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05-30-2010, 03:25 PM
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The more I thought about it though, the less it made sense that an intelligence/recon unit like how I'm re-imagining GIJOE to be would be tooling around in vehicles that are so conspicuously military in nature. I decided to dig around the 'net for any evidence that special operations forces might be using COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf) vehicles in combat zones. I found these pictures of alleged US Special Forces and their Northern Alliance brothers-in-arms using Toyota Tacoma and Toyota Hilux crew cab pick-up trucks in Afghanistan:
The choice of the Toyota Tacoma (and its international version, the Hilux) makes sense when you think about a recon/intel unit trying to blend in with the local population. The Tacoma/Hilux's worldwide popularity makes parts procurement and replacement in the field comparatively easy and it has a reputation as a particularly durable and relatively fuel-efficient vehicle. And the fact that it uses gasoline, instead of military-grade JP-8 fuel, means that users can gas up at local stations (gasoline engines are also quieter than standard US tactical vehicle engines, which are basically diesel engines modified so that they can use JP-8 fuel).
Anyway, I still haven't settled on a "named" vehicle for the GIJOE team (in fact, I don't know if I'll even make a chapter on vehicles in the reference bible). All I know is that if I do choose one, it's going to be an NSTV (Non-standard Tactical Vehicle) like those Tacomas/Hiluxes above.[/list]
A lot of the guys in Iraq were running around in all sorts of "appropriated" vehicles, everything from armored F-250's to some beat but still running late-80's Tacomas, and even some South African armored vehicles (one was called a Mamba, I forget what the other was called) that I got to drive around, which was a blast. And surprisingly wasn't too much different driving on the right side of the vehicle from the left. But the strangest thing about these is that the engine is a tiny little 4-cylinder the same as what was in the early-90's Toyota Corollas. Here's a link:
http://img232.imageshack.us/i/mambamki01ui8.jpg/
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