No white hood numbers. They had license plates for the CFR numbers. The dash numbers should be there though.
You also should stencil the tire pressures (H and CC) over each wheel well.
There were the FMC Standing orders as well as various brigade standing orders which directed the markings on each vehicle. Never seen these orders? Well then you would be in the 98% of the NCMs that hadn't either. As a result, many of the markings ended up being dictated at the unit level. Best bet is to contact the unit's museum and observe photos of what they actually had in use if you want to see what actually existed, as opposed to the usual over-stenciling done by collectors.
Further to what Mike was saying above, the only time I can think of that a Jeep type vehicle was actually sent into a war as a fighting recce vehicle was early in the Afghan war. (Only the Liberals would send their soldiers into battle with sofskinned, unarmoured 17 year old vehicles. Thank you Conservatives for giving our soldiers the equipment they needed and deserved: RG31s, functional Leopards, AHSVS etc) We were not there as peacekeepers as in previous conflicts, like Bosnia, Cypress, or Egypt where we were "neutral" in the conflict. Yes there were shooting incidents in all those wars, but those were more anomalies rather than the expected results.
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