Home Sweet Home: Driving a Surplus Humvee Stateside

By Will Dabbs, MD

I lived out of my Humvee in the desert for weeks on end. That truck was stripped down to its bare bones—no doors, no top and no frills. I scrounged some old tent canvas to improvise a bikini top for the vehicle to help ward off the blistering sunshine. I kept a couple cases of MREs and several water cans along with extra fuel and some scant comfort gear in the back in a vain attempt to inject a little civilization into an otherwise decidedly uncivilized world.

There is no place on a GI Humvee that is conducive to sleeping. I tried literally everything. The rear fenders are too short and narrow. The hood slopes excessively. The seats could serve as implements of torture even when …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life