- Neil_Baumgardner
Cool, thanks. Only AFVs on display on post are the following right?:
M4 High-Speed Tractor USA out
M42 Duster USA out
M60A0 USA out Removed from WSMR
M163 USA out
Neil
- Dontos
What about McGregor Range & White Sands Missle Range?
Although not in Texas, they do fall under some organizational control of Ft Bliss.
- Dontos
I remember some of the original captured V-2 missles on Ft Bliss & one at White Sands. Not an AFV, interesting still the same.
Perhaps a Sgt York floating around also....
Roy, got any intel on that?
- Roy_A_LingleHi Neil! Hi Folks!
- Neil_Baumgardner
Cool, thanks. Only AFVs on display on post are the following right?:
M4 High-Speed Tractor USA out
M42 Duster USA out
M60A0 USA out Removed from WSMR
M163 USA out
Neil
Correct! What does the "out" stand for?
There is also a M19 SP twin 40mm AAA vehicle on display inside the building.
Just added within the last two months is a Sgt. York which is also inside the building.
There is a Chapperal version of the M548 also inside. Not armor, but a member of the M113 APC family.
A M15 halftrack with 37mm and twin 50 cal.s inside the building.
There was a M16 quad 50 halftrack, but I need to check on that one. Seams like the last time I was in there, that one wasn't there along with a couple of other items. Maybe a major case of CRS. Hope to go by there sometime this week or next, will double check for it and any others.
They have just added a M-35 2.5 ton gun truck with the Maxim quad 50 turret on it's two wheel trailier mounted in the cargo bed per the operator's manuel.
- Roy_A_Lingle
The Ft Bliss museum just added a Sgt York. The museum had a curator who didn't want a York because it never served at Ft. Bliss in an active unit. After he retired last year, his replacement was offered one that was on a list for use as a hard target, that guy went after it. It had been setting outside in the weather for a number of years. It is now inside the new building with a very nice looking desert camo job on it. I have tried to take pictures, but it is too dark inside the building for my cheap camera.
- Roy_A_LingleHey Neil!
Would you like to know if there is more that one of an item on display?
Like the M42 Dusters, I think there are four of them. Two in front of unit Headquarters, one outside in front of the museum and one inside.
Sgt, Scouts Out!
- Neil_Baumgardner
M4 High-Speed Tractor USA out
M42 Duster USA out
M163 USA out
- Neil_Baumgardner
I wonder where the York came from, if not elsewhere on Fort Bliss... Any chance you could find out? Might help avoid a duplication on the list...
- Roy_A_Lingle
I don't remember which base he said it was at. I was surpised that it was NOT from Ft. Bliss or White Sands Missile Range. I don't remember other that is was one of the southeastern states. Will try get that info for you next visit.
Sgtscoutsout!
- Neil_Baumgardner
There is/was a Sergeant York at the Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park in Pall Mall, TN - but thats not a base and I doubt they'd take that one...
Neil
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