Here wasn’t in whatever way we could stream you to definitely pallet back toward the fresh new lighthearted vehicle, therefore as the good Samaritans we were, i piled as many circumstances as we you are going to on the all of our V-100-such that people could hardly turn the brand new turret. Obviously, there are some disappointed MPs you to definitely nights and you may lots of terrible head aches the very next day.
To the men who served on a V-100 for a year, the vehicle became more than just a machine. It became your life, your friend and your protector. All but two of our V-100s were named after comic book heroes. These included “Captain America,” “Thor,” “Big Ben,” “Flash,” “Spider – man,” “Barbarian,” “Atom,” “Daredevil” and “Iron Man.” The other two were named “Road Hog” and “The Lemon.” Each of the V-100s had a painting of the character or the name across the front, life-sized and in coloric book superheroes painted on the front of the V-100s made for an interesting article in The Roundup, our local GI newspaper. The April 1970 article was headlined, “66th MP Co. Super Heroes to Combat VC Wrong Doers.”