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Need help Id-ing a Desert Storm (?) M998
yeahwiggie
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Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 09:56 PM UTC
I found this M998 while searching for suitable vehicles during Desert Storm and the colours & markings intrigue me.
Can anyone help identifying this vehicle? Unit, area of operations and what not?
Thanks!!

Frenchy
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Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 11:13 PM UTC
Here's the caption I've found for this one :

"Marines man a BGM-71 Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided (TOW) missile system mounted atop an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) during Exercise Eager Mace 92-1, the first major U.S./Kuwait combined service exercise since the end of Operation Desert Storm"

from https://nara.getarchive.net/media/marines-man-a-bgm-71-tube-launched-optically-tracked-wire-guided-tow-missile-f6ec0a

Hi-Res version :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edoug/2965234977/sizes/k/

H.P.
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Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 11:23 PM UTC
With those doors I'd say it's an M1046 (Tamiya makes one).

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marcb
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Posted: Monday, May 25, 2020 - 12:11 AM UTC
USMC Humvees seem to have carried less markings than Army ones.
Here are some pics.




Khafji

yeahwiggie
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Posted: Monday, May 25, 2020 - 12:23 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Here's the caption I've found for this one :

"Marines man a BGM-71 Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided (TOW) missile system mounted atop an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) during Exercise Eager Mace 92-1, the first major U.S./Kuwait combined service exercise since the end of Operation Desert Storm"

from https://nara.getarchive.net/media/marines-man-a-bgm-71-tube-launched-optically-tracked-wire-guided-tow-missile-f6ec0a

Hi-Res version :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edoug/2965234977/sizes/k/

H.P.


Thanks!
Unfortunately that places it out of the timeframe. Too bad. Liked the camo and markings, which make for a more interesting display.
yeahwiggie
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Posted: Monday, May 25, 2020 - 12:26 AM UTC
But I did find some others!

Command Sgt. Maj. Robert G. Nichols, now retired, deployed to the Middle East with 1st Brigade in 1990. Nichols played a major role in the largest air assault in history that secured Forward Operating Base Cobra during Operation Desert Storm, Feb. 24... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)

Looks to have some form of camo. Mud??


And a very well weathered/worn paint one:


source: https://www.army.mil/article/154353/veterans_remember_gulf_war_25_years_later
marcb
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Posted: Monday, May 25, 2020 - 12:54 AM UTC
Found this video. It's a montage with some USMC Humvees during the Gulf war. Still no coalition chevrons, but you could add an orange air ID sheet.
https://youtu.be/a-Fez9RMrko

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