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HEMTT Question
Burik
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 02:43 PM UTC
Hello All:

My current project is a HEMTT fueler M978 of the 3rd ID in OIF. I was wondering if every one would have a radio, only some, or none. No radio comes w/ the kit or the AM Pro Art interior kit I am using. Now that I think of it, I have not noticed radio antennas on HEMTTs.

Thoughts?

Bob
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 02:54 PM UTC
Bob,
Depends on the type. I haven't seen many on fuelers, but our ammo HEMMTs in 1-39 all had radios. The radio was mounted on the center console facing the TC. Antenna mounted off the rear of the cab.
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 03:27 PM UTC
In the armor battalions and cavalry squadrons I served in, the M977 and M978 did not have radios, but the M984 wrecker did have a radio for dispatching it on recovery missions.
Burik
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 04:01 PM UTC
Thanks guys.
ProfessorF8
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 05:11 PM UTC
Seems like a good place to ask: To what extent did HEMMTs reach USAREUR before the cold war ended? I've seen some pics of them (either in the Concord REFORGER title or Skinner's USAREUR book--I don't remember which right now), but I get a sense that they were like Humvees, and generally only toward the late 80s. Also, did some variants appear signficantly before others?

sgtsauer
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Posted: Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 06:59 PM UTC
Hey Bob, out of the 10 in my Battalion, none of them had radios.
Sabot
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Posted: Monday, September 05, 2005 - 01:02 AM UTC

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Seems like a good place to ask: To what extent did HEMMTs reach USAREUR before the cold war ended? I've seen some pics of them (either in the Concord REFORGER title or Skinner's USAREUR book--I don't remember which right now), but I get a sense that they were like Humvees, and generally only toward the late 80s. Also, did some variants appear signficantly before others?

When I arrived in Germany in late 1987, HEMTTs were already a common fixture in the maneuver battalions. Some units had HMMWVs before I arrived,our division received HMMWVs in early 1989.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 03:33 AM UTC
I was in Germany from mid-85 to mid 87 - the Arty boys in Augsburg had HEMTT's before I left - I remember being quite impressed by them.
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Posted: Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 04:25 PM UTC
fuelers in first cav right now are not running radios, a few on convoys are carrying a dismount radio in a bag and using it, most of the guyss we escorted used motorola or ICOM radios
Burik
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Posted: Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 06:02 PM UTC
Thanks everybody. Very helpful.
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