Viking.

[Craig S.]

nm190 -

Welcome! Nice truck - I like the snow throwing pic. To keep all the info requests on vehicles together, use this thread http://orbit.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/foru...ad.php?t=14402. Post the CFR# if you know it (it might be stenciled on the glovebox door) or the VIN off the drivers door jamb. I see the 5 digit numbers on the bumper and hood - do you know if they are the CFR numbers? I will try and use them in the meantime just to get a start in case they are, but post the VIN just to be sure of the proper identifiction. So, how did you come to own the 5/4??? Maybe some visiting unit on winter exercise forget to load it up for the trip home? Post more pics of it if you can. Looks like it is missing the usual rust holes I associate with so many 5/4's.....Cheers,

Craig

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by Craig S.

So, how did you come to own the 5/4??? Maybe some visiting unit on winter exercise forget to load it up for the trip home?

The CAST Brigade:

The 1st Canadian Division was reformed in November of 1989 followed the Canadian Government's decision to end the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable (CAST) Brigade Group commitment to reinforce Northern Norway. 5th Canadian Brigade Group, or more accurately, 5e Groupe-Brigade du Canada, based in Quebec, was thus available for other tasks. The CAST rapid-reinforcement commitment had been encountering problems, most graphically demonstrated during Exercise BRAVE LION in 1986, which prompted Canada to start formal consultations with NATO about consolidating the CAST Brigade and 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, based in southern Germany. The two separate forces would have meant critical logistical and medical support needs would have gone unmet in case of real war. The hole thus created by the removal of the CAST Brigade Group was filled, to a degree, by the creation of a NATO Composite Force (NCF) which Canada promised a battalion group towards.

Many vehicles were prepositioned in Norway for the CAST Brigade. In an act to save face/money, most of the equipment was turned over to Norway when the commitment was terminated. This included the lionshare of Canadas deployed MOSV BV-202 and 206 Fleet. I find it rather odd that we gave away some of the most useful vehicles for our climate, which we never did replenish.

Scotty

[nm190]

Originally Posted by armybuck041

The CAST Brigade:

The 1st Canadian Division was reformed in November of 1989 followed the Canadian Government's decision to end the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable (CAST) Brigade Group commitment to reinforce Northern Norway. 5th Canadian Brigade Group, or more accurately, 5e Groupe-Brigade du Canada, based in Quebec, was thus available for other tasks. The CAST rapid-reinforcement commitment had been encountering problems, most graphically demonstrated during Exercise BRAVE LION in 1986, which prompted Canada to start formal consultations with NATO about consolidating the CAST Brigade and 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, based in southern Germany. The two separate forces would have meant critical logistical and medical support needs would have gone unmet in case of real war. The hole thus created by the removal of the CAST Brigade Group was filled, to a degree, by the creation of a NATO Composite Force (NCF) which Canada promised a battalion group towards.

Many vehicles were prepositioned in Norway for the CAST Brigade. In an act to save face/money, most of the equipment was turned over to Norway when the commitment was terminated. This included the lionshare of Canadas deployed MOSV BV-202 and 206 Fleet. I find it rather odd that we gave away some of the most useful vehicles for our climate, which we never did replenish.

Scotty

This is interesting, and very true. The Hägglunds Bandvagn 206 is very versatile and almost unstoppable, the only competition i've ever seen is the sibling: bv-202, and a modified Laplander.

[nm190]

Interior + crewcab.

[nm190]

Got pics? Yes.

[rob love]

That will be the CFR painted on the dash: full CFR will be 76-28542

[Craig S.]

Scotty -

Thanks for the info on the CAST Brigade. Spoke to a retired RCR WO yesterday afternoon about exercising in Norway and he explained the same basic info on our assets in that location. He said it was the early 90's when he was last there with 2 RCR. Wouldn't mind seeing pictures of the warehouses full of equipment during that period. Sounded like it would be similar to Wainwright - unit shows up, sign for the vehicle + EIS, use and return at end-ex. Next unit repeats.


nm190 -

Thanks for the pics.

Cheers,

Craig

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally Posted by armybuck041

The CAST Brigade:

Many vehicles were prepositioned in Norway for the CAST Brigade. In an act to save face/money, most of the equipment was turned over to Norway when the commitment was terminated. This included the lionshare of Canadas deployed MOSV BV-202 and 206 Fleet. I find it rather odd that we gave away some of the most useful vehicles for our climate, which we never did replenish.

Scotty

Scotty;

Canadian vehicles were prepositioned in Norway actually before the CAST Brigade. As early as 1982, while a component battalion of the AMF(L) Brigade, 1 RCR BG left vehicles behind in Norway upon redeployment back to Canada.

Cheers

[nm190]

Does this mean that it belonged to AMF(L) Brigade, 1 RCR BG?

What can be read from the CFR then?

In Norway, if a cav APC is marked 413, 4 is the squadron-number, 1 is the platoon and 3 is the team.

Similar solution?

[nm190]

Originally Posted by Craig S.

nm190 -

Welcome! Nice truck - I like the snow throwing pic. To keep all the info requests on vehicles together, use this thread http://orbit.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/foru...ad.php?t=14402. Post the CFR# if you know it (it might be stenciled on the glovebox door) or the VIN off the drivers door jamb. I see the 5 digit numbers on the bumper and hood - do you know if they are the CFR numbers? I will try and use them in the meantime just to get a start in case they are, but post the VIN just to be sure of the proper identifiction. So, how did you come to own the 5/4??? Maybe some visiting unit on winter exercise forget to load it up for the trip home? Post more pics of it if you can. Looks like it is missing the usual rust holes I associate with so many 5/4's.....Cheers,

Craig

I found this car in Lakselv, Northern-Norway, i told a friend of mine about it and he bought it, as he is more of a streetmachine kind of guy he quickly lost interest and parked it in the forest.
So.., when he was short on cash one time, i relieved him of this "burden".
I probably payed way too much, but i've been looking for a truck like this since i was 15.

Later (regretably) i've been unable to get in touch with the previous owner.

[nm190]

This truck was stored for a canadian readinessforce in Bjerkvik, Norway, it was sold at a norwegian army-auction in 1996.

[super dave]

I see that you found the site and getting some good info.

[nm190]

Originally Posted by super dave

I see that you found the site and getting some good info.

Yeah! This is great!! Thanks for the tip!

[nm190]

My rig is gonna be in a movie!
Its a norwegian low budget movie but still! Ill post more pics and a trailer when it comes out.
The movie title is "Jakten på Berlusconi" (the hunt for Berlusconi)

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