You can HEAR the damn things long before you SEE them so what is the point of camouflaging them? ?ĭavid, I’m thinking no Gamma Goats at all ever made their way to Viet of the Nam.īut, per a paragraph in your linked article, the only thing (IMO) a Gama Goat was good for was this: Is there anything worse than putting along at 25 mph on the Autobahn on a hot day for hours and hours and hours? I think it took us nearly 8 hours to get to our field site near Schneeberg.Īfter that, the MI Battalion commander decreed that for the movement back to home station, the Gama Goats would go separately, accompanied (of course!) by the motor pool’s wrecker and contact maintenance vehicle since a breakdown was virtually inevitable.īTW I never understood why gama goats were painted camouflage. We had a field exercise out near the CZ border and the convoy from Katterbach (about 20 miles West of Nuernberg) was agonizingly slow – all because we had to go at the speed of the slowest vehicle – the Gama Goat! ?īack in about 1987 when I was in Germany, our MI battalion was, I’m pretty sure, the last unit in USAREUR to have Gama Goats for some of their intercept vans. I’m pretty sure the idea for Gama Goats was a Soviet operation to cripple the mobility of our mechanized forces. Now for his actual military service records obtained under the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act from the National Personnel Records Center.ĭecoration, Awards: Army Lapel Button, Army Service Ribbon, M16 Sharpshooter Badge, Parachute Badge, Army Good Conduct Medal
But here are some of the claims he made in social media
In a story about his daughter, the Star News Online referred to him as a combat veteran. He claims that he was a special forces qualified soldier in a Long Range Reconnaissance Platoon unit at Fort Bragg. Our friends at Green Beret Posers Exposed sent us their work on James Alan Halstead.