Im driving a M151A1 Mutt w M416, both in MASSTER, they have bumpercodes of 3 - 32 Armor Spearhead.
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We strapped the camo net bag to the front with a couple of seatbelts, put the .50 cal tripod on floor under the right front seat or strapped to the back of the tc stand and the camo pole bag where the diagram has the .50 cal tripod. This is all late 80’s.
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Great info and photos Paul. What unit were you with? I can’t make out any division patches, but seeing the jungle fatigues and jungle boots in the photos, I presume that this was stateside.
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Transitional period. I can see OG-106 fatigues, and a combination of M1 Steel Pots and Kevlar “Fritz” helmets. Mid 80s perhaps? Also, on the 106-22 picture, you can clearly see European Stop Sign, definitely Germany. Hohenfels?
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Ah yes. The old 4th of July Platz. I remember it well.
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Yeah, in 5th ID we don’t get K-pots until summer ‘87. About the same time that the Jungle fatigues were replaced with the hot weather ripstop BDUs. The fatigues in the first photo are the OG-107 jungle fatigues due to the cargo packets on the legs. The perma press OG-107 fatigues had no cargo pockets and were phased out in 84 or 85 IIRC. But yes, that one photo is definitely Europe by the traffic signs and not stateside.
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2nd Armored Division so the patch is over the left pocket. One of the pictures is in Germany. The battalion rotated over to the brigade in 2AD (Fwd) in northern Germany.
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Looks like the unit crest of the 6th infantry on the sides of their helmet liners.
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They were there before 4th, 5th, and 6th battalions of the 502 infantry regiment
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You know what’s the story behind that? It was because Patton wanted the division to be in each soldiers heart…
Or at least that’s the story I was told.
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The STOP sign looks much like they do in the US to me. What gives the photo away as not in the USA is the one immediately preceding it: a sign that says you’re not allowed to stop on this road — which somebody has put up three metres before the STOP sign and about ten metres before the road ends 
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Yeah. The red and blue “X” sign. That’s definitely European. 
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And this is how we used it the rest of the time:
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1987 to mid-'88 for the pictures at Ft. Hood. Not sure why the LT liked the plain OD but he was getting soon so maybe he didn’t want to buy the new stuff. That one picture is in Germany at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne about 15 k north of Bremen. The only US combat brigade in NORTHAG.
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