Would the Wrangler (4 dr) and the Gladiator make good military garrison vehicles?

[KurtP]

Same. The TLC70 trucks are legit...

CCT? Or 7th?

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[Mayhem 6]

CCT? Or 7th?

Neither, but AF...unit's similar to 82 ABN, but BN size.

 

[SuburbanGP88]

Maybe it'll work for MPs on base or general light personnel transport but you got no room for gear and forget having a full hard plate on with a rifle. It's way too small to fit 4 adults in full battle rattle.

 

[N9NWO]

FCA missed their opportunity to make this a thing. Chevy ZR2 won the contract.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34518940/gm-4x4-colorado-based-military/

That is still more of a tactical vehicle rather than a garrison vehicle.

 

[N9NWO]

Maybe it'll work for MPs on base or general light personnel transport but you got no room for gear and forget having a full hard plate on with a rifle. It's way too small to fit 4 adults in full battle rattle.

again garrison, not tactical. Most COTS cannot deal with the abuse troops throw at them. Right now most garrison vehicles are Suburbans, vans or pickups. Not field vehicles.

 

[Smittie]

again garrison, not tactical. Most COTS cannot deal with the abuse troops throw at them. Right now most garrison vehicles are Suburbans, vans or pickups. Not field vehicles.

Our favorite inside the wire vehicle was a John Deere Gator. We drove the hell out of that thing.

 

[SuburbanGP88]

again garrison, not tactical. Most COTS cannot deal with the abuse troops throw at them. Right now most garrison vehicles are Suburbans, vans or pickups. Not field vehicles.

I know but MPs do get geared up too when they're done counting rivets on hangars.

 

[N9NWO]

I know but MPs do get geared up too when they're done counting rivets on hangars.

MPs have the ASV which is a heavily armored vehicle

 

[rr11]

Thinking back to the dark ages (2003) I can't see me getting out in full battle rattle and I was a tanker no body armor.

 

[KurtP]

Maybe it'll work for MPs on base or general light personnel transport but you got no room for gear and forget having a full hard plate on with a rifle. It's way too small to fit 4 adults in full battle rattle.

It would work as “well” other commercial refits. I’ve fought from hiluxes and 76 series land cruisers that were up armored, so they are even tighter inside than normal. At 6-2 and 260+kit, i was the smallest guy of 4 in the truck a couple times.

Its not ideal, its not comfortable, you have to stay physically flexible; but you cant take MATV’s everywhere you go. getting in and out of any vehicle in kit sucks to some extent. A Gladiator wouldnt be as useful because youd stick out like a sore thumb, but it would be as spacious and capable or more than a Hilux or 76pickup

 

[takeitsleazy]

We’ve been driving fleet vehicles on base for a few decades now. Jeeps wouldn’t make sense whatsoever tbh. Humvees and MRAPs for armored stuff, and the cool guys drive RZRs and dirt bikes. I think my squadron has one LMTV that we train with sometimes

 

[stickshifter]

Trying to get in and out of the back doors in full battle rattle with an M16 (vice an M4) would be a bit like birthing elephants, even for APFT 300 soldiers. For a garrison vehicle that might be OK.

^ My thoughts exactly. We ripped doors off Defenders in the 1980s and they were still a bitch to bail out of. No IEDs back then, and you couldn't up-armor enough for a TM-62...

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