Gee Bill, your proposed lineup is pretty harsh. I was never in the service
and I LIVE for HMV's....showing more interest in them than many former
servicemen, governmental entities or other just-plain-folks that I know.
(Not more interest than everybody by a long shot....but most) On the other
hand, I have been in law enforcement for just shy of 20 years....serving the
public longer than most guys EVER spent in the military. It don't
necessarily mean the world owes me anything. On the other hand, my money is
a green as anyone else's.
I will add that I really feel bad that you showed such interest in an HMV
only to be given the run-around by the pencil-necks. I think we all have
been there or are going to be there more than once. It's a sad
story.....DRMO's seem to be a lot of baloney, no matter how we slice it.
TJ
-----Original Message-----
From: William R. Benson <Benson@eqe.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] beating a dead horse
>
>
>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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