From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 08:43:19 PDT
At 11:09 AM -0400 10/1/02, Steve Grammont wrote:
>
>Small numbers of special purpose Mogs have been used by several branches
>of the US military for years now. For example, the USAF (or Air National
>Guard, I don't know for sure) uses the Mog with snowblower to clear
>runways. I recently saw one at a base a couple of hours drive from me in
>fact. I have also seen Army engineers using the backhoe Mog on a job
>they did in my home town (great work too!). These are all older Mogs
>and, if I have the numbers right, are based on the 404 model.
While I understand the reason for using the Unimog, why doesn't the
US military use it more than as a specialized tractor? It would have
filled some of the requirements for FMTV admirably and had parts
availability the world over.
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