Veterans

When I was in Iraq in 2004, we even came across some old 113s in some of Sadam's motor pools.

Going through some of the armor we found at FOB Normandy (i.e. Muqdadiyah, Iraq) was like going through a military history museum of the 1960s. The Iraqi military was made up of such a hodge podge of vehicles it was comical. They had everything from US 113s, to Chieftans, to old broken down Leopards to all of the old Soviet era vehicles I had to memorize in my vehicle identification classes.

I spent the afternoon rummaging through a bunch of these vehicles and it was as if the Iraqi army went to the motor pool the day before the war and then never showed up again. They just left newspapers, books, and all sorts of equipment behind in their vehicles. It was very interesting to see that these guys were probably screwing off in their motor pools during "command maintenance" like we did in our motor pools.

The 113s were from the Vietnam era and the parts weren't even compatible with the 113s we had in 2004.