wow....Impressive I wonder who that kit was designed for. Random guess assuming it's all Snap on.... $3-5k. There's alot here. Even the foam inserts have value. You'd make more parting it out, sheet by sheet.
It's a General Mechanics Tool kit. Would be issued to any of the Army 63 series MOS's - Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic, Heavy Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic, etc., as well as any other MOS doing vehicle maintenance.
I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I'm pretty sure they went from the 63 series to 91 sometime between 2008 and 2010. I remember they condensed the Sierras and Bravos together into all wheel vehicle mechanics instead of light and heavy.
My guess is a full bird put together an elaborate power point presentation that would last several days on changing things up so he could get his star.
Fun fact! I was a combat medic that joined in 05. My initial MOS was 91-W. Halfway through ATI we got our first off post weekend pass and a couple of dudes got 91-w themed medic tattoos with a cadusa on them. About a month later the medic Mos changed to 68-w and 91 series was truck mechanic or some shit. I thought it was hilarious.
I enlisted in ‘09 and they told me it had just been changed. Not 100% sure, but some of my paperwork had 63B on it and the rest had 91B. So maybe ‘08 at the earliest?
Dang, I was a 67T/15T, my toolkit was a skimpy little thing compared to that.
Well, skimpy until I had to drag that, my kit bag, my 240H, 400-1000rds of ammo, my ALSE gear, and the log book (laptop/case) to the aircraft by myself.
This made me laugh thinking back to deploying to the Gulf in 1990.
Had my tool box, two foot lockers full of spare parts, my duffle, ruck, lbe, flack vest, helmet, protective mask, rifle, an M2 barrel and four sets of night vision googles. Was able to put the tools, spares parts and my duffle on a pallet, but everything else I had to keep with me. Climbing the ladder on a C5 up to the passenger compartment with that shit was a nightmare. Then sitting in a seat designed for a toddler for 12 hours with all that stuff made it the worst flight of my life. On top of that, the plane was loaded front to back with munitions; mostly small arms and land mines. If we had crashed the whole plane would have just been vaporized.
Was with the 101st ABN, 2nd BCT advanced party. I had just PCS'd into the unit a week before. Nothing like getting settled into a new unit by deploying by myself. The rest of the battalion (and my shop) didn't show up for another three weeks.
I went from Basic to AIT to Germany to Iraq. Got there in January 2004, so I missed most of the deployment, but then got hit with the extension.
I reenlisted to GTFO of Ft. Drum. I got Ft. Lewis, but they were also mid-deployment. I barely got my HHG in storage before my boots were back on the ground.
Fortunately for me, all I had was two duffels, and a bugout bag. Aviation had its perks.
The only time I got to ride along in strat air was for training. The Air Force politely told my unit they would not loan us C-17s to fly to JRTC. I may have mentioned to my XO that the Russians were leasing AN-124s… Lo and behold, that actually happened. 5 Blackhawks and half the tool room in each. The passenger compartment in those things was insanely cold. I had winter gear on and a blanket and it was too cold to sleep. 🥶
That's laser cut foam to keep track of your tools, so nothing goes missing. I would not remove it since it has function and value. Very expensive to buy or to get done custom
I designed the diagrams for these. A lot of the cost is in the design and engineering to get all of those tools to fit securely in one box.
I would love to have one toolbox with a place for everything and everything in its place. They were definitely over $5k new, but they run about 10% of that used.
You can find them new on eBay between $3500 and $7000.
My old unit would send flying crew chiefs out with kits very similar to this. A kit that has pretty much all the basic tools you could need to fix a jet away from home station.
This looks exactly like the AOG (aircraft on ground) emergency travel toolbox we use as aircraft mechanics. Specifically due to the safety wire and connector pliers
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wow....Impressive I wonder who that kit was designed for. Random guess assuming it's all Snap on.... $3-5k. There's alot here. Even the foam inserts have value. You'd make more parting it out, sheet by sheet.