Cucv in Iraq

[Csm Davis]

Just talked to a CWO4 that was in Iraq and drove a 1031 And deuce in the unit my 1028a2/1031 was in and he showed me where shrapnel from a mortar went through the truck and give me a little bit of the war history of the truck said truck had been back and forth from top to bottom of Iraq many times. Said the ony thing that I need to get get that I didn't know was missing is the gps location system.

 

[swbradley1]

Nice to have provenance on a vehicle.

Cool

 

[Matt Kahle]

what gps system?

 

[soldierman79]

what gps system?

Probably talking about the FBCB2 or Blue Force Tracker that is utilized in current Tactical Vehicles.

 

[Csm Davis]

Yeah think it was a BFT. If anyone has any parts for one post up pictures I might get one to put in the truck.

 

[BKubu]

Can you take pics of the damage? Perhaps, you posted them in another thread and I missed them. Thanks!

 

[Csm Davis]

No haven't taken any yet just found out today about the truck

 

[Mercunimog404]

A Cucv would never have a Bft in it. As they were fob vehicles, never leaving the wire.

 

[Csm Davis]

A Cucv would never have a Bft in it. As they were fob vehicles, never leaving the wire.

That's funny a CWO4 that I had never seen before sees my truck and tells me about it having shrapnel damage I have never noticed that is only visible on the inside, and I opened the door and see damage that looks just like he said it happened. So why would he lie and get the details of the inside of my truck right? Just because you didn't see something doesn't mean it didn't happen. Early in the war lots of things were used that were not as they are today.

 

[Mercunimog404]

Shrapnel damage can come from a rocket attack or mortar attack. Bfts weren't around in big numbers until late 07 time frame.

 

[Csm Davis]

Okay so may have been the earlier gps unit he said they sucked and yeah I know damage can and did happen in the fobs but why would he lie about driving these trucks and others that you probably have never seen in combat or even in Iraq at all?

 

[wb1895]

The FOB's were always getting hit by rockets and mortars (trust me I know). It is VERY possible that the CUCV got hit while sitting on the FOB. We lost several vehicles in the motor pool due to rockets mortars, Ect.

 

[Csm Davis]

Jesus why are you guys stuck on this?! I didn't come up with this crap out of my back side. Next you guys will be saying that you know for a fact the truck was never there.

 

[Csm Davis]

Fob never was even talked about but you guys know everything how many deuces and 809 series trucks or soft side hummv got shot up or damaged down range because we don't let them out of the fob?

 

[Csm Davis]

I tell you guys I think I will just quit posting, I am done, no more. Love that y'all know more about what happened than the man who was there.

 

[soldierman79]

Csm, to he!! with what the keyboard commandos think. Your CUCV has more character and war stories than a Government Liquidators going out of business sale.



I would like to check it out though. Got pics?

 

[Stonepicker1]

Well lets see here....back in 1990-91, Desert Storm. We took 4, M880 contact trucks and 6, CUCV's M1009's and 4, M1028's plus more equipment(M35A2's M818's ++++)
We Left the M880 dodge contact truck there in Iraq(battle loss) we brought back everything else, except our tents and camo.

Now in 2003 we took 6, M1031 contact trucks to Iraq. We drove our trucks from Saudi Arabia through Kuwait and stopped at FOB Spiecher near Tikrit in northern Iraq. That was a long trip.
Our contact trucks were outside the wire maybe 8 to 12 times that year on convoy support to Camp Doha and Arifjan.

We brought back all of our M1031 in April of 2004, but left two of our M816 wrecker in Arifjan(the wreckers were in bad shape)
A lot of units left there equipment overseas so other units could used them.

The picture's below are from 2003 in Iraq...

When I went back in 2009-2010. I saw a few CUCV's on the FOB only.

 

[Mercunimog404]

My point was, that truck never had a Bft installed in it. It may have been in a convoy in the very early days of the war. But not within the last 3/4 part of the war. Like maybe 2004 on they never left the FOB

 

[wb1895]

CSM Davis, I was trying to agree with you. If it came across as different than that I apologize. I was just trying to say that the CUCV could have been hit while on the FOB, not that it never went outside the wire.

And as far as older GPS goes, if it was early war, they were probably using the old PLGR.

 

[quickfarms]

I tell you guys I think I will just quit posting, I am done, no more. Love that y'all know more about what happened than the man who was there.

I feel your pain

This was a long engagement during which the military transitioned from desert storm equipment to modern equipment. Technology changed as much if not more than the equipment. Just because the manuals say it did not happen does not mean it did not happen. I hate guys that think the military blindly follows the book. In the end completing the mission is the goal and some branches and units are more skilled at adapting to complete the mission.