Cleaning out my other barn, I had saved these two signs, one is aluminum, the other steel, 36" long, about 6" wide, big letters and each has the opposite wording on the other side, i.e. MILITARY POLICE OR DEADLINE
Flip it over when the MP MUTT was deadlined....meaning it has an issue in the Preventative Maintenance Checks written on the DA Form 2404, which keep it from operating safely and requires maintenance (or parts) or safety gear before it can be dispatched (never want to get your motorpool with less than about 90% operational rate or people start getting chewed on by higher )
Sticks behind the 2 windshield washer pivot points on the A2 windshield (the inverted "Vee" notches). Pretty self explanatory, I suppose it would fit earlier MUTTs, but then take up actual glass windshield space...
I don't care about selling them, just sheet metal...they would need repainting anyway, just showing them for factual history and potential if someone wants to copy an authentic style piece to be different at the show (or say anything else at a show or on the road I suppose )
V/R W Winget
M151A2 era Military Police / Deadline signage FYI
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Re: M151A2 era Military Police / Deadline signage FYI
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I find it interesting that the signs are reversible. As a motor pool would just have the DEADLINE sign for any M151. So I guess these were actually used by the MP unit then?
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1943 G518 "Ben Hur" Trailer Steel Body
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Re: M151A2 era Military Police / Deadline signage FYI
Yes, every sign had this on both sides of them. And I can say that I have ONLY seen these with this Military Police unit, never on another units vehicles, but it may be out there as something that hit PS magazine as a "good idea" and you could maybe put your girls name on the reverse of "Delta Dogs" or "Charlies Chillers" or any sort of unit name your Commander approved of if camo'd to match the jeep on the front of the sign.
MP's are a peculiar bunch, typically writing a lot of tickets on-post, so it wouldn't do to travel around in their jeep with a 2404 with a signed off safety issue on it, so I bet they deadlined a lot of them, frequently, especially as they began issuing HUMVEEs and likely would end up taking one of them VS the old MUTTs if they were all deadlined .
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MP's are a peculiar bunch, typically writing a lot of tickets on-post, so it wouldn't do to travel around in their jeep with a 2404 with a signed off safety issue on it, so I bet they deadlined a lot of them, frequently, especially as they began issuing HUMVEEs and likely would end up taking one of them VS the old MUTTs if they were all deadlined .
V/R W. Winget
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