Bn maint. CWO and he said they were the last M48 AVLB's in Germany, and that they were being sent back to the states for disposal. The unit had just came back from a deployment, and was getting ready to move to Graf. The Germans...
We had M48's here in Germany, and the last one were bridge layers. The last two, left country, (I think they left, or that is what I was told) from Schweinfurt, 9th Engineer Battalion, about 2009 or 2010. I was working there as a contractor, when they moved the two M48's in maintenance bays. The...
We had M48's here in Germany, and the last one were bridge layers. The last two, left country, (I think they left, or that is what I was told) from Schweinfurt, 9th Engineer Battalion, about 2009 or 2010. I was working there as a contractor, when they moved the two M48's in maintenance bays. The...
The three thugs who took it worked for me. We were supposed to be locked down for an upcoming FTX. Thug #1, told the gate guard "We will be right back, and bring you a case too"! The Gasthaus down below was a 6-7 min drive. 6 hours later, they cam back to our site towing the jeep with a 1954...
Stolen jeep, returned slightly bent. C-3/7 ADA, 1978, TAC Site Germany
The entire unit walked by this in the morning, and no one dared to look to the left, and look at it. It might as well have been parked in L.A. Well, until Top and the CO walked by, anyways.
The M48A5's lived on here in Germany, becoming AVLB's. When I stopped contracting, in 2010, there was still several in Schweinfurt, at the, (I think) 10th Engineers. They were being prepared for transport to K-Town, for "Disposition".
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