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| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Sep 30, 1964) | |||
| Mud or Stream, Goers Show They Really Go By Bob Hoyer, S&S Munich Bureau LOOK at the monster go, a soldier said as he pointed toward a heavy thick-tired cargo rig. Up hill and down hill, across water and through mud the rig rolled on. The monster the soldier was referring to is the Goer, a new transport vehicle under test by the Army. It was named to describe a vehicle family which uses large rubber tires to obtain low ground pressures and increase mobility over difficult terrain. The Goer is an all-weather, all-terrain, amphibious, air-transportable vehicle. |
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| A 7th Army unit -- the 533rd Trans Co - has been designated as the test agency. A test camp has been established on hilly terrain outside of Augsburg, Germany, with full support being rendered by the 24th Inf Div. The series of Goer tests will be completed by Dec. 15 and a full report will be submitted to the Department of the Army by Dec. 20. CAPT Paul F. Dinsmore, CO of the 533rd, said he had never seen a Goer before he was given the test assignment. His job was to train drivers and maintenance men to keep the Goer on the go. "You can teach a man the basics of driving a Goer in 50 seconds;" he said. "It's that simple." "Touch wood, but we haven't had a serious accident yet," he said. Goer manufacturers claim the vehicle is capable of climbing 10-degree slopes and has lateral articulation of 20 degrees (this latter quality enables the Goer to twist along over choppy terrain). Dinsmore and his men have been testing Goers on bleak bumpy terrain, have se; aside a steep hill climb through a woods and have built a mud hole and a small lake. The soldiers are testing two families of Goers -- an 8-ton rig and a 16-ton rig. Each family is composed of a tractor and three types of bodies -- a cargo carrier, a tanker and a wrecker. Goers have been designed to travel for extended periods at speeds of up to 31 m.p.h. The present vehicles are the third generation of Goers which date back to 1957. If the Army decides to adopt the Goer as a standard transport vehicle, a new word will have been added to the military vocabulary. |
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