Identification

[maple_leaf_eh]

Kicking around Kingston and Wainwright (in the good old days of RV89) I noticed a camo painted Suburban with 5/4 accessories, front grill, AMUs and a tubular roof rack. I asked someone in the old 1 Canadian Signals Regiment (1 CSR). He said it was the Div commander's. I remember thinking that a 5/4 vinyl tarp would be an excellent decoy to decoy the old man's rover to look like any other echelon truck.

[rob love]

I ran into one of those cammed up jimmys myself a number of years back. I was only home a week or two from a JLC course in Wainwright, when we had to head back again for a RV. After the RV, we mechanics got to stay another couple weeks repairing M113s for some summer task which was upcoming. So long storey short, I, and a bunch of the others were getting a little stir crazy being in Wainwright far too long. So we absconded with a 5/4 ton, and headed for Lloydminster, where it was rumoured the beer flowed a-plenty, and one could watch dancing girls while partaking of aforementioned spirits. But as we pulled up into the establishments parking area, who else was there but a camaflouged blazer with a big 9 on the door. This was in 1989, so it may very well be the same truck Terry is talking about.
Not really wanting to crowd the establishment with another military truck, we headed elsewhere in town, grabbing a little bit of McDonalds before heading back. Of course, with the luck we were having, our ET was waiting in the parking lot for us.

Ahh, the good old days.

[Ed Storey]

Rob, thank you for looking up the vehicle, I will e-mail you on the DIN from work.

There were actually two Suburbans at Div HQ - Callsigns 99 and 99A. From 1982 until at least 1999 the Div HQ went through three different vehicle models for these callsigns. In the early 1980s Jeep Cherokees were used, then there was a switch to Suburbans and two models of these were used.

I have photographs of all of them, just a matter of getting the thousands of photos scanned, here is 99A in Kingston in 1996.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Oooohhhh!!!

Where is that Iltis Line truck now???