All of this talk about the problems with the auctions simply illustrates this
megakludged system...
A few years ago, I identified the location of a 90% intact M274A5 Mechanical
Mule sitting on a hilltop aboard Camp Pendleton. It wasn't in a firing range,
it wasn't a target, it was just sitting there, rotting away, and despite my best
efforts, I couldn't get anybody in the hierarchy of Camp Pendleton to get up off
their donkeys and give me anything but the standard party line of "go through
DRMO" and DRMO wouldn't act on any of my request to find out how to secure the
beast. As it turns out, I went back to the site, and the mule was gone, after
sitting there for over ten years...
The situation, in a word, SUCKS!
I'm of the opinion that servicemembers should be given first crack at buying the
same trucks that they drove for so long (like my old M151A2), and then they
should be offered to non-military Federal organizations, and then to non-profit
organizations, and then to historical organizations, and then to argicultural
and municipal entities, and THEN to the great unwashed... (Those of us not
servicemembers would fall under historical organizations)...
Bill
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