A VISUAL ENHANCEMENT

Posted by Scott A. Humphrey on 5th Dec 2014

When mechanized armies go into the field, or into combat, their maint assets accompany them. Those maint personel need a clean well lit place to work, to store spare parts, and for different types of test eqpt etc.

These shelters, when placed on a 5 ton wheeled vehicle, (US M932 or M-54) there, you then have a mobile shop. Install some radio ant mounts on top and you have either a como truck, or a como repair shop. Connect a 400 gal water trailer and you got a mobile field kitchen. Put red crosses on the side, and you then might have a mobile medical treatment vehicle.

The interiors are generic in their design lending themselves to be set up however needed. For lighting, they can be powered by the host vehicles 24 volt dc system, and there are connections to put them on the Battalion external power generation grid.

Every MOS repair trade will require 1 or multibles depending on individual circumstances. It wouldn't be unusual to see 15 or more of these on the backs of 5 ton trucks in a batt sized maint company.

Fact is, my ficitional 1/87 scale regimental combat team, "TEAM YANKEE" couldn't function without these shelters.