Navy deuce

[J8HN]

I was wondering if the Navy painted their Deuces gray? I' ve been looking for pics, but can't find any. Has anyone painted theirs gray?

 

[wsucougarx]

I've only seen green deuces and 5 tons from the Navy

 

[quickfarms]

The modern doctrine is for every service to paint there vehicles green, or tan in a desert environment. In the past the Air Force painted there vehicles blue and ground support equipment yellow. In the past the navy did paint there vehicles grey, I remember all of the navy truck were grey or yellow when I was growing up.

At some point in time the navy switched to white for non combat or on base vehicles. I am guessing that this happened in the 80's based on my personal memory

 

[swbradley1]

Ferro painted his 109 gray.

 

[FatBuddhaBoo]

I've seen a couple dueces painted grey, and had contemplated doing this to mine as well. However, I'm opting not to at the moment and just going with od green. But hey, its your deuce to do with what you like.

I do seem to recalling though only seeing green or camo deuces when I was active duty

 

[Ferroequinologist]

My wife painted her M109 gray, to honor my Navy service. I really didn't like it at first, but it has grown on me. It was a quick roller job a few years ago, we are discussing maybe blasting and painting it right.

 

[M813rc]

In the mid-70's there were some deuces on NAS Corpus Christi that were painted grey.

Cheers

 

[DUG]

The modern doctrine is for every service to paint there vehicles green, or tan in a desert environment. In the past the Air Force painted there vehicles blue and ground support equipment yellow. In the past the navy did paint there vehicles grey, I remember all of the navy truck were grey or yellow when I was growing up.

At some point in time the navy switched to white for non combat or on base vehicles. I am guessing that this happened in the 80's based on my personal memory

In 1992 the Navy switched their Ground Support Equipment from yellow to white. The reason was to tell which equipment was painted with lead based paint and which was not. When equipment came in for rework it was stripped down to bare metal and repainted white with a lead free paint. Gear that hasn't been through rework yet is still yellow, though there isn't much left.

Some old salts still care Support Equipment "Yellow Gear" to this day. I was only stationed in CA and HI but I never saw a grey deuce.

 

[Flyingvan911]

When I picked up my deuce at Fort Riley there was a grey Navy deuce. It had the SeaBee logo stenciled on the door. I thought I had a pic somewhere. I'll have to look.

 

[J8HN]

Thanks. I am strongly considering doing gray with Seabee emblems and also painting cargo cover gray to match.

 

[73m819]

In vn the SeeBees deuces were green