After re-writing the introduction for a piece on gun trucks, I realized that I'm going to have to rethink certain aspects of a lot of pieces. Some of the infantry brigades and divisions operating in CONUS are going to have to have some gun trucks added to their rosters. The tracked AFVs simply can't be sent running all over kingdom come. In Sixth US Army's AO, where some oil from Bakersfield is available, gun trucks probably will be relatively common as escorts. Colorado probably has a fair number of gun trucks running on oil out of Wyoming. I'll have to think about 104th ID, though. They have great distances to cover, but I'm iffy about the fuel.
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