I should dig up some photos of the "Mad Max" Zettlemeyer we had (and lost) on TF 3-06. Think hasty "up armoured", Armoured Front End Loader.
Same goes for the Mamba I drove in Bosnia. Anything we could think of was locally built, bolted on and then removed at the end of the Roto only to be repeated by the next Roto.
Point being is that any publication including that CFTO was treated as a "guideline" during the majority of TFA, especially the early years.
EDIT: Come to think of it, the EOD guys had at one point plumbed MLVW horns to their Bisons only to be removed by the Mechs. A few months later, sure enough, the Mechs had an MLVW horn on their Buffalo.
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Gone but never forgotten: Sgt Shane Stachnik, Killed in Action on 3 Sept 2006, Panjwaii Afghanistan
Last edited by Scott Bentley; 10-12-13 at 22:33.
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