Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Thimble Theatre comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as mid-March 1936.
Ermey suxire que os soldados do momento estaban tan impresionados cos novos vehículos que informalmente os nomearon como Eugene the Jeep, un personaxe da tira de banda deseñada Popeye creados por E. C. Segar, a mediados de marzo de 1936.