Just like IKEA furniture, some assembly required.

Sergeant: hey guys... I’m gonna need y’all to move it 3 inches to the left.

Tiny House: The Vietnam Era

I love 70s narrator's accent. It's called mid Atlantic accent IIRC

From an engineering standpoint-very cool

I like how all the ratchets are secured with cables so pvts dont lose all of them.

While testing the next level of M.U.S.T. At Fort Hood Texas in Summer 1978 my pharmacy was inside one of these units. Rather than going for delicate shelving they decided on aluminum chests waterproofing and damage proofing the medications. Those water, power air-conditioning connections came from a device called a U-pack basically a small jet engine to heat water to provide 400 and 60 Hz power, air compression to inflate the inflatable building. Solid structures were made by a honeycomb material Lite and strong. BTW I met Gary Burghoff, he was doing dinner theater in San Antonio. I asked him if he would be interested in looking at the new type of M.A.S.H. He was absolutely not interested in knowing anything about current military combat medicine kind of a sour short person to talk to. The funniest thing I saw was an India, Indian looking at American procedures. He was noticing an IV being set up which included a three-way stop cock. Coming from an overcrowded country. He asked is this a new American birth control device?

*If I had a "How To" YT channel,* I'd talk like this dude. It's ASMR, even in wartime.

It’s amazing how much they crammed into that box! It went from an unassuming trailer to a decently sized field command post, aid station, squad barracks, or whatever the US Army needed that day in Vietnam! Edit: I wish I had a few to make a quick semi-permanent campsite.

Transformers: Buildings in disguise

6 patients died awaiting setup.

I think one of these would be cool for extended length camping...

I got: “Jacking will be necessary”. Rgr that SSG

I actually know how to do that I put up many of those when we went out into the field in Germany in the early 70s

The name stands for Medical Unit Self Transportable. Only the last few seconds actually gives you an idea what the actual structure was. These little boxes aren't the "shelters" they are connections and entrances. The actual usable space looks like a quonset hut only it's made of soft material and it's inflated. The hut's ridges are wider than the metalic type, about a foot, and consist of long pockets in which are bladders which are inflated. When the bladders are inflated the hospital room gets its support. Unlike previous inflated structures the interior isn't pressurized, only the bladders. If some are damaged the others still support the structure. The bladders provide a thick insulted wall which helps insulate the interior in desert heat or arctic cold. The boxes we saw in the video can be used to interconnect several units for the size needs of the situation. A multi-ward hospital can be set up in the field in minutes. These were the MASH tents on steroids.

I love the sound of the narrators in these old films.

Ooooooookkkkkaaaayyyy KZfaq wins again....I have no idea why I watched that

This is the most relaxing military video

I remember setting up this equipment while assigned to Fort Devans MA 46th Combat Support Hospital 1978-81 as MOS 91-D (Operating Room Specialist). GOOD EXPERIENCE & GOOD FOLKS TO WORK WITH.

When I was in Desert Storm one of my jobs as an Infantry Medical transport operator with the 1st ID 3/34 Armor was transporting injured Soldiers to a MASH unit, and the med. tents where inflatables and air conditioned they where not like the old tents like you saw in the TV show MASH, they where full blown HOS. units with state of the art Med. equipment very impressive I thought. I don't believe I saw any of the M.U.S.T. shelters, by then they may have had already fazed them out, but have to mention that the US Army tends to reuse a lot of equipment as we where still using quite a bit of Vietnam era equipment, they didn't tell us but the frag vests we where issued where defiantly Vietnam era, and maybe even recycled, the one I wore I could have sworn had blood stain, but I was told it was just grease or oil or something, still was not convinced, at least we where issued the "K" pots as opposed to the steal pot, we did though have steal pots when I was in Basic, the K pots are much better. and those are my thoughts.

🙈 military flashbacks these films were hard to not fall asleep 😴 while watching

Now that's a _M.U.S.T._ have. I'll see myself out.

In the mid 1970’s and 80’s the USAF would connect four of these together with their inflatable roofs. They would then house TACC’s and DASC’s. About four hours and twenty airmen (60 Army) to complete the assembly. Then two deuce and a half’s would bring ginormous camouflage bundles that required two more hours of hanging. Upon completion , ground power would connect two-8 turbine generators in series to provide communications power. You could here these jet turbines two miles away. Then, like a sick IKEA project, tear down would be the reverse of assembly. And yes, icy cold and tropical heat made assembly completely worthwhile . Naturally, all this came with a check list for assuring correct assembly. Don’t think the ruskies could spot these in actual conflict!

