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Defense Reutilization Management Office .. The days of sealed bids and direct-buying at military bases and facilities everywhere.. Run by civilian gov't employees, instead of contracted private outfits

After we weren't able to direct-obtain from the DRMO's anymore, there was GL .. I had heard they got into trouble as well.. Trouble they caused for me is my catching their site people stealing items and parts from trucks after they were posted for sale.. Pictures would show certain items with...

sold all the M35a2's we had. but still one M35 gasser available in the yard ... Don't know how soon you want a M109 but in a couple years I think our 1970's M109A3 will be up for sale as one of the last items I am able to part with as I shut down the remainder of the business .. We bought it...

happened to me decades ago, bid on a M890 at FLW (Mo) just because it was going waaaay too cheap since the body and tires were like-new.. Expecting to get outbid, my max bid made the truck not quite worth its cost plus the cost of a 6-day round trip to go get it.. But at least I would be able...

Is that to say there definitely were M48A5's (not the AVLB's you mentioned) being fielded by active-duty armor units in Europe? Aside of active units, I recall several discussions in the early 1980s about what our state was going to do with the dozens of M48A5's our two Bn's allegedly kept...

At this time it has been confirmed that two active-duty armor battalions in Korea with the 2nd ID received M48A5's. They were the 1st and 2nd Bn's of the 72nd Armor.. Likely there were others sent to active duty units in europe and the middle-east as well.. I have made acquaintance with Andy...

It happens.. That lowboy stopped pretty quick I bet !! I was moving my own M750 a few years ago to a permanent spot, checked the lock braces on the folding landing legs with a 3-pound hammer, cranked it up and pulled ahead a little to get the kingpin clear enough to jack it up some more so it...

The pics below are not mine but are of my former BN ... Most of its tanks (@50 per BN) were stored at Ft Drum NY, others were supposedly stored combat-ready in W.Germany, and about 3 dozen were scattered around unit facilities and training areas in Vermont, per each Bn.. Wish I had gotten an...

Pic shot in 1986 // Here I have already "hit the pin" but still get out and get under to check things out visually before taking off .. At the time, I was working as a trainer and head of BN licensing, but occasionally still got away to do my old jobs with the fellas.. In the military...

Mack-powered (M52A1) with downswept exhaust .. Note the blackened rear fender .. I drew this truck for ammo hauls for a time in 1980... It was extremely smokey, fogged out everything at ground-level :LOL: M52A2 multifuel with downswept exhaust .. note blackened fender on this one too. ...

Finally got time to find the picture I mentioned in an above post .. As mentioned, had a column of Dusters blow by me on a tank trail decades ago , they seemed to be fairly quick buggers .. I managed to somehow snap a pic of one of them perfectly framed in the passenger window of my M52A1 as we...

some more personal fun from long ago ,, We got overrun and captured by these guys ,, 1980 This track ran outa fuel the night before, stranded almost 24 hours .. Were happy to see my ugly a** .. 1984 Chopping wood. (not quite). 1981 Not what you want to meet at 50mph with a...

GTUnit above has an excellent idea as listing it as a H1 .. I was a uShip carrier, as well as a shipper on there for some time .. As a carrier, I got tired of being undercut by brokers, who subsequently would win the bid and then days later fail to provide the shipper with a carrier, or a...

You have done an incredibly-faithful clone, much more intense than I ever had patience for... Instead of building an A1 clone, about 30 years ago I built what is dash-tagged an XM38A5... It has my old crusty trusty '75 CJ5 as the base, which I bought near-new.. Because I did a lot of long...

as davidb56 above says, Surplus Center has a lot of stuff.. I highly recommend them, some prices are "pennies on the dollar" on oddball automotive and industrial parts that can be used on projects limited only by your imagination .. They have good prices on most everything else as well. We have...

definitely a straight M62, continental R6602 gas engine, A/W boom .. The quick identifier on A/W booms is the location of the spare tire mount studs and lack of oil tank .. The next quick identifiers are the shape of the boom tip, specific layout of the cable hoist motor. and length of the...

Since you have switched from gas engine to multifuel in your M108, I want to confirm or disprove a comment made to me decades ago. I was told the gas and multifuel hoods within the M44-series deuces are different, but how?

not in the northeast