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I have a CDL and consider myself a "closet trucker." I've always admired big-rigs. I don't know as much as I'd like to, but I believe what your saying about the Freightliner. I drove the one in my avatar when my truck (an A1) was down. The ONLY think I liked about it was the air conditioning...

The 915 is the "road' tractor. They were made by AM General. The 915A2 and A3 are Freightliners. They just took this one bob-tail and made a gun-truck out of it. It was early OIF. They were faster than a 5-ton tractor and do not have a front driving axle. Again, primarily a asphalt loving...

Same truck?????? I remember the little plywood "fenders" that didn't hold my weight one time when I had to climb into it. And the door! And NAPA mud flaps!! I wasn't assigned to it, but it was assigned to my platoon. One or both of ours was passed down to us from a unit from South Dakota in...

Yep. I went home on 2 weeks R&R in June '04, (got married), and when I got back, my truck had been taken down into Kuwait and was up-armored. It now had 1/4" sheet steel on the doors and just below the cab. It wasn't much, but it made us feel a little better about smaller IEDs. We started...

That was something that the maintenance guys in our Company built pretty quick. When we first got there in February 04, there was no "armor" of any kind on any of our trucks. (Notice the truck skin has nothing additional). And by-the-way, that's plywood all the way at the top. That was just...

From the 1487th TC. Just south of Baghdad, early 2004.