From: JEFF HAIN-MATSON (flmv@flmv.net)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 11:58:23 PST
Ok, here is the reason that the ambulance residue sold:
nsn 231000TRUCKAM is what is was turned in to the drmo under, if they want to
be on the ball they can challenge the turn in info, or they can go with the flow
and pass it on to gov. liq.
Since i am sure that nsn 231000TRUCKAM is not on the demill list that is why it
made it to sale.
Same with the 2 bodies out west, nsn 251000TRUCKBO also is not going to be found
on the demil list!
simple as that.
Now if everybody makes enough noise about it, I'm sure that DRMS / DLA might
exercise there right to take back sold property!!
jeff
chance wolf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
>
> > Sometimes I like to be proven wrong and this is no exception. (I hate
> being
> > right all of the time!) I was thinking the same thing when I saw this
> item
> > for sale. This is also a first time for this type of item to have come
> out
> > of GL or whatever they call themselves today. I have seen much worse
> units
> > available with barely a frame and some civilian at the DRMO or GL is
> afraid
> > which is all of the time.
>
> Through the grapevine, I understand the GL ad featuring that HMMWV was
> circulated among the GL outfits at a few other major bases which are still
> being told that nothing resembling a HMMWV body or frame part can be sold.
> It was also wryly noted that the HMMWV auction didn't even have an EUC
> requirement. Apparently the local GL offices at the various bases are
> subject to the whim of the DRMS office at that particular base in and above
> any national DRMS requirements, which leads to some interesting variation.
> One guy categorized it as "frustrating" and mentioned they "should be able
> to sell" scads of perfectly good stuff they currently (local policy) have to
> send off to the shredder.
>
> Another thing I noticed on the GL site Friday was a Flash presentation
> featuring a bunch of M35s being auctioned off back East (closed Friday, I
> think.) In this little Flash movie, they drive various surplus deuces into
> the middle of the holding yard, show details of the outside and inside, and
> reel off the spects to potential bidders. The most interesting part was the
> narrator reading off a list of possible uses for ex-military trucks, and
> while some were sort of generic swords-into-ploughshares type things, he
> actually, physically mentions "military vehicle collectors and restorers"
> (paraphrased.) Might still be up on the GL site if anyone cares to look,
> and I think I have it archived on my office computer for anyone who can't
> find it on the GL site.
>
> People complain about GL quite a bit, but at least GL corporate realizes
> there *is* a military vehicle collectors hobby out there, where it seems
> DRMS is happy sitting in various levels of comfortable chairs thinking happy
> thoughts about their retirement pensions while cluelessly slaughtering
> fleets of perfectly good vehicles in some sort of permanent state of
> institutional paranoia. At least *someone* got a HMMWV to restore out of
> the deal, so cheers to whichever GL and DRMS employees gave their heads a
> shake when it came to assessing the demil category in a realistic, sensible
> fashion.
>
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