Anyone have any pictures of any old CAP ground team vehicles? I mean, REAL old! Starting about 1990 and back. I try to explain to my cadets what ground team vehicles looked like "back in the day" when I was a cadet (1984-1989) and they look at me like I'm speaking in Yiddish. Just curious if anybody out there has any...
This was VERY common for us...
This particular rig was with the Esterville Composite Squadron, Iowa Wing. It was a regular up at Blue Beret in the 1980s. Had a red light and siren! We had one just like it on Land Rescue Team #46, Group #9, Wisconsin Wing. LOL All our ground team vehicles were equipped with red lights and sirens!
http://www.blueberet.org/CAP-AMB.jpg (http://www.blueberet.org/CAP-AMB.jpg)
Expedition Jeep 6bt M725 Project (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu0AFEJxx04#)
Found this video of a former CAP M725 field ambulance which shows the truck well. He's doing some mods to it, but it's similar to the ones we had back in the day. We didn't have a Cummins in ours... :)
He says he's going to keep the heater in the back, I think that's a good call on his part. If he ever gets it running again he's going to be amazed. WIWAC I was riding in that seat one winter day with my foot right in front of the heater vent (heat comes out of a big duct below the seat). I noticed after a bit the back of my leg and heel was getting hot. I reached down and touched the back of my boot and found the heater had melted the polish!
We used them during snow emergencies (read major blizzards) in Lincoln, transporting doctors and nurses to the hospitals for their shifts. It literally could not snow enough to stop one of these. Put it in 4X4 and low gear range and I think it would just about climb a vertical wall (never tried to of course..). The thing was slow, uncomfy, and drew stares from everyone who saw us, but it had torque like nobody's business, and plenty of room for a ground team and all the gear. All in all a great vehicle. Lots of great memories from those times.
When I was on Land Rescue Team #46 "a million years ago" in Wisconsin Wing, we had a Kaiser Field ambulance posted in Mayville, a CUCV truck converted to a utility body to be our "rescue truck" in West Bend and a Kaiser M-715 with a camper shell as our "comm truck" over in Sheboygan. One in each county in our group.
Milwaukee E.S. Squadron had a Dodge M-770 field ambulance and a Dodge R-3 USAF rescue truck for their ground team vehicles. They always got the good stuff first! Racine Comp. Sqdn. was ground pounding in a 1966 Chevy van! LOL
Here's another CAP ambulance, complete with crew.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6744267215_f3be6431bb.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6744267215/)
Another fine CAP vehicle (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6744267215/#)
And the backbone of the ground team fleet
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6740881905_e8988a5f63.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881905/)
CAP Dodge Power Wagon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881905/#)
as used here
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6740881847_c66118f062_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881847/)
Ground Team Vehicle of Choice - Dodge Power Wagon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881847/#)
Mike
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=4519.msg115541#msg115541 (http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=4519.msg115541#msg115541)
Second and Third Pictures.
SARDAK... that is hysterical!!! They probably got it from DRMO just like that! LOL The Dodge Power Wagon... oh, yeah! Saw several of those in the by-gone days. They were to us what the CUCVs are now. Stout as all get-out and you couldn't ever kill them!
We had jeeps, too!
http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=395225 (http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=395225)
http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6639 (http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6639)
Quote from: sardak on January 22, 2012, 09:03:42 PM
Here's another CAP ambulance, complete with crew.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6744267215_f3be6431bb.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6744267215/)
Another fine CAP vehicle (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6744267215/#)
And the backbone of the ground team fleet
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6740881905_e8988a5f63.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881905/)
CAP Dodge Power Wagon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881905/#)
as used here
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E6740881847_c66118f062_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881847/)
Ground Team Vehicle of Choice - Dodge Power Wagon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66879947@N07/6740881847/#)
Mike
I remember using the power wagons as SAT vehicles when I was in SAC.
I have several pictures of the various vehicles we used during the 70s and 80s. All the pictures were borrowed from another site and are not my personal property.
(http://i.imgur.com/7MgoF.jpg)
This was our squadron CC's personal jeep.
(http://i.imgur.com/pC89z.jpg)
We also had a mule
(http://i.imgur.com/9af6J.jpg)
The GAWG staff car
(http://i.imgur.com/vPbyV.jpg)
These three vehicles saw us through the 80s, until they were retired to make way for the blue vans and pickups. The ambulance in the middle used to be OG until they made us repaint not only the giant red cross to blue, but the entire van to white.
