National Guard truck markings..

Roy Suomi · Apr 19, 2009

I recently bought a M1008 Chevy truck from Gov,t surplus...The truck is marked ILNG9N inside the doors....I've got the ILNG part [Illinois National Guard].....What's the 9N stand for ???

RayP(MI) · Apr 19, 2009

A guess, year amd month of purchase? Donno!

Roy Suomi · Apr 19, 2009

Don't think so..It's an '86

Greenday · Apr 19, 2009

Its the goverment, I does'nt have to make sense!

Roy Suomi · Apr 19, 2009

S'pose you're right..Never thought of that..."My Bad"!!!!

Harold Hubbard · Apr 19, 2009

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DH in Carolina · Apr 19, 2009

The 9N was probably the truck number for a unit.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2009

Most likely a state inventory control number. I was a motor sargent in the Texas Guard. Ours were marked TXNG then unit marking and truck number.Example TXGN 249thSig HQ100

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2009

(quoted from post at 04:26:23 04/19/09) I recently bought a M1008 Chevy truck from Gov,t surplus...The truck is marked ILNG9N inside the doors....I've got the ILNG part [Illinois National Guard].....What's the 9N stand for ???

Usually an ID# either from the unit to keep track of maintenance etc. Or for the place they were stored before sale or preped for sale. For instance, IL NG turned in trucks from different armories across the State and assigned each unit a letter of the alphabet and they preped/marked the trucks accordingly (9N being the 9th truck preped by the unit designated N). Boy....did I ever hate them things................. Probably a good truck if you strip the extra junk that made it a military vehicle (extra alternator, radio mounts, etc). Getting rid of that nasty a$$ diesel motor and putting in a gasser would probably work wonders for it. Never saw one rust in the years that I fooled with them though.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2009

The M1009 made a great dust remover for the road. Roll down the back window and it would fill with dust in seconds. Worst thing the Army tried to do was use these things.The first year my division had the things we lost 45 going to summer camp. Had wreckers running day and night dragging the things in.

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