Canadian Iltis in Holland

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It always amazes me how far some MVs travel. While the world has gotten a lot smaller thanks to communications like the internet, shipping has not. To see behemoths like Cdn M135s showing up in Nevada, or Iltis showing up in far reaching corners of the world, is always a surprise.

I did not know we left Iltis in Germany. At that time they were only 10 years old.....lots of miles left in them at that point. The M100 trailers were left behind, many destroyed so as to save the work of having to list and sell them. And of course the Lynx, since that fleet was being disposed of anyway.

I was in cypress in 1990, when we replaced the existing Iltis fleet there with the pajero. The Iltis wore quickly due to the rough roads, and had suffered from considerable cracking in the bodies and the frames. That fleet was all sent here to Shilo where they were mixed/matched and returned to service.

When we left Kandahar, the only vehicles that were being left behind were some of the gators. Even the MLVWs, at the end of their service life and with little or no salvage value, were being shipped home.