Darrell !! It's been a while since London.... I hear that you are comming out east. Hope to bump into you, not with a vehicle though... Still have your volkswagen?
Chris! I think that the Iltis looks great. This type of "modification" is done as a morale and demonstration of skills and imagination type of event for the various EME trades, and vehicles like these are produced in their spare time, or on any down time on operations, using only items of scrap or what is lying around, showing ingenuity and superior skills of their trades (something from nothing kind of idea). There is one here in Gagetown that one of the units enter in various events to show the colours of the EME branch, like they have in the photo above.
The MILCOTS is replacing the Iltis in PRes units only. It will be used as supplemental to LSVW cgo/pax veh in RegF trg estab only, and will not be dist to line units, nor will it be deployed. PRes Armd Recce Regts will be issued the GWAGEN as their primary cbt veh. (From Bill Mullholland)
And last, for the LSVW. They certainly are not what we would want but I have never been in a similar vehicle that performs better in the deep muck in bull low. I have never been stuck in one, and I have certainly put a few kms in the back 40 in Gagetown and several kms abroad in them.
But in the end, this is just one dumb grunt's opinion....mine, of course!!!
Craig Tanner
Oromocto N.B.
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