I have pretty much that same exact tent, Scuba or Madslasher will testify as I had it up last weekend at our West Coast get together. Madslasher used it saturday night, while I put my larger tent up for my family on saturday evening.It is an expedition quality tent. I mine was called the VE-25 or something like that as the model number.
A family member bought it for me about 15 years ago and I have not had a problem with it. The main difference is that mine was about $500-600 brand new.
If you can get one of these babies for $400-500, I'd highly recommend it as a solid piece of equipment. Mines a bit smaller though - 3 people at most or two comfortably with all your gear inside the tent also. I noticed on the spec sheet that mine weighs in at 10 lbs. 11 oz., while the one you posted you said weighs in at 38 lbs. I've no doubt thats a much larger tent than mine, but still expedition quality - you would be pretty comfortable in any weather in that thing with a couple of candle lanterns to warm the ambient temperature inside.
The funny story about this tent is that I brought it with me and slept in it with two others, one guy from my company and a commo guy from SF during our PLDC 'field problem' and it rained like a bitch the whole time. The instructors tried to tell me I couldn't use it, but I told them it was one of our team winter ops tents (with the white fly over it) and that we didn't have shelter halves issued to us. In the mean time the legs had mud running through their shelter half tents the whole time and we were high, dry and camouflaged with a few boughs of evergreen over the top of it. It was one of the better get-overs on the regular army during my time at 2/75.
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