From: R. A. Moir aka RAM (cyclopsram@starband.net)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 13:51:12 PST
We bought a lot of trees from Comrade in the Black Forest after Blackout
Maneuvers with our M139s in the 60's. The umpires in the war games always
gave us points for putting on our lights, but never said anything about the
trees....I was a Army Lumber Jack with a M139 combination feller, buncher,
skidder, harvester....hoorah...Then I made SGT and got a new M37B1....great
for the Ocktober fest runs... RAM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Everette" <194cbteng@pchnet.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:26
Subject: [MV] bridge transport trucks
>
> somewhere in my library I have instructions for launching these bridges -
> dates from Vietnam - from memory there were 27 - 5 ton (really upgraded to
> 7.5) 35 deuces some 3/4 and some 1/4 and either wrecker or wheeled crane,
> air compressor truck. I have forgotten how many men and officers in
> addition to drivers.
>
> This in addition to all the things you listed.
>
> I talked with a group of fellows who were in a bridge company in Vietnam
and
> they told me that once a bridge was launched and erected many times it was
> not picked up.
>
> They told me about loading bridge trucks with sand bags and backing them
> down road to look for mines. They would have three trucks so that wheels
> covered road, his words "not the best duty I ever had" - went on to say
> there were no casualties but did loose some trucks.
>
> I have an M139 that was in Bermuda and I know some of the men that were in
> the company that had the had them, and I met the fellow who drove my
truck -
> without seeing it he said for me to look in glove box door and stuck on
back
> of it were centers from "0" vinyl letters that he had stuck on door, "they
> were there". He said also that the roller on back of bed would not turn
for
> the make a motor pool the backed the trucks into palm trees and uprooted
> them and pushed them out of way. Roller on back of my truck just as he
said
> will not turn. He also asked had I noticed the "eyes" on front of hood,
> they had made them from vinyl letters and white paint.
>
>
>
>
> Everette
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R. A. Moir aka RAM" <cyclopsram@starband.net>
>
> There were equally as many M35s in the bridging companies as 5 tons...
One
> for each boat with a pole trailer, one for cooking, one for supplies from
> orderly room, several as specialized mechanical repair units and some as
> troop carriers when the combat engineers ran out of dump trucks with troop
> seats...
>
>
>
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