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M1008 Deployment History

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Hi, is it possible to find out the deployment history of my M1008.
If so how do I go about that!

Make & Model: CD-30903
Registration Number: 533919
Stock Number: 2320-01-123-6827
Thanks,
Brendon Mc
 

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Hi, is it possible to find out the deployment history of my M1008.
If so how do I go about that!

Make & Model: CD-30903
Registration Number: 533919
Stock Number: 2320-01-123-6827
Thanks,
Brendon Mc
Your asking the million dollar question.
Anyone who owns a MV has asked that very same question.

The answer is no (with VERY few exceptions). [exception example----A cucv spending its entire life in a cave in Norway].

Once the military is done with these, they purge all documentation from their computer system.
Some guys are lucky and find paperwork in the truck that gives them a hint or snapshot of past life but not the whole picture.
Those are few and far between.

If you have a bumper number still readable,
then you can at least know which unit had it last.

Unless you have a time machine, you will never know the entire history.
 

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The registration number would indicate that it may be a USMC truck, so the VIN info thread will probably be no help in finding where it came from. Check behind the seat for a pioneer tool rack, or at least the holes where one was once bolted.
 

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The registration number and the pioneer tool rack indicates it is a former USMC truck.

I believe, that makes it even harder to establish what the last unit was that used it.
 

NZ M1008

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Dam!
It would be interesting to know where at came from and how it ended up here in New Zealand...
I appreciate your time.
Regards
Brendon
 

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Murph, you missed this earlier in the thread:

The registration number would indicate that it may be a USMC truck, so the VIN info thread will probably be no help in finding where it came from. Check behind the seat for a pioneer tool rack, or at least the holes where one was once bolted.

I'd love to know where mine has been, but I guess I'll just have to assume that the mud in my alternators was jen-yoo-wine Iraqi mud, and leave it at that.


(It's probably from a mud pit somewhere in Georgia. :mrgreen:)
 

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At the most, you will only get snapshots of its past service/unit history.

With the exception(s) already noted in this thread, you will NEVER know its full life history.
 
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