From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 19:37:47 PDT
Saw Mogs at Camp Atterbury last weekend......they were being washed at the
coolest tank washing facility I have ever seen.
Mogs had a front loader and rear backhoe......looked pretty silly...kinda
top heavy, but I guess they get around well.....They had several and they
looked new. They were painted CARC-three color woodland.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] hummer, H2 number two only in design age
> 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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