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Article: Vietnam-era gun trucks hold special meaning for MTMCer.
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- Translog
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Whenever Paul Gardiner walks by the U.S. Fort Army Transportation Museum, Fort Eustis, Va., he gives it a special glance.
Among an array of trains, planes and vehicles parked outside the building is a Vietnam-Era gun truck. The "Eve of Destruction," is the last of some 300 to 400 trucks, upgraded with armor and heavy weapons, used to protect convoys during the Vietnam War.
Gardiner remembers the gun trucks well from when he was an Army captain in 1970 and 1971, leading the 24th Transportation Co., Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
"We had several gun trucks in the battalion," said Gardiner. "We'd request them when we needed them.
"They were a ...