That six foot drop from the doorway suggests egress was a problem...
From the container? Main exit is in the back. Method of egress:
https://youtu.be/7N0HPjafFv4?t=340(note for context: that's a Bundeswehr recruiting-ad-campaign video in Reality-TV style from Mali)Then again that Multi truck could just put the container on the ground - though you probably better be well strapped in when it tilts it at 40-plus degrees ;)
The first one, is it basically a civilian bus painted green? maybe with kevlar plates?
It's a specialized version of a Mercedes-Benz O302 series civilian bus. There are some minor changes, mostly regarding lowered visibility (no chrome rims...) and making them cheaper by removing any sort of comfort for passengers (including changes to e.g. air flow systems in the bus).
No kevlar or any sort of armor.
They bought a couple hundred in the mid 60s, the base i was stationed at still ran its single unit in mid-2000, and it was used daily - that would be 20 years after civilian operators replaced the same series. As far as i know they went extinct when the Bundeswehr privatized operations of any civilian vehicles in their stock around ten years ago.
I used them pretty much every day, since base administration ran a bus shuttle service to the local railway station, and for peak times used this bus (e.g. back then the one with departure for base at 6:25 am...).
Here's one as an ambulance deployed in Kosovo:
The armored container replacements were bought after a SVBIED exploded next to two of these busses in Kabul in 2003. Four dead, ten seriously and 19 lightly wounded.