I wonder how many of these are still in storage, somewhere, and forgotten. They still could be put to good use today, in civilian service ...

3am reccomend, and watched the whole thing. 👍🏼 This was sweet!

Very similar to the expanding shipping container units frequently featured on YT. Very cool thanks!

Simply amazing! The amount of effort that goes into designing all these components, and then building, training, and maintaining everything. The US is truly prepared for everything. Does anyone have knowledge/ footage of our modern equivalent?

Why did this pop up in my recommended section?

Anyone else find this more enjoyable to watch at 2X speed?

*_"Construction complete."_*

We were still working out of a more modern version of these on the flight line in Korea on Camp Stanley in '04. The S.P.A.M.

Okay, so where do i get one? Seriously i want one now.

*Who thought it was inflatable?* ...and filled with fuel. I sure the hell didn't!

I'll just stick with my Winnebago thank you.

Water and electricity that close together, brilliant!

Interesting to see so many metal parts. So that's what it was like before plastic became popular.

Makes you really appreciate pop out campers nowadays

Are there even any of these left in the world, yet I watch the whole video

Wow, great timing

I would love to have a camper that folds out like this. I like the hard surfaces instead of the cloth material that pop up campers have.

Love the cartoon back ground musical

6:15am and my dead ass is watching these videos. Why are they just interesting to watch with a cup of coffee?

I would like one.

Dude I want one of these to live in. Cheap living man. Relatively simple to assemble and fix.

At the end. "It is now ready for shipping"

This shelter is a must!

Awesome, wish I could get one.

I want one!!! Waaayyyy better than those half wood, half oilcloth cabin things.

These things would be perfect for camping or survival

It would be a very nice portable food stand

I would love to have one of those shelters

god damn that pitch shifting sounds so good at the start

Ламповая американская военщина. Классика!

This is dated 1971, but these things probably go back to 1960s

Cool.that thingy is perfect.

I remember wearing those uniforms 👍

Isn't that something. Done all by hand,no power tools, basic hydraulics, no computers, basic wiring, and good old steel hardware. It's like something out of a Fallout game

Good shelter for windy dusty days on the playa

Wish the army still had those

Good idea Yanks top job

The CASF in Kandahar was a MUST shelter

Found one of these in the woods in nw montana. Suspicious...

A must for any army

I would buy one of these and use it as a tiny home

This seems to be for hazmat stuff but I would love to own something like this

Our hospital was all fraim tents in Desert Storm. I don't remember running water in those tents. They did have AC. We still lived in a general purpose large.

Ah.. camping in the 70's. Those were the days!

And a wet bar? Wow! Shelter ten people, big help... oh? A remote officers bar!!! Yes!!!

The music is intense.

Woow it looks good for car tent

Very precisely

That's rad.

Holy shit this thing keeps having more fold out shit, pretty impressive

Good to know I was sleeping in a 1970s shelter in 2008

Good old days innovation

Love to have one, get deer camp.

KZfaq: It's always 4:30 in the morning somewhere time to watch this!

This will reach a million views soon... #KZfaqAlgorithm

8:45 That air ducting it's like some kind of horrifying H.R Giger artwork......

This is what they live in on Mars lmao

I would actually love to live in one of those (by myself though)

In just 1,046,865 fast and easy steps you’re got a shelter

Who needs a weather pod. I'll use one of these at the next spring little league game.

Good of Sherman Potter to narrate this.

What was the 400Hz power for ? I know it was used in aircrafts, bu on the ground ? Second, the drainage line seem to have really small ID, was it like vacumed ?

Amazing how our ancestors had thought this through years ago before our time

We still use these

What is a 400 cycle power cable? Seen a lot of stuff in industry, never heard of 400 cycles. Went to 120 cycles with a motor once and thought it might explode. Must be some top secret American Military stuff.

I do believe it's called a merws unit (modular expanding rigid wall shelter) at least in the Marine Corp

Thank God this is the army version at least we know you don't need a masters degree in engineering to setup! Like to see the star wars version!

Why did I just watch 9 mins worth of this.

Cool

I kinda want one now

The original Forts USA shelters.

I want one!

Yeah I'm sure they really enjoyed deploying these things in sweltering tropical conditions or in windy subzero temperatures. Must have been nice in freezing rain or desert dust conditions.

Ahh good to see yt recommendations are still as broken as ever

This thing is fucking sweet!!!

the humble beginnings of the tiny house movement

Alaskan bush people show should buy a few of these