Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: dl3a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Christopher Ladd) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: FAV's Message-ID: <1991Mar15.035237.8376@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Mar 91 03:52:37 GMT References: <1991Mar14.035453.26969@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Daniel Christopher Ladd The March 1991 _Soldiers_ magazine had an article about the deactivation of the 9th LID, the original user of the FAV. The 9th, organized to test new motorized operational concepts, is being reduced to a single motorized infantry brigade, to be designated the 199th Inf Bde. However, there was also a sidebar about the FAV. Originally, about 250 were procured for the 9th. Due to a number of reasons, which included lack of protection, a gasoline engine (since the Army is moving to an all-diesel force), and a very, very limited cargo capability (which meant short endurance), the FAVs were paid off and transfered to the Air Force, which destroyed almost all of them as moving targets, operated by remote control. Two of the originals still are in use by the Army, one outside the HQ of one of the Infantry Battalions at Ft. Lewis as a static display, and the other in the Ft. Lewis base museum. A civilian bought some of the wrecked ones from the Air Force and refurbished them, selling them as a museum/novelty type of vehicle. Daniel Ladd U.S. Army ROTC Carnegie Mellon University/ University of Pittsburgh