I'm looking for an image of a MUTT driving down a dune - M60 gunner wearing a scarf over his face... The image appeared in War Machine magazine No 47 - any help?

Cheers!

What is a MUTT? Are you wanting info on the M151 series of vehicles?

Can't find the pic, but I think it was a 82nd Airborne vehicle during a Bright Star ex. in Egypt, it it helps a bit to locate that.

M151 Military Utility Tactical Truck
It doesn't seem as if the Mutt designation is very official ...
Diederik is looking for a specific photo of an M151.

This photo is not the one he is looking for:

even if it does indeed show a mutt going down a sand dune,
for instance there is no M60 gunner so it can not be the wanted image.
/ Robin

Definitely wrong picture. Theres no scarf!!!

The M151 series of vehicles never had an official name. The MUTT is an in house term from the builder. The term mutt I believe was used by the G503 crowd to disparage the M151. With 30yrs service I never heard it refered to as anything but a jeep or 1/4 ton. As a matter of fact, there is one setting in my garage right now. Most owners feel calling the M151 a mutt is a slur.

This is from the Tm and the proper nomenclature for the vehicle,

I second Salt6's comments on the M151. I had 64 M151A1's in my Smoke Generaor Company-164th CM (SG) in 1982-84, and I rode all over Germany in one in the 2/11th ACR. I never heard anyone refer to them as a "MUTT". They were always "1/4 tons", "M151's" or "Jeep's" (but "Jeep" was usually used by folks who didn't now them well). I never even saw the name "MUTT" until I saw the Academy kit on a hobby shop shelf in the late 90's. And then I was trying to figure out how it came to be called by that name. Not that it's a big deal though. Frankly, it could go places that the HMMWV couldn't. I was in Yakima and took my 1/4 ton down a "V" shaped ravine that only had about 6 feet wide clearance -- with a four foot drop beneath us. a HMMWV would never have made it. But it wasn't as good a gun or cargo platform as a HMMWV.
VR, Russ

Thanks for the clarification!

/ Robin

There are a M151, a M60 gunner wearing a scarf, and some sand for good measure in the picture below (even though it's probably not the one you're looking for...)

"82nd Airborne Division paratrooper with an M151A2 jeep, following a jump from a C-130 Hercules aircraft during Exercise Gallant Eagle, Ft. Irwin, CA, April 1982." :



H.P.

My last unit had some quarter ton trucks (my motor pool job was driving a 5t truck) but we called them Jeeps. I think Tamiya is more responsible for the MUTT name sticking around since I remember to this day that the model I was ALWAYS going to find in the PX was the Tamiya MUTT model.

There are a number of official documents that use the term. That may not be what users called it or how it was listed in the Federal Supply Catalog, but it is a legitimate acronym and not a contrivance of model companies or vehicle hobbyists.

KL

It isn't a legitimate acronym and is the contrivance of the manufacturer. Things are used in official documents all the time, that doesn't make them correct or official.