page_title: Jeep Gladiator (SJ)
section_title: Military versions
hierarchical_section_title: Jeep Gladiator (SJ) / Military versions
caption_attribution_description: Military ambulance Jeep M725 in Sassuolo (MO), Italy.
context_page_description: The Jeep Gladiator, Jeep Pickup or J-series is a series of full-size pickup trucks based on the large Jeep SJ platform, which was built and sold under numerous marques from 1962 to 1988. The Jeep Gladiator/Pickup design is noteworthy for remaining in production for more than 26 years on a single automobile platform generation. The Gladiator was the basis of the first post-war U.S. Army trucks designed to be civilian vehicles and adapted to military use. Numerous versions of the Jeep pickup were built in other markets, including Mexico by Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos.
  The Gladiator nameplate was revived on a midsize pickup truck based on the fourth-generation Jeep Wrangler. It was unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 28, 2018.
context_section_description: Military versions of the civilian Jeep pickup included the M715 and M725, built from 1967 to 1969. They were built under contract for nations in addition to the United States. The idea was to reduce costs by starting from a civilian truck and sharing parts with normal production-line truck, like the later “Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle” (CUCV) for the military as a 5/4 ton tactical vehicle.
  The Swedish Air Force acquired 450 Gladiator vehicles in the early 1980s. They were given the local designations Klargöringsbil 9711 and Klargöringsbil 9712, with the latter variant being equipped with a hard cargo bed top. The vehicles were modified to be used by aircraft groundcrew for mobile flight line operations in the Swedish Bas 90 system, and could carry trailers with equipment and tow aircraft. It is often informally referred to as "The Dallas Jeep".
  The Lebanese Armed Forces acquired a number of both the M715 and Gladiator SJ versions in the early 1970s, which saw extensive use during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Many of these vehicles fell into the hands of the various competing Lebanese militias, who either used them for logistical and transport operations or modified them to be used as technicals, fitted with Heavy machine guns or Anti-Aircraft Autocannons.
caption: U.S. military M725 ambulance
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