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    BACKWARD GLANCES

    Jan 03, 2020 5 minutes
    BY JIM ALLEN
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    JIM ALLEN

    EDITOR@FOURWHEELER.COM

    THIS IS THE MARCH ISSUE, AND MARCH 29 is Vietnam War Veterans Day, so it’s fitting to take some time to honor those veterans. This story remembers soldiers that don’t usually get much attention: truck drivers. Back in the day, they held the MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) of 64A or 64B, and besides having to master the operation of military trucks, at a certain point in the Vietnam War they also had to master solutions to being killed on the job.

    By 1967, losses being suffered by the U.S. Army Transportation Corps in Vietnam while transporting supplies via road had reached a deadly milestone. A well-coordinated attack on a 40-truck convoy in September of 1967 damaged or destroyed 30 trucks, killing 7 drivers and wounding

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