TB-43-0209
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY TECHNICAL BULLETIN
COLOR, MARKING, AND CAMOUFLAGE PAINTING OF MILITARY VEHICLES, CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
OCTOBER 1990
CHANGE 1
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(6)
Division Support Command DSC
(7)
Army Posts, Camps and Stations.
See AR
310-50.
(8)
Army Depots and Arsenals.
See AR 310-
50.
(9)
Reception Center RC
(10)
Replacement
Training
Center
RTC,
preceded by appropriate service designation shown in 1
below.
(11)
Battalion or Squadron organic to a larger
force.
Arabic
numeral
designating
the
battalion/squadron, followed by a slash (1), followed by
the Arabic numeral designating the larger force, followed
by the appropriate service designation shown in 1 below.
(12)
Other
Intermediate
Command,
Organization or Activity.
Appropriate and nonconflicting
letters, and where applicable, numerals to properly
identify the Command, Organization or Activity.
See AR
310-50.
j. The third markings, which will appear on the
right side in the unit markings, denotes company, battery,
or other small unit.
Typical examples are shown below:
(1) Automatic Weapons.
.............................
AW
(2) Calibration.
...........................................
CAL
(3) Collection & Classification.
...................
C&C
(4) Direct Support .
.......................................
DS
(5) Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
.............
EOD
(6) Floating Bridge.
.....................................
FLB
(7) General Supply .
...................................
GSP
(8) Heavy Equip Maintenance.
.................
HEM
(9) Inventory Control Co. (center).
..............
ICC
(10) Light Truck .
......................................
LTRK
(11) Missile .
...............................................
MSL
(12) Medium Boat.
.......................................
MB
(13) Panel Bridge.
.........................................
PB
(14) Petroleum.
..........................................
PET
(15) Reconnaissance .
....................................
R
(16) Repair Parts Supply .
..........................
RPS
(17) Service .
.................................................
SV
(18) Support.
..............................................
SPT
(19) Supply & Service.
...............................
S&S
(20) Transportation Motor Pool .
................
TMP
(21) Tire Repair .
...........................................
TR
(22) Other Units--Appropriate and non-conflicting letters,
normally not to exceed three, which will easily identify the
unit.
AR 310-50 should be used as a guide when
choosing a unit designation.
k.
The last marking on the right denotes the vehicle
number in the unit.
In tactical type units, vehicles will be
numbered in the sequence of their normal order of
march.
Vehicles in administrative use assigned to
transportation motor pools or depot operations may be
marked in any appropriate sequence.
Trailers will be marked with the same number as the
vehicle which normally tows them, preceded by the letter
T.
l.
Branch of Service.
The following symbols will be
used to denote the branch of service:
(1) Airborne.
.......................................................
ABN
(2) Airmobile .
.......................................................
AM
(3) Amphibious .
.................................................
APH
(4) Antiaircraft.
......................................................
AA
(5) Armored .
........................
Equilateral triangle with
.......................................................................
base down
(6) Cavalry .
........................................................
CAV
(7) Air Cavalry.
.................................................
ACAV
(8) Armored Cavalry .
...........
Equilateral triangle with
...........................................
base down, followed by CAV
(9) Chemical .
..........................................................
C
(10) Civil Affairs .
...................................................
CA
(11) Engineer.
.........................................................
E
(12) Field Artillery.
...................................................
F
(13) Infantry .
............
I, preceded by a dash 1 in long
(14) Mechanized.
..............................................
MCH
(15) Medical.
...........................................................
M
(16) Military Intelligence.
........................................
MI
(17) Military Police.
.................................................
P
(18) Ordnance .
......
O, preceded by a dash 1 in. long
(19) Quartermaster.
................................................
Q
(20) Signal .
.............................................................
S
(21) Transportation.
................................................
T
m.
A list of Approved Abbreviations is found in AR
310-50.
n.
Typical examples of the above markings are as
follows:
(1)
1A-X-HQ-4:
First United States Army, Hq
& Hq Co, 4th vehicle.
(2)
VII-M-X-9:
VII Corps, Med. Det, 9th
vehicle.
(3)
25-1/27-C-3:
25th Inf. Div, 1st Bn, 27th
Inf., Co C, 3d vehicle.
(4)
4-2R8-A-6:
4th Div, 2d Recon Sq of 8th
Cav, Trp A, 6th vehicle.
(5)
3-1/32-B-7:
3d Armd Div, 1st Tk Bn of 32d
Armor, Co B, 7th vehicle.
(6)
10-2F7-C-2:
10th Inf. Div, 2d Bn of 7th
FA, Btry C, 2d vehicle.
(7)
82ABN-820F-D-5:
82d Abn Div, 820th FA,
Btry D, 5th vehicle.
(8)
2-1/50-A-8: 2d Armd Div, 1st AR Bn of
50th Inf., Co A, 8th vehicle 2-BDE.
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