From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 19:35:17 PDT
At 10:29 PM -0400 5/28/02, Doc Scheffler wrote:
>The FMTV family has been a disaster since it's inception. A product of a
>company that never built any vehicles before the Army contract, your tax
>dollars have been used to bail them out so that they could repair them
>enough so that units could convoy them down the highway at speeds greater
>than 40 MPH.
Didn't S&S make other types of vehicles before? Like Airfield
handling, construction and other types of kit?
>
>
>The Marines bought the Oshkosh tactical truck. For what we have spent in
>total on the FMTV family, we could have too.
Which are not Airportable via C130 as I recall. One of the product
requirements as I understand it.
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