From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 07:58:52 PST
So at some point either we ,the tax payers, are going
to pay for new "soft cabs" to be installed on HEMITT's
when they return from overseas or just buy new
vehicles when we donate them to the flegling Iraqi
army?
Rick
--- Jim Webster <james.webster@iomartdsl.com> wrote:
> Mike Davidsen wrote:
> > Okay, went down to Camp Lejuene this past week to
> pick up a generator
> > set for a friend of mine. While I was down there
> loading up, I noticed
> > some of the HEMTT cabs strapped down to pallets
> for auction. Now, this
> > may seem strange to me, but I have kept an eye on
> these things for a
> > while, and in the past 6 years, I have yet to see
> an auction selling a
> > complete HEMTT unit anywhere (course, I haven't
> seen all the auctions).
> > I see a lot of these cabs and forward power units
> sold surplus, but no
> > complete ones. Now, I did ask the guy who ran the
> yard at GL in
> > Lejeune, who told me he has sold 10 or 15 of the
> complete HEMTT units in
> > the past 10 years. I don't doubt him, but then
> again, where are they?
> > Why would the military surplus out the cabs,
> usually when you buy a
> > surplus cab it's attached to its frame, and sold
> as a truck. Where are
> > all the surplus HEMTTs going? Just curious...
>
> Cabs are being replaced by the armoured ones and
> shipped to Iraq.
>
> --
> TTFN
> Jim
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