There sure were a lot of strange military vehicles
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There sure were a lot of strange military vehicles
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M151 ¼-ton 4×4 utility. Not the most prettiest of Jeeps.
ReplyDeleteM151 1/4 ton. Designed by Ford, later contracted to AM General & Kaiser...Unibody design, used 1968-1999.
ReplyDeleteM151 MUTT
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I was in the army in the mid sixties. The Mutt's handling was so bad that it was a punishable offense to them drive over (best I remember) 35 mph.
ReplyDeleteRollover special. The independent suspension made it very easy to roll these at 'high' speeds. The fact that they were never fitted with roll over protection is also a sign of the times. When I was stationed in Germany we had a couple of guys killed when they were on an icy road towing a trailer in an M151 and got bumped from behind by another vehicle, which launched them off the autobahn. They landed upside down in the ditch. Other than the collapsed canvas top and the crushed windshield there was nothing wrong with the 151-other than the two dead G.I.'s inside. On the lighter side, one of my supervisors was a parachute rigger for cargo planes. For practice they often dropped a palletized 151. On the news that they weren't going to be using the 151 any more they decided to give it a good send off. The main chute was rigged as always but they'd wrapped a cord around it, so that the extraction chute would pull the pallet out of the plane, but the main would just be a streamer, causing this worn out jeep to free fall 200 feet nose first. Vehicle ops came out and gathered up the splattered remains onto a flatbed, which was parked at the entrance to the base with a large sign that said 'slow down, speed kills.'
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