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Originally Posted by Retsarge
Craig,
You have given me more of my jeeps history in 1week, than I was able to find out on my own in the 4 years that I have had it. I found out that CFB Wainwright was/is a military basic training base. CFB Petawawa is home to Canada's Special Forces.
CFB London has been shut down, and CFB Valcartier is the main logistics supply center.
All very interesting for the jeeps history. Do your maintenance history reports possibly list the army units it was assigned to at Wainwright, Petawawa, or Valcartier??
Also is there any educated guess as to how many of the 800 67/68 Cdn2, or 596 70/71 Cdn3 jeeps are still alive and running out there?? Thanks
Richard
1967 M38A1 Cdn2
7105 96879
CFR 67-07832
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There were no field units in Wainwright aside from the PPCLI battle school (not really a field unit). Wainwright is a place where units go to use the training area. There was quite a stock of vehicles held there to be issued as required to visiting units.
Hard to say how many of the Cdn2 and Cdn 3s still exist. The attrition rates were fairly high for the Cdn2 while the Cdn3 held up a bit better. I have a list somewhere that gives the total numbers of Jeeps still in inventory in the early 80s.
Out this way the Jeeps are not as prone to rust as in the Eastern provinces. As a result, all the Jeeps are hiding out here somewhere, even the early 50s models. There has been some poaching of our rust free jeeps to other areas.