The kind of truck the expensive driver drove……this one was on the maintenance ramp at Camp Schwab over a weekend, probably in the spring of 1977……the vehicle on the trailer is a LVTR-7, the Recovery version of the P-7 family, later called AAVs……..R&E, if visible, stands for Replace and Evacuate, which is a Depot overhaul program intended to remove vehicles from the FMF while overhaul is still economically repairable….a one-for one exhcange. The truck likely belonged to Truck Company, H&S Bn, 3rd FSR…….they moved 128 tracked vehicles from Schwab to Naha Port that year….all between midnight and sunrise, which is when the Japanese permitted wide loads on their roads.
LVTR-7 on a trailer
