The German military has Vanagons right here in the US near Washington DC, at
a facility they have near Dulles Airport. You see them on the road around
here occasionally.

US forces definitely have them.   At a US Navy base in Sicily this summer, I
saw a olive drab Vanagon with Navy stencils on it. I asked the base
commander, and indeed there are a bunch of them in Italy.

The mother load of Vanagons, however, is Bosnia. They are the primary
van/pickup vehicle there - really the most common light truck. Nothing newer
like a T4 Eurovan, though, since the war broke out before they started
building them, and after the war people are too poor to buy new units, so
the Vanagon rules.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kevin & Lisa Sellitti [SMTP:virtual-angst@HOME.COM]
        Sent:   Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:46 PM
        Subject:        Military Issue Vanagons

                I was in Barnes & Noble Today. I came across a book in the
automotive
        section that was all about VW Busses. The book didn't mention
Vanagons much.
        What caught my eye was an ex-German Army 1976 Transporter Crew Cab.
It was a
        Military issue with Blackout Curtains, Gun Mount and troops seats
(Could
        carry ten troops.) The caption said that many Transporters had been
used by
        the German Military (Most were Crews) and they were also used b the
U.N. and
        even United States Troops in Europe.
                That got me thinking..... Was the Vanagon (T3,Transporter)
used by any of
        Europe's Military Services? Or were the VW's dropped after the Type
2's? It
        would seem to me that a Syncro Crew Cab would be an natural
Replacement for
        the Type 2 Crew Cab (Especially the Syncro 16 :->. Anyone out there
have any
        info? I would love to learn more about them if they were used in
Military
        Applications. Image the weird Variants they may lurk out there.

        BTW: I saw a very nice 88? Westy parked in the Parking garage at
Sarasota
        Memorial Hospital Today (Sarasota, Fl). Is that person on this list?
I was
        impressed with how well it fit in the Garage. Looks like it had lots
of head
        room.

        Thanks,
        Kevin
        (Still no Vanagon yet! Only Vanagon envy :-(   )