I'm looking for any info on a wheeled vehicle we had at Ft.Hood,2nd AD in the mid 70's. We called it a "GOER" and it wasn't green at the time. It looks like the picture of the 2HEMTTCargog1. Any info about the GOER is a start. I heard it didn't go green because of too many hydraulic problems and driving instability. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I know exactly what a HEMTT is, but I've never heard it called a GOER...was it used differently than a normal HEMTT?

Most of the pictures of HEMTT I see are 8x8, but there is 1 of a "2HEMTTCargog1" that is a 4x4. This looks exactly like all the GOERs we had. There was a cargo truck and a wrecker built on that chassis. Like I said, they hadn't gone green yet when I experienced them. You probably don't know what a Gamma-Goat looks like. It was the first of a new seies of trucks in the early to mid 70's. It took over for the 5/4 ton pick-up that was in use by the military. It was alumimum bodied, able to swim across rivers or lakes, was 6x6 and the front and rear wheels turned for steering. They used this a basis for larger trucks to replace the old deuce and a halfs and 5 ton trucks. All aluminum, big tires w/ low airpressure, automatic transmission vehicles that could go just about anywhere. The one distinction between them, besides size, was the goer was a 4x4,and had no suspension, so to speak. The 7 foot tall (approximately) tires were the suspension and they didn't turn for steering. That was done by a hydraulic joint between the cargo bed and the crew cab, pretty much like a backhoe or piece of farm equipment. They told us that they were 8ton truck class. We had them in our unit when we trained in the Mojave desert at Ft. Irwin in '75 and '76. Talk about KNOWING where the next war was going to be, lol.
Are all the HEMTT's in service now 8x8's or are there some 4x4's like the 2HEMTTCarcog1's in service now. Like I said, at that time they only had a cargo truck and a wrecker built on that 4x4 chassis. I hope this explains more of what I'm talking about when I say "GOER", cuz I don't even remember what it was officially called, like an M1A2, M151, except that back then it was a xm****, cuz it was still experimental and hadn't gone green yet. Hell, the A-10 was still a "XA-10" when we say demos of it destroying old M60 tanks out the in the desert. Thanks for your help and any other info on the truck. I need the info for proof for the VA., nuff said.....tyvm

WE had Goers in Germany in the late 70-early 80s in 1st AD for ammo haulers. They had a bad habit of ejecting drivers though because of bounce.
GamaGoat with a RAT rig old school LMAO

Thx for the info. If you experienced them in the late 70's and early 80's, then it must have gone green. Why, I don't know. They were junk!! I know what you mean by "the bouncing". They bounced around alot on hard pavement, let alone off road. If we're talking about the same vehicle, a 4x4 that used a hydraulic joint in between the crew cab and the cargo body for steering, then if you can remember the model designation, ie..M151, M543, M1 etc, then I'd really appreciate it. I used the wrecker version of it to load old M60 track to take to PDO into the cargo version. I rode in it the next day and on the way to property dosposal, the driver tried to go around a corner and the vehicle kept going straight for a ditch. The driver figured the hydraulic pressure was low and he put it in neutral and revved the engine. They, witnesses and the the driver, say the vehicle then jack-knifed and bounced (hopped?) down the road for about 30 feet before flipping over forward. The driver was thrown into the ditch and I was thrown onto the pavement. I don't remember anything from about 10 minutes B4 the accident until about 6 days after when I woke up in the hospital. The VA says they need a model # for the vehicle cuz they never heard of a "GOER". I showed them a picture of what I found on the internet. It said it was a "2HemttCargo1", but it didn't give a model #. They told me that type of vehicle wasn't around until sometime in the 80's. All military equipment has a model #. Everything from p38 can opener up to M1A1 tank. So, if you or anybody can remember a model #, I'd really appreciate it so I'd have something more concrete to take to them. TYVM

I googled GOER, vehicle, it took all of 5 seconds. It was the M520.
The HEMTT replaced the GOER.

TYVM. I'm not that smart, the accident caused me to lose part of my brain, the common sense part, and didn't think of that. ergo when I was involved w/it, it was a XM520. Again THANKS ALOT