Count me in!
Since I am up to my ears in bren carrier activity, I am all for a "carrier "club, but Geoff has the right of it, I think...MLU serves as the central connecting point for us. (What ever happened to the Carrier Platoon Site?)
As for shows, I think the WW2 group we have down here, 15th Recce, fills that bill. As in my earlier post, we are a rallying point for WW2 Armour (and the C-15!). I know other units have vehicles, but it always seems to be an Airborne jeep.
I would love to see another living history group turn out to an event with another carrier.
To that end, I am trying to set up something that I had mentioned to a few of you before: a WW2 event that has the terrain, and logisitcs worth the hassle and cost of dragging your armour from all over NA.
We thought that site might have been Gamp Gruber in OK, but it was just selected to be the National Homeland Security Training Reserve and they decided that allowing WW2 reenactors to hold events there would get in the way of their new mission.
I would like to see an event near to Alan Cors' museum because he will let out his Churchill, Grant, and other armour to come and play.
Ft. Indiantown Gap,PA. is a wash because they have decided to limit the vehicles in the field. Long story, but the small training area they select to keep everyone in walking distance to the busses mean the vehicles have about a mile of road to use. So they want to avoid the "conga line" that results with a pile of vehicles and no place to drive. So, they have been discouraging the heavy armour from attending, and limit the softskins to 2 jeeps and a truck per company (of which they have 4 for all the allies)
Is there any interest in having some kind of "national convention" for Carriers? CMPs?
Cheers,
Jim
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