Canadian Iltis in Holland

[45jim]

Rob I'm surprised they replaced the Iltis so quickly in Cypress. I was there in 88 in 60 Recce and we patrolled the buffer zone in the Iltis everyday. We used them in the city Monday to Saturday and only took them out into the country on Sunday's (out to Lorigina) to relieve the Brit Scout Car Squadron (equipped with Ferrets) for a day. We used the Grizzly's sporadically (mostly on the rural route and for Embassy Drills) and the Lynx's only during the first month or so before turning them over to Rural Squadron where they sat idle for the tour. The Iltis had a pretty easy life in Cypress as the route was 25 years old (by that time) and had been plowed by generations of troops in M38A1's. Our patrols staggered their departure times but a route only took a few hours daily, while the rural route took all day. They were in good shape when we arrived and turned them over in similar shape (we never had an N/S Iltis the whole tour) but the Lynx's were in terrible shape, we spent weeks repairing, repainting and re-stowing them and once up to snuff, they were parked and tarped. We did find Canadian M38A1's cut in half disposed in the ocean off the North Coast near the MG range.