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usmc recon 1980

Post by norge » Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:20 pm

from today in the sun!!!
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from the living museum in norway :mrgreen: cheers from ken

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by German_EPA » Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:29 pm

great pics as always! :P

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Post by housil » Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:56 pm

You still have snow?!?! :shock:

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by rationtin440 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:59 pm

Awesome pics norge! I've seen pics of all-terrain vehicles in winter camo which looked very similar to our USMC Otter vehicles plus others which resemble small boxy tracked vehicles hooked together with hitches. Not sure if these latter ones were norwegian (please forgive my spelling :cry: ) or American, as I saw no markings on them. It would be cool to see you do some pics in full NBC gear, suit and gas mask, but not sure what you have for that. cheers from Massachusetts!

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by norge » Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:36 pm

Housil: yes we have snow...But now its melting fast so it migth go away in a week or 4 :mrgreen:

rationtin440:we have a thing called bv 202 and bv 206 made in sweden by heggelund
thats what you migth have seen?
and yes i have the mopp gear :D maybe il fix a few pictures of that gear.
but i dont have the od color mopp suit,only the woodland one
so if any have one in large size lett me know.6 color desert are also welcome :D

cheers from ken

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by rationtin440 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:42 pm

I saw the pics a few years ago so not sure, but it seems that Norway has geared her armed forces more towards winter fighting and thus has vehicles more designed for winter conditions and are more robust and reliable than even some American stuff.

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by Cracker » Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:22 pm

The Dutch, German, French and Belgian armed forces use them aswell.. and all the scandinavion countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark)... Hell.. almost all NATO countries use them ;)

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by rationtin440 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:49 pm

I'm getting attle-brained in my mid-40s :cry: ! That pic that Cracker put up looks identical to the search and rescue vehicles that the state police have at the Quabbin Reservoir motor pool, except that the SP vehicles are painted in the copy-righted MA state police two-tone blue color. Plus of course no cupola mounted machineguns..... :shock: yet!

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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by Cracker » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:05 pm

It's a swedish made Dutch Royal Army Hagglund BV206 with the good ol' ma deuce :mrgreen: (in case you need things to get done properly..)
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Re: usmc recon 1980

Post by rationtin440 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:36 pm

Well I guess that is not the same vehicle unless the Massachusetts state police are suddenly buying quality vehicles actually designed to operate in snow.

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