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Located at Camp Pendleton:
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What is this USMC trailer, and it's use?
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gimpyrobb
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Its an m101/m116 with some crap bolted to it.
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Yup, M116A3
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I worked on something very similar here in Germany. The boxes held mast section tubes, and the reels held the cables for the antennas that were mounted on top of the masts. The mast base and assorted crap were mounted in the middle. The base was erected by hand, and staked down. The tubes were inserted into the base piece, and ratcheted up, until there was room for the next tube. Every so often there was a "collar" attached to a tube mast section, for guy wires to keep the whole thing in the air without it falling on our heads.
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Looks to me like a makeshift fire pumper or hose reel trailer for extending the hose reach for a pumper truck.
Camp Pendleton has some very remote buildings, so that would be my estimated guess.
The reel on the back looks like a hose reel, but if not for firehose then some sort of hose. Doesn't look big enough to be a field tender for equipment, that and it doesn't have any tanks for fluids, so again my guess would be for some sort of fire use
Camp Pendleton has some very remote buildings, so that would be my estimated guess.
The reel on the back looks like a hose reel, but if not for firehose then some sort of hose. Doesn't look big enough to be a field tender for equipment, that and it doesn't have any tanks for fluids, so again my guess would be for some sort of fire use
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If you can give me the information off all the data plates, I can look it up. There should be data plates for the trailer, M116A3, and another for what ever the unit became after melding the trailer and the "special" added equipment.
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Of course it's a long way away.
I could use that trailer just the way it's setup!
I could use that trailer just the way it's setup!
1% (or less) chance. Reel too small to be useful for any fire hose. Go with explanation from Guy.
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Just an observation since 1" and 1 1/2" canvas hose reels look exactly like this, but I could be wrong.
http://www.nationalfirefighter.com/store/p/3534-Warehouse-Fire-Hose-Reel.aspx
No worries if it isn't a fire trailer, just a guess from me....
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Well it has the hat channel that gensets usually mount to and those spools on the front are used for cable. I'm not sure what the long boxes would contain, but I guess masts could work.
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Got to be another data plate someplace on the trailer. This data plate is only for the trailer chassis. Can tell you that the trailer chassis cost 4,985.00 new. So take a look around the trailer again.
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Pictures of inside the boxes show something that looks like antenna masts would would be stacked on.
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No other data plates are visible/legible.
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I had one like it and was for an antenna, there had been a generator on it that was removed before being surplussed mounted on the hat channels like Gimp said. All I have left of it are those channels and the brackets for the reels.
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Do You Have The Dataplate? Now I am intrested in just what its all about. Like I said, I worked on something like this here in germany, at the 173rd ABN, when they were in Bamberg. With a NSN I can take a closer look see at it.
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No plate, mine came with 2 other USMC generator trailers in one lot and only had M116A3 plates on them except this other aluminum decked one with a "marcorsyscom" plate which I posted back then (20120) that never got a reply.
It had 6 reel holders but 2 that were on the front I removed before picture was taken. 
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?90324-Usmc-m116a3-marcorsyscom
It had 6 reel holders but 2 that were on the front I removed before picture was taken. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?90324-Usmc-m116a3-marcorsyscom
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I looked up that part number, and got nothing. Interesting.
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The USMC had this trailer most recently assigned to MCTSSA at Camp Pendleton, per that Mxxxxx number seen in the photo.
MCTSSA provides C4 support (command, control, computer, communications), so the above comments about antenna masts is probably correct.
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You guys are all great! THANKS for the info and comments
-Ken
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