(http://i.imgur.com/vDmek.jpg)
I'm guessing these vehicles guided us through the transition from military surplus jeeps and 1 1/4 ton pickups to military surplus crew cabs and vans.
(http://i.imgur.com/jRP6T.jpg)
Our very own 1 1/4 ton pickup, otherwise known as a five-quarter.
Quote from: cpyahoo on January 21, 2012, 11:23:26 PM
Anyone have any pictures of any old CAP ground team vehicles? I mean, REAL old! Starting about 1990 and back. I try to explain to my cadets what ground team vehicles looked like "back in the day" when I was a cadet (1984-1989) and they look at me like I'm speaking in Yiddish. Just curious if anybody out there has any...
"REAL old!" Pre 1990.... now I feel REAL old!
This was taken around 1977 during rappelling training at a rock quarry. This was our "nice truck"!
"Real Old" really depends on your current age. Real old to me does not relate to 1990, since I was commissioned in 1957: now that is REAL OLD!!!!
Quote from: bosshawk on October 19, 2012, 10:54:54 PM
"Real Old" really depends on your current age. Real old to me does not relate to 1990, since I was commissioned in 1957: now that is REAL OLD!!!!
Oh wow! Somebody older than I ! 😃
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.
Quote from: Eeyore on October 20, 2012, 01:25:54 AM
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.
This...is...awesome.
Seeing all these vehicles .. this assorted collection ..
(http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/9/96/Ragtagfleet.jpg)
Makes me think of something else from the era of most of these photos..
Quote from: Eeyore on October 20, 2012, 01:25:54 AM
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.
Isn't that thing still at Timmerman? I swear I saw it there, along with a few planes in the MESS/10th Sr Spt Sqdn hangar a few years ago
I don't have picture of this vehicle, but I believe that it is the oldest active vehicle in the CAP fleet. It is a 1972 International box van that started off as a book-mobile then was used by the Delaware State Police as a Command Post. The DSP gave the van to the DEWG several years ago. "The BoB" is used as a Communications Command vehicle. Pictures have been posted on CAP-Talk in the past. The inside has been completely refinished with new radios, computers, etc. and the exterior will eventually be re-painted CAP white when the necessary funds are raised.
My brother's 1985 Toyota 4x4 truck was the ultimate GT vehicle back then. :clap: I saw a Honda Civic with a "Find" decal so that is a gas friendly UDF vehicle. ;D
Eeyore... OMG!!! I remember that limo from Blue Beret in 1986! I even did a ramp check in it when Mitch Berry got it stuck in the mud! LMAO
I wish I had pictures of our team vehicles from when I was with Land Rescue Team #46 (WI Wing). In 1986, we had a Kaiser field ambulance (people mover), a CUCV Chevy pick-up converted to a utility body ("rescue" truck) and an M-715 that a camper top was added to it (Comm truck). All painted USAF strata blue AND red lights & siren! You'll never see that again in CAP!!!
Man, these are some great pictures! Starting back in 1990 was when CAP was casting off all the old surplus/DRMO vehicles and went to mini-vans. Never been the same since...
Quote from: cpyahoo on November 01, 2012, 07:01:04 PM
Eeyore... OMG!!! I remember that limo from Blue Beret in 1986! I even did a ramp check in it when Mitch Berry got it stuck in the mud! LMAO
Ardy & Ed's posted it to their Facebook page this summer. It would have been cool to see, but I'm not that old...
Quote from: Eeyore on October 20, 2012, 01:25:54 AM
I enjoy this one, taken at Ardy and Ed's Drive-In in Oshkosh, WI, circa 1985.
That is a Checker Station Wagon. Saw them used as Taxi's for a long time. Not the best on fuel, but they could haul a lot of stuff. Funny thing is that those ugly cars are worth a lot of money now.
*LOOKING UP*
Oof! I sure do like to repeat myself! :-[
I love these pictures!
I remember from the 80s and early 90s senior members being able to get military licenses and check out everything from military busses to 2 1/2 tons.
I remember a SM thowing 6 of us in the back of his station wagon and driving us to the motor pool at Camp Blanding and signing out a deuce. We got tossed around the back of that thing like rag dolls. Thank God for troop straps!