Ghost00TJ
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Howdy from me –Larry aka Sergeant Ghost in my former life, now Larry, perminatly stationed just outside Ft. Leonard Wood. I’m retired Army as of 2008 and the wife is Andrea. I traveled around the world four times and met a German lady in Missouri, go figure. We are gearing up to bid on a liquidation site (GL) for a 5ton M923, eventually we will win one or something else. So I guess I am not a real Steel Soldier yet until I own the correct vehicle.
The wife and I are big Jeep fans and love to "camp" in our truck camper while out trail riding certainly not roughing it. With a camper and towing two jeeps we think it would be cool to have a 5ton tow rig with a camper built on the back, expand-o-van would be cool.
What brings us here is a suggestion from another Military Jeeper member so I registered here to increase my education level. I feel that Steel Soldiers members are as addicted to OD green as Jeep addicts are to Jeeps.
In the Service (Combat Engineer 12B) I drove many wheeled vehicles and some tracked so at one time I was familiar with a couple 900 series trucks and CEV, AVLB and a few smaller. My first ride was a M51A2 dump with troop seats (our squad vehicle) she wasn’t fast but we had fun with them just the same. The Army was having funding and drawdown issues so we had to wrench on our own stuff and used a lot of bailing wire and 100mph tape lol. Then we got a couple M929’s and M998’s around 1989 in Ft. Polk, LA- we thought they were like Cadillac’s.
The wife and I are big Jeep fans and love to "camp" in our truck camper while out trail riding certainly not roughing it. With a camper and towing two jeeps we think it would be cool to have a 5ton tow rig with a camper built on the back, expand-o-van would be cool.
What brings us here is a suggestion from another Military Jeeper member so I registered here to increase my education level. I feel that Steel Soldiers members are as addicted to OD green as Jeep addicts are to Jeeps.
In the Service (Combat Engineer 12B) I drove many wheeled vehicles and some tracked so at one time I was familiar with a couple 900 series trucks and CEV, AVLB and a few smaller. My first ride was a M51A2 dump with troop seats (our squad vehicle) she wasn’t fast but we had fun with them just the same. The Army was having funding and drawdown issues so we had to wrench on our own stuff and used a lot of bailing wire and 100mph tape lol. Then we got a couple M929’s and M998’s around 1989 in Ft. Polk, LA- we thought they were like Cadillac’s.
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