This - I know somebody with one - For all the headaches, I'd rather have a duece and a half.PawPaw wrote:You do not want a half-track. They're seriously expensive to maintain. A good idea, once, that turned out to be not so good an idea. It needs to be in a museum, somewhere, or parked out front of the VFW.
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HTRN
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blackeagle603
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Re: Half Track
That would be an epic parade vehicle. Would love to hang American Legion Post 303 banner on the side and load it up with the non-walking Post members.
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The one I know of, has been in the veterans day parade, complete with dummy machine gunsblackeagle603 wrote:That would be an epic parade vehicle. Would love to hang American Legion Post 303 banner on the side and load it up with the non-walking Post members.
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If I had the money to buy that, I would also have the real guns (even if they had to be semi auto versions). Firing pins removed for parade duty of course.HTRN wrote:The one I know of, has been in the veterans day parade, complete with dummy machine gunsblackeagle603 wrote:That would be an epic parade vehicle. Would love to hang American Legion Post 303 banner on the side and load it up with the non-walking Post members.
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MarkD
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Re: Half Track
A few years ago I went to an Independence Day parade at a nearby NJ town, there was a halftrack there with a machinegun firing blanks. Woke up anyone who was trying to sleep, I can tell you!
I can understand why a half track out be a maintenance pig, with the tracks, but why would a deuce-and-a-half be so much worse than any other truck?
I can understand why a half track out be a maintenance pig, with the tracks, but why would a deuce-and-a-half be so much worse than any other truck?
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Because lowest bidder, government intelligence, 24V electrical, and AMGeneral.
Anyone jonesing for a deuce and a half should just get a stakebed-tailed diesel F450. All the capability, and fifty times the reliability and functionality.
Anyone jonesing for a deuce and a half should just get a stakebed-tailed diesel F450. All the capability, and fifty times the reliability and functionality.
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On the other hand. An acquaintance of mine owns a 5-ton 6X6 (M939??) and during the Katrina debacle, he filled it with diesel and headed south as soon as the wind quit howling to check on relatives in Biloxi and area. He told me that the Guard was out in force and when he needed fuel, he'd simply find a Guard unit and they'd fill the truck for him. They figured that he was retired military, was doing relief work, and no one would say anything about them filling a military vehicle, where they couldn't really be in the business of giving fuel to all comers.Aesop wrote:Anyone jonesing for a deuce and a half should just get a stakebed-tailed diesel F450. All the capability, and fifty times the reliability and functionality.
I get what you're saying about the F450, but sometimes it pays to have a military look-alike. I'd really like to find an M1083 that I could get cheaply.
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Aesop
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"Past performance does not guarantee future results."
In the America we all grew up in, I'd do the same thing.
As things stand now, I see the next such exercise as a situation where they'll seize your mil-spec POV for government use "in an emergency", thus setting you afoot hundreds of miles from home.
When they start selling surplus MRAPs and M-113s at the corner used car lot to all comers, I will revise that opinion.
And given a world where only the police have the heavy vehicles, or one where 20 guys got together and bought their own platoon of M60 tanks and a refueler, I'd rather live in Option B.
In the America we all grew up in, I'd do the same thing.
As things stand now, I see the next such exercise as a situation where they'll seize your mil-spec POV for government use "in an emergency", thus setting you afoot hundreds of miles from home.
When they start selling surplus MRAPs and M-113s at the corner used car lot to all comers, I will revise that opinion.
And given a world where only the police have the heavy vehicles, or one where 20 guys got together and bought their own platoon of M60 tanks and a refueler, I'd rather live in Option B.
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When I was a young LT in Germany, our sister battalion (2-6 IN) had an operational half-track, kept in working order by a some of their unit mechanics during their spare time. (At least one of them had managed to stay in the unit for about 10 years by volunteering for consecutive overseas tours. Married to a German girl, of course, so he didn't care.)
They used it for change of command ceremonies and such.
That unit is now stationed at Ft. Bliss. I wonder if they got to bring their toy back stateside with them?
They used it for change of command ceremonies and such.
That unit is now stationed at Ft. Bliss. I wonder if they got to bring their toy back stateside with them?
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HTRN
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The Duece has two big advantages over the Ford - Rockwell axles and the ability to run Mich xzl tires with minimal mods for some truly awesome ground clearance.Aesop wrote: Anyone jonesing for a deuce and a half should just get a stakebed-tailed diesel F450. All the capability, and fifty times the reliability and functionality.
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt