Would like to contribute this shot of an ordinary Deuce in-service.
Taken during the early 1980's…Still in use by Rocky Mountain Rangers in the interior of British Columbia..
Local Reserve Regiment.. doing it's bit…providing logistical support to the organizers of Spoolmak Days….An annual event celebrating the joys of living in Kamloops. (Spoolmak is Kamloops spelled backward's)..
The faithful old Regimental Deuce hauled a mountain of gear out to a field on the eastern outskirts of Kamloops …right beside the Trans Canada Hiway.
Historians will note the big marque tent being laboriously erected… This is pre-modular days…
And also the bell tent next to it….wartime dated I believe…and hotter than a furnace during a Kamloops summer.
Amazing what the Reserve unit's soldiered-on with.
Although…to be fair…the young Lieutenant and the RSM did get to share their very own jeep…
Certainly have taken this old workhorse for granted….nice this thread is working to change that.
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