msgjd
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My M109A3 has delineator reflectors on its mudflaps .. It's last duty was a stateside guard unit for at least five years according to paperwork found in the truck.. Was the truck in Europe, shipped back, the reflectors never removed by the final unit? .. Anyones guess is as good as another .. Saw a few other 6x6's with delineators in the stateside GL yard on base when i went to pick up this one and two other trucks in 2008 therabouts.. But yes I agree it's not common here in the States..Yes! We don't have those stateside.
I can tell you this particular truck's final unit traveled very-long stretches of I-87 , I-90, and a section of I-81, at least 12 hours one-way in a deuce, in order to get to Ft Drum for their AT.. That is not only where the truck was disposed of, but there were unit convoy & driver assignment lists in the truck indicating AT periods there.. This also was a unit maint truck, thus it could've been running roads alone all by itself between in-state facilities , there's lots of traffic and interstate around the area where this unit was based.. So, who knows. There's is also the possibility (other than having come from Germany), the unit may have put the delineators on for extra protection due to their AO
I can also tell you I appreciated them being there late one night when I had to make a service call with it on a road frequented by speeding log trucks and canadian haulers coming up fast on my butt
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