The picture below shows several vehicles from 2AD at Ft. Hood from the period of 1987-1988. The only definite is the M106 in the bottom right which is in HHC 3/66 AR.

I'm looking for pictures of M1 with similar markings.

Thanks,
Paul

Now I follow what you were talking about in your email. Those look like temporary exercise markings. Each TF had a different symbol for the exercise that was applied to their vehicles. Still can't help on what each unit symbol was, but now I know whet you are talking about. LTC Rob Gronovius, Sabot, may be able to help you out with these. I think he was at Ft Hood about the same timeframe.

Those look like the standard tact board markings used in armor battalions but painted on the side of the vehicle.

The outside square represented the battalion within the division. The geometric symbol could be a square, circle, hexagon, heptagon, pentagon, octagon, etc.

No tan or yellow symbol inside was a battalion HQ vehicle. The geometric symbol inside designated the company, square=A, circle=B, triangle=C, diamond=D. (or so I think).

The Roman numeral inside was the platoon, I, II, III.

Guys, thanks for the info.

We had these painted on all the time I was at Hood and I at least know that our M106 tracks had them on the rear.

Paul