Stewart, you mean cammo like this? :clown: Actually the tractors that I procurred through contracting went to Iraq in OEM colors. The soldiers loved those tractors and they are still going strong over there now with the 101st. I was constantly bargaining for tools and I got to purchase some really nice hydraulic test modules for testing stability augmentation system (SAS) actuators, pitch trim assembies, and other hydraulic flight controls. The soldier loved those too. I think the best part of my job was to see the difference good equipment and tools could make for the soldiers and the happy expressions on their faces when the truck showed up with the goodies.
Michael, I was in and around Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq, and Bahrain for about a year during Desert Storm. I flew MEDEVAC back then and our home base was in Dahran Airbase. We were over in the British AeroSpace Hangar with what was left of the Kuwaiti Airforce. I did some time up at KKMC as well with the 3/160th. I was never so happy to see green vegetation after that deployment. I still have pieces of SCUD missle and other memorobealia. We has what was left of a SCUD missle that had been shot down in our hangar and were cutting it up and selling the pieces to the GI's and trading with it. :smiles: The commander lost it when one of the crews came back with bunch of RPG's, RPKS's, AK-47's, and hand grenades.
I am glad to have it all behind me. I am still making the adjustment to being a civilian again. :crazy: