It’s from an old slide scan I made and running across it again I began wondering what these are. This would have been taken late 69 or 70 and I am thinking they were ARVN.
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Cadillac Gage Commando,
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Thanks. I only saw them this one time and pretty sure they were ARVN
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CG Commandos were also used by USAF for air base defense
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AFAIK they used the turretless XM706E2 for the job
H.P.
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As well as US Army Military Police units. It eventually evolved into the M1117 Guardian ASV, which is supplementing/replacing the M1151 ECV HMMWV in MP Units.
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The Commando XM-706 was originally supplied to ARVN units, prior to US Army who took interest in the mobile platform and incorporated the vehicle into use, primarily as Military Police escort vehicles. IIRC, seems a LTC wanted to ensure the Cadalloy armor would do the job of protecting the occupants, and set up a demonstration where the LTC and another service member sat inside a Commando, which was subjected to 7.62mm MG fire. I don;t know about the potential for rining of the ears, but both officers walked out unscathed. The LTC the gave his recommendation that Big Army adopt use of the Commando. Now THAT is believing in your product!
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If you haven’t read it, here is an article found on the Tank Encyclopedia
Wikipedia:
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Funny thing, I’m just building one now:
The vehicles in your photo are very interesting, because they are “the missing link” between early and late V100s. The early ones had angulat wheel cutouts (that tended to crack where the angles were) and two vision ports forward of the side doors. The later ones had rounded wheel cutouts and only one vision block forward of the side doors. And the ones on the original photo have rounded wheel cutouts, but two vision blocks on the side - interesting mix of features.
Thanks for posting the photo and have a nice day
Paweł
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I’d have to go through the slides and see what pics were before and after this one but I’m 95% sure these were ARVN. Something in my mind keeps reminding me I saw perfectly clean, starched uniforms so…
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