The two lynx were replaced with two m113a2 pioneer dozers during my tour. I was told that there was an agreement as to how much armour we could hold in theater, so it was two in for two out.
The Iltis were already in trouble at that point, although some of it was unfounded. Cracks in caulking on the seams of the frame were in some cases being misdiagnosed as frame cracks. The body cracking was real though. I also noted that all our in theater Iltis had the mechanical fuel pumps from the commercial VWs installed due to the unreliability of the electric pumps. Despite the heat of Cypress, we did not experience any vapor lock and got rid of the constant failures of the electric pump.
The grey matter is starting to thicken....I don't recall the AVGP in Cypress that much. I will have to pull out the tour book and see. I do recall us having to assemble the runflats, so no doubt they were out there.